In Today's Case: Jackson Blues

Tess and Conan walked to Dr Agasa's lab to see if he came up with a cure yet for Conan. Tess was hoping he had but there was a slim chance he did find a cure. A bottle Sake didn't really do much for Conan besides turn him back to Jimmy for a few minutes. Tess walked as the snow fell onto her hair melting making her hair wet. Tess looked down with her hands in her pockets deep in thought.

'I hope Dr Agasa found a cure for Jimmy. I want to see him again. I want to see him in his real body not as Conan Edogawa. I want to see him as Jimmy Kudo.' She thought. Conan was also deep in thought.

'Why does Tess have to leave now? Why can't she stay longer? She wont even be here for Christmas. I don't want her to leave. Tess is a great person… only if she knew.' Conan thought. Them standing at the door of Dr Agasa's lab took them out of their thoughts. Tess opened the door letting Conan in first. Conan stepped in. "Dr Agasa?"

"Ah. Jimmy." Dr Agasa showed his head from the corner. He blinked a few times.

"Tess remember?" Tess asked. Dr Agasa nodded his head.

"Ah yes! I remember! You dropped the Sake off yesterday." He stated. Tess nodded her head. "Anyway Jimmy the Sake might be a possible sure for you." Dr Agasa told him. Conan smiled.

"Really?" Conan asked.

"Yes, all thanks to Tess I might find you a cure. How long are you staying?" Dr Agasa asked. Tess looked down.

"One week left." Tess answered. Conan looked up at her. He really didn't want her to leave. He wanted her to stay longer. Dr Agasa looked at her funny.

"Oh, how did you find out about Jimmy?" Dr Agasa asked. Tess looked at him and smiled.

"He's got to cover up his clues he leaves behind." Tess stated as she smiled. Dr Agasa blinked not getting it. Conan sighed.

"Never mind Dr Agasa. So the Sake is a possible cure?" Conan asked. Dr Agasa nodded his head.

"Yes come and look." Dr Agasa stated. They walked to Dr Agasa's computer showing them a diagram. "Look last time you drank Sake it not only got you drunk but it rearrange your blood cells making them bigger causing your whole body to grow back to the way it was." He stated.

"So why did it only work for a few minutes?" Tess asked.

"Good question Tess. That's what I want to know. I found out that the little bit of Sake will turn you Tess into a little kid. And it will turn Jimmy back to normal. But there's a problem." Dr Agasa answered. Tess and Conan blinked.

"What?" they asked. Dr Agasa sighed.

"For Jimmy to turn back to his normal state he would have to keep taking it and taking it." Dr Agasa answered.

"And by the time he really DOES get his body back he'll be addicted to the Sake." Tess stated. Dr Agasa nodded his head. He turned himself around in his computer chair as he nodded his head again.

"Great I'll become a drug attic." Conan stated. Tess looked at him as he headed for the door.

"Don't worry Jimmy… we'll get a cure… I'll help." Tess stated. Conan stopped.

"How are you going to if you're going to be in America?" Conan asked. "You're leaving for the states Saturday." Conan added.

"That gives me a week to help out." Tess told him. Dr Agasa nodded his head.

"Yeah Jimmy, you're going to need all the help you can get." Dr Agasa told him. Conan walked right out the door. Tess sighed.

"Thanks Dr Agasa." Tess stated as she walked to the door.

"You're welcome Tess." Dr Agasa stated. Tess waved goodbye she opened the door then left.

'What help can she give me if she's going to leave Saturday? I doubt we'll get anywhere by then and I doubt that they went to America when they tried to kill us a couple weeks ago. I'm going to miss her when she's gone…'

"Jimmy!" Tess yelled. Conan's thoughts were stopped by Tess. He turned around to look at her. he watched as the snow underneath her feet made a crunching noise as she ran toward him. "Why did you leave like that?" Tess asked. Conan looked away. Tess blinked. "Look, if you're upset that I'm leaving to go back to the states…" she paused. "I rather stay here and help you." Tess stated. Conan looked up at her. "Really there's no other place I rather be then with you." Conan blinked confused.

'What did she say?' Conan asked himself.

'What did I say to him?' Tess asked herself as she realized what she had said. Tess and Conan stared at each other for a while. Conan took a while to let the words settle in. Tess placed her hands in her pockets. She sighed as Conan and she still stared at each other. Conan smiled lightly. He turned around then walked back to Richard's office. Tess looked up. 'Why couldn't it be 2 years and not 1?' she asked herself. She looked forward then followed Conan.

"We can't leave without Conan and Tess!" Rachel yelled. Tess opened the door. Conan and Tess stared into the room to see Rachel yelling at Richard.

"Oh there you are. Come on I got a case!" Richard yelled as he walked out of his office all proud of himself. Tess looked at Rachel.

"Where's the case?" Tess asked. Rachel smiled.

"Somewhere down town." Rachel answered. Tess nodded her head. Rachel grabbed her coat. Tess closed the door once Conan and Rachel were half way down the stairs.

'I'll miss this place…' Tess thought to herself.

"TESS! COME ON!" Richard yelled. Tess looked down.

"I'M COMING!" Tess yelled back at her uncle. She walked down the stairs. Tess got into the car. The back seat as usual with Conan. Tess and Conan as usual looked out their windows without saying a word.

'Things would have been fine if she didn't show up. For a while it was a competition, but now… I don't know what it is. If it's what I think it is then… it's just an uncommon emotion. That's what it is. But I don't want to spend my last days with Tess out on cases. I want to spend it with her. But how?' Conan stared blankly out the window. Just… staring. He lost track of himself as he dug deeper and deeper into his emotions trying to figure out if his emotions are right. He thought he had figure them out when Tess got out of the hospital but he guesses he didn't now that he's angry that she has to go and sad about her leaving him. He was confused. The more and more he dug deeper into his emotions the more confused he got.

'Why now? I wanted to stay longer. But… if I never came here I would have never got the chance to see Rachel or meet Jimmy. Well someone had to come here and stop Zach. Sometimes I'm thinking twice about that I took this job. I don't want to leave Jimmy. Parting with him is going to be the hardest thing I've ever done. Even my training to become an FBI agent wasn't as hard it it's going to be to part with Jimmy. I don't know what's going on. I never really liked little kids. But when I found out the Conan was Jimmy I had the sudden urge to protect him. I don't know why. Why are my emotions playing me like this?' Tess's thoughts continued about Jimmy and how it was going to be hard to part with him. Her emotions were playing the same game that Jimmy's emotions were. What were they going to do?

Then the car came to a stop. "We're here!" Richard yelled. Tess and Conan snapped back to reality. Even though the reality they were living was the one they didn't want to live. Tess glanced at Conan as Conan glanced at her with their eyes made contact. Tess looked away as she got out of the car. Conan sighed as he exited the car.

'Should I let her figure out the case?' Conan asked himself. As Tess shut the car door she placed her hands into her pockets.

'Should I let him solve the case? It's what he deserves.' Tess thought to herself. Tess and Conan walked up the walk way to the house. Richard and Rachel were already in the house. As Tess and Conan entered they saw the murder scene. Blood everywhere, on the walls on the floor on the furniture. It was everywhere. Tess looked around. She's never seen a room like this besides the time they went on a vacation with Sirena.

"Tess." Inspector Maguire called. Tess looked forward as well as Conan did. There stood Rachel in the middle of the room standing with Inspector Maguire and Richard. They walked over.

"What happened here?" Conan asked. Tess nodded her head.

"That's what I want to know." Tess stated. Inspector Maguire sighed.

"It's the worse thing we've seen yet. Mr. Jackson a billionaire was murdered." Inspector Maguire stated.

"So why isn't he living in a mansion and not in a house?" Rachel asked.

"Well, he didn't want anyone to know that he was billionaire." Inspector Maguire stated.

"Where's the body?" Richard asked. Tess, Rachel, and Conan nodded their heads. Inspector Maguire sighed. He waved his fingers calling an officer over. The officer ran over holding a black trash back.

"Look for yourselves." Inspector Maguire stated. The officer opened to bag. Tess, Conan, Richard, and Rachel looked into the bag. Their mouths dropped.

'Who would do that to the man?!' Conan asked himself as he backed away. Rachel placed her hand on her mouth.

"Oh my…" Rachel didn't even get to finish her sentence she was that disgusted. Tess shook her head.

"That's wrong." Tess stated.

"Who would want to do that?" Richard asked. Inspector Maguire shrugged.

"That's just the meanest way to kill someone." Tess stated. (Not going to describe the body… it's to bloody and gross) Tess placed her hand on her forehead. "Do we have any suspects?" Tess asked. Inspector Maguire sighed.

"Only a couple…" he stated. He pointed over to the far wall away from everything where a fifteen year old girl stood with her hands on her younger brother's shoulders and a woman. "The woman is Mr. Jackson's wife Mrs. Jackson. The fifteen year old girl is Kayra is daughter and the boy is Christian." Inspector Maguire stated. Richard looked over.

"Only three?" Richard said in disappoint. Tess shrugged her shoulders then she crossed her arms.

"Well, either on of them probably killed him." Tess stated.

"But why would someone kill Mr. Jackson like that?" Rachel asked. Richard looked at her.

"Probably for his money." Richard answered. Rachel nodded her head. Tess glanced down at Conan. He was till shock from what they saw. Richard looked at them all. He walked over and begun to question them as Inspector Maguire and Rachel followed. Tess got down on her knee. She placed her hand on Conan's shoulder.

"Hey," she called, "are you okay?" Tess asked. Conan looked at her as he closed his mouth. He nodded his head.

"Yeah, just in a little state of shock that's all." Conan told her. Tess smiled.

"Good, then you better get going on this case. I'll let you solve it." Tess told Conan. Conan blinked a few times. "I want to see you do your work." Tess added as she smiled. Conan nodded his head. Tess watched as Conan walked around looking at everything.

'Thanks Tess.' Conan thought. 'Well first things first. I want to know what happened here. How did the blood get everywhere?' Conan asked himself. He then thought about the case that was just like this on their vacation with Sirena.

"See, that's what everyone thinks. They think that they struggled around the room. But there's another possibility. They could have been hit or stabbed in their main veins causing the blood to go everywhere." Tess told Conan that one night. Conan nodded his head. He looked around some more. He then entered in the kitchen. Where no one was looking. He looked on the counter tops everywhere he could possibly reach or see. He had noticed that there was a stake knife missing. Conan placed his finger and thumb on his chin in an L shape.

"Hmm… I wonder why there's a stake knife missing.' Conan thought.

"Hey!" Conan jumped as he turned around to see Kayra. "What are you doing here?!" she yelled. Conan jumped again.

"Umm… I was, getting a drink." Conan told Kayra. Kayra stood facing Conan's with her side. She pointed back in the living room where the murder had happened.

"March!" she yelled. Conan walked right out of the room.

'Dang… she's scary…' Conan thought. He glanced as her as she entered the kitchen. Conan watched her. She walked into the room. Grabbed a cup then filled it up with water. She drank it placing the cup in the sink. Conan watched her. But before she could notice him. Conan hid behind the wall. Kayra walked right past Conan then to Richard, Inspector Maguire, and Rachel again. Conan sighed. 'That was close…' he thought. Conan watched Tess. He then looked to his left to see a floor board that was sticking out of the floor. He walked over to it. Lucky for him the floor board was behind a table where no one would see him. Conan lifted it up to see a purse. He raised an eyebrow. The purse looked like it belonged to a fifteen year old girl. Conan went to reach for the purse when something stabbed him in his hand. 'Ow!' Conan pulled his hand away. He looked to see a splinter. He pulled it out. Conan looked at the floor board holding it up with his other hand. The Floor board had markings like it was forced up. He ran his finger across it knocking off any loose splinters.
He then knew what had happened. Conan smiled. He placed the floor board back down. Conan looked over at Tess. 'Thanks Tess for letting me solve this case.' Conan thought.

"CAN'T YOU SEE MY DAUGHTER IS GRIEVING OVER HER FATHER'S DEATH?!" Mrs. Jackson yelled. Richard went to take a step forward to get in Mrs. Jackson's face. Tess and Rachel pulled him back. Tess looked at Mrs. Jackson.

"That still doesn't give her the right to yell at my uncle." Tess stated. Kayra crossed her arms.

"Come on. He has no right asking these questions." Kayra told Tess with an attitude. Tess let go of Richard. Now someone needed to hold her back.

"Hey! Listen when you're suspected of a murderer he can ask any questions he wants!" Tess yelled.

"Tess stop." Rachel said as she placed her hands on her shoulders. Conan ran to the door way that was in between the kitchen and the living room. Conan flipped up his stun watch. He aimed and shot shooting a stun needle in Richard's neck. Richard placed his hand behind his neck.

"How did I know that was going to happen?" Richard asked himself. He walked backward hitting the wall. Tess looked over at him. She knew that Conan had figure out the case. She smiled. Richard was now leaning up against the wall with his arms crossed.

"Don't worry about it Tess." Richard stated. "I know who the murderer is anyway." He added. Tess smiled as she crossed her arms. Inspector Maguire took a step forward.

"Who is it Richard?" Inspector Maguire asked.

"Well since you asked it's no other then Kayra herself!" Richard yelled. Everyone looked at Kayra. Kayra backed up a little.

"No it wasn't me there's no way I would kill my own father!" Kayra yelled.

"Well I have proof." Richard said.

"Where Dad?" Rachel asked.

"Over there by that table." Richard said Tess looked over. She walked over as she saw spotted the floor board stinking up. Kayra's eye widened.

"Here?" Tess asked.

"Yes." Richard answered. Tess got on her knees. She pulled up the floor board. "Now inside is a purse. Pull it out." Tess reached in and pulled out the purse. She placed it on the table. "Now Tess, open the purse." Tess unzipped the purse opening it. Tess's eyes widened as she pulled out a knife. "Now if you look at floor board you'll see markings." Tess looked.

"Yeah." Tess stated.

"Those markings show that the floor board was forced up. And the marking show that it was opened with a knife." Richard stated. Tess picked up the knife. She looked at it then at the floor board and back at the knife.

"He's right." Tess stated.

"Now…"

"Stop!" Kayra yelled. They all looked at her again. "I did kill my father." She told them all.

"Why sister?" Christian asked. Kayra looked away.

"Because he was cheating on mom. He said if I didn't be quiet about it he was going to put an end to me. So before he got a chance to I put an end to him." Kayra told everyone.

"And you did it in the most disgusting way Kayra." Richard said. "You're off to jail."

Next Time on Case Closed: "I didn't do it!" This is Tess's final night here Tokyo. She meets an old friend she hasn't seen in years and invites her over. But a murder happens and Tess in the main suspect. Conan will do anything to prove that she didn't do it. What will happen?

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