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Chapter 3: A Case Gone Cold
After Conan and Tess had returned from the gaming company and told Jade that they were sorry for leaving her. Tess went straight up the stairs and into her office her parents had set up for her.
She sat herself down into her chair pulling a drawer open. She searched through the files of cold cases. She picked up the very last one. The murder of a popular politician, Jack McSail. The governor of New York. Her own governor was murdered and now everyone has to vote again.
She looked through the file looking over the clues that they found. Nothing really important besides the poison that was used to kill him. The poison was traced back to Japan. That's when they found out all of these murders had one thing in common, the killer comes from Japan. But why would a killer from Japan come to America and kill off their political leaders? Tess was surprised that they didn't go after the President but she shouldn't jinx him yet.
"Tess?" came a voice by the door. She turned in her chair and looked to see Conan standing there with his hands in his pockets.
"Hey Jimmy," Tess said as she turned back around, "did you get in touch with Rachel?" Tess asked as she took notes on the case.
Conan nodded his head, "yeah I did. She said that I should come visit you since you and I were so close when you visited." Conan answered. Tess smiled. Little did Rachel know was that Conan really was with her and not his parents.
"Well, I guess you don't want to disappoint her." Tess said as she looked back at Conan who was smiling.
"I guess not." Conan said. He walked forward a little. "What are you doing?" Conan asked. Tess glanced at him who was now standing next to her.
"Oh nothing really, going over the clues on the last case that went cold." Tess said as he voice trailed off taking down a note.
"Like all the other ones?" Conan asked as he looked down at the opened drawer. Tess nodded her head.
"Yeah. What I want to know is why this murderer would come from all the way from Japan to kill off our political leaders." Tess said as she looked down at Conan.
"You're right, it doesn't make any sense." Conan stated as he placed his hand onto his chin. The phone started to ring on Tess's desk. She leaned forward and picked it up.
"Hello? Oh hello there Jake, what do you want? What!" Tess sighed as she placed her hand onto her forehead. "Alright me, Conan, and Jade will be there soon. See ya." Tess hung up. She then leaned back into her chair sighing.
"What happened?" Conan asked.
"Another murder that's what." Tess answered as she stood up off of her chair walking to a closet in her officer room.
"Who was murdered this time?" Conan asked.
"Another political leader," Tess said softly, "her name is Julia Haggard. She was next up in line for the governor seat. Of course she would have to run against someone, but I guess that's not going to happen." Tess added as she searched through the closet.
"Tess." Conan said. Tess had grabbed onto a holster belt as she turned and looked at Conan.
"Yeah?" she asked.
"What were you going to say to me when were interrupted by that phone call?" Conan asked. Tess blinked a few times. She knew what she was going to ask him. But she didn't want to tell him right now. She was going to tell him later.
"You know Jimmy? I forgot what I was going to say." Tess answered him as she gave him a fake smile. She hoped that he didn't see through her smile like he always did.
Conan shrugged, "Alright." He said. Tess wrapped her holster around her waist and clipped the clip together. Her gun rested on her right side as she put some bullets into the pocket next to her gun. "You're using real bullets now?" Conan asked.
Tess nodded her head, "yeah, I have for a while now. I was given permission." Tess said as she opened the door. Conan walked out. Tess looked back at the file on her desk. She then left the room.
Jade was down stairs sitting on the couch when Tess and Conan came down the stairs. Jade turned around to see Tess's gun wrapped around her waist. She blinked a few times as she stood up.
"That was my Chief that called." Tess said as she picked up her leather jacket off of the coat hanger.
"Okay, what happened?" Jade asked. Tess slipped on her jacket as Conan answered.
"Another politician was murdered." Conan answered.
"Julia Haggard." Tess said. She walked into the kitchen where her mother was usually be but she wasn't.
"Your mother went out shopping." Jade said with a smile. Tess looked at Jade and shrugged her shoulders.
"Why didn't she come upstairs to tell me?" Tess asked.
"She said she didn't want to bother you from your work." Jade answered. Tess nodded her head. Her mother knew that the only time she went up stairs was to go to sleep or to work in her office and that's what she did.
"Um, alright. Come on let's go." Tess opened the door as Jade and Conan left. Tess shut the front door and locked it. She turned back around to see Jade and Conan standing on the side walk. "We're not walking there." Tess said. Jade and Conan looked at each other as they watched Tess walk around back. They followed. Their mouths dropped open as Tess walked toward a light blue convertible mustang. Tess stuck the key into the key hole and opened it. She looked at Jade and Conan. "What?"
"You're going to drive that?" Conan asked as Jade walked forward. Tess nodded her head as she got into the driver seat.
"Yeah. I have my FBI license so I'll be fine." Tess said. Conan didn't know if he should get into the car with her. It might dangerous due to the fact that it was Tess who was driving it. Tess could be a dangerous driver at times.
"This is a nice car, is it yours?" Jade asked as she got in to the seat next to Tess. Tess nodded her head, looking over at Jade.
"Yup. My parents bought it for me. Come on Conan!" Tess shouted out. Conan hesitated but he walked forward. He got into the back and quickly buckled himself into the seat. Tess looked back at him as she slightly giggled. "Still don't trust me Conan?" Conan didn't answer. Tess started up the car and took off.
"So Julia Haggard, who was she?" Jade asked as she hung her arm out the rolled down wind with the wind whipping her ebony black and crimson red hair. Tess smiled as she reached down into the seat between her and Jade lifting up a pair of sun glasses placing them onto her face.
"Julia Haggard was next to be governor. That is, if she won of course." Tess said, "she had to run against someone else." She added as she came to a stop at a red light.
"But not any more." Jade said as she looked forward watching the lines of cars pass by. Conan leaned forward placing his hands onto Tess and Jade's seats, keeping him in between them slightly.
"Who do you think killed her?" Conan asked. Tess looked back at Conan.
"Sit back and then I'll tell you." Tess said smiling. Conan huffed as he sat back. Tess looked forward. "The same person who murdered the others." Tess answered as the car took off right when the light turned green. "There's one thing that all the murders have in common." Tess said as she turned the corner.
"Which is?" Jade gestured to her to continue. Tess looked at Jade as she quickly put her eyes back onto the road. She couldn't take her eyes off due to this was New York City she was driving in.
"The murderer came from Japan. Every murder weapon that was found was traced back to Japan but the trail stopped there. That's why my Chief got a hold of you and I got a hold of Conan." Tess answered. Jade looked forward nodding her head.
"Who was Julia Haggard supposed to run up against in the governor seat?" Jade asked as Tess stopped at a gas station.
"Regular." Tess said to the man. She then looked back at him. "Full it up." She added. Tess looked at Jade. She blinked when she saw in Jade's eyes that she was waiting for something. "What?"
Conan sighed. "Jade asked who Julia Haggard was going to run against." Conan said. Tess looked back at him and then at Jade.
"Just a common man. He's extremely good at politics though. His name is Maxwell Jones the Third. He's common in New York since he was on the news a lot." Tess answered as she handed the gas man his money and got onto the road again.
"Oh." Jade said as she looked out her rolled down window. Conan looked at Jade. Tess was right. This girl did seem a little too happy.
Tess was right, this girl does seem a little to happy. I wonder... Conan thought to himself. Tess's cell phone started to ring and that broke all three of them out of their thinking. Tess leaned forward as she took one hand off of the wheel then stuck it into her back pocket. She pulled out a flip phone. She flipped it open with her thumb the placed it against her ear.
"Hello? Jake! Hold your horses we're coming alright! Yes the hotel she was staying at! I was getting gas for my car it was running out, alright goodbye." Tess hung up the phone then placed it in between her and Jade. "Geez, that man's got to stop." Tess said shaking her head.
"Partner issues?" Jade asked. Tess nodded her head. "Don't worry about that. My partner does the same thing."
"How old?" Tess asked as she came to another red light.
"22 I think." Jade answered.
"Really? Same age as Jake. That's kind of funny." Tess said as she glanced back at Conan to see he was in deep thought. Tess looked forward as she finally got going.
Tess pulled up by the hotel. She looked up to see it was a Court Yard Mariet Hotel. A 7 starred hotel. The best in the city. Tess got out leaving her door opened as she pulled her seat forward for Conan to get out. There was a 'do not cross' sign in front of the hotel keeping people back. Tess, Jade, and Conan pushed their way through till they go to the front line. Tess pulled out her badge from her back pocket. Then showed it to the officer. He nodded his head letting her pass. Jade then showed hers and she was able to pass. But not Conan.
"I'm sorry you cannot pass." He said. tess looked back.
"He's with me." Tess shouted back to the officer. He looked back then nodded his head letting him pass. Conan ran up to her.
"Thanks." He said. Tess smiled shaking her head.
"Don't worry about it." Tess said in return as they pressed on. Jade was waiting by the elevator. She had already pressed the button. They got in. Once Jade heard the elevator music she started to move her head from the right to left to the music. Conan and Tess stared at her funny as the elevator finally came to a stop and she danced her way out. Tess and Conan looked at each other blinking. They shrugged their shoulders then walked forward. "Alright, room 234." Tess said as she pressed on.
"222. 223. 224. 225. 226. 227. 228. 229. 230. 231. 232. 234." Jade counted. Tess opened the door to see cops taking pictures of the body of Julia Haggard. She laid on her stomach with blood dripping out of her mouth and her eyes wide open. There was a man sitting on the bed talking to Jake and Mr. Johnson. Jake finally turned to see Conan, Tess, and Jade.
"There you are!" he shouted as she stormed toward her. Tess looked at Jake. "He wouldn't say anything about this!" Jake shouted. Tess sighed.
"Because you're probably pushing him." Tess said to her loud partner. Jake looked at Tess. Tess walked past him toward the man sitting on the bed. She looked at him as she urged the other officers to back away. She got down onto her right kneeing looking at the man who seemed to be pretty out of it. "Sir?" Tess called to him. Not even his eyes flinched to look at her. "Sir, can you tell me your name?"
"Max." the man answered softly. Tess nodded her head as she looked over at the body.
"Alright Max. Can you tell me what happened here?" Tess asked the man. Jake didn't know how she did. She could get anyone to talk to her. Was it her voice and how sweet she could be? Tess be sweet? That was a joke.
"Yes, I came into the room and I found her dead on the ground." Max answered as he looked into Tess's eyes.
"Alright, is that it?" Tess asked. the man nodded his head.
"Tess." Someone called. Tess turned to see Mr. Johnson, her Chief, standing behind her. "Is he possible suspect?" he asked. Tess shrugged her shoulders as she stood up.
"I don't think he is." Conan said with his arms crossed, walking forward. "You said that the murderer had come from Japan, correct?" Conan asked.
"Yeah, so?" Jake asked rudely.
"So! Max seems to be an American." Conan said. Mr. Johnson nodded his head as he looked back at Tess.
"Can you get his I.D?" he asked. Tess nodded her head. She looked back at Max.
"Max, can I have your ID card real quick?" Tess asked. Everyone watched closely as Max reached into his back pocket pulling out his wallet. He hesitated but handed it to her nonetheless. Tess smiled and said a quick 'thank you' as she stood upright. Mr Johnson, Jake, and Jade stood behind Tess as she opened his wallet.
"An America ID." Jade said.
"He's not the murderer." Jake said as he sighed. Conan walked over to the body of the popular Julia Haggard. She was pretty and she looked like a trust worthy woman. But the state of New York will never get the chance to figure that out.
Julia laid there on her stomach with her arms out above her head slightly curved. Her mouth also hung open. Conan looked around on the floor near the body to finally find something underneath the king sized bed in the hotel room. He blinked a few times as he got onto his hands and knees reaching underneath the bed. He pulled it out to see it was case. A plastic clear case. Conan stood up right as he remembered seeing the same case when Tess was filling him in with the information about what was going on.
"Tess." Conan said as he walked toward her. Tess looked down as he showed her the case. Tess blinked as she got down onto her knees taking the case from him.
"That's the same pill case we find at every crime scene." Jake pointed out. Tess turned looking at him.
"Thank you captain obvious." Tess said sarcastically. Tess looked at the case to see that one of the hinges were broken. How could that be? The hinges were metal. "The hinges are broken." Tess pointed out.
"Let me see." Jade said holding her hand out. Tess turned handing it to her. "Hm, you're right. She probably knew who her murderer was and"
"Put up a pretty good fight." Conan cut in. Jade nodded her head, agreeing with Conan. Tess looked back to the body as she sighed.
"Well, with that as the only lead this case goes cold."
The case did go cold. There were no other leads to help them find this Japanese murderer. What would they want with their politicians anyway? This made no sense to them. Tess drove back to her house. When they got there it was well over 10 o'clock and they were tired from a day's work. They all said goodnight and went to bed.
Later that night a girl walked into the backyard. She looked around as she noticed that the top of Tess's convertible was down. She smirked in the dark and walked over. She hopped in searching through the car when she found Tess's cell phone. Her smirk got bigger as she opened up the phone. The bright light lit up her face as she searched through the numbers on the phone she then came to a number that said: Jimmy&Rachel. Her eyes widened.
"Jimmy Kudo! Could it be him?" the girl closed the cell phone as she slipped it into her pocket while getting out of the car. She then found a way to get onto the second floor of the house. She opened the window in Tess's office. She hopped on in as she quietly looked around. She walked forward taking her seat into Tess's chair. She had noticed that Tess left a file on the desk. She smirked and decided to go through it. She looked back onto the desk as she noticed that there was a sheet of paper. "This Tess Moore is smart. Rechecking the clues to see if she missed anything. I better clean up a little better then." The girl spoke to herself as she placed the file onto the desk. She leaned back in the chair. She happened to look down to see the computer was one. She smirked again as she went through her files on the computer. She came to one listed: "Antidote."
The girl raised and eyebrow as she clicked on it. When she read the file her eyes widened. She right clicked on it as she left the screen there. She took out a mini computer that looked like a blackberry. She linked the cable from her mini computer the computer as she downloaded the file. After she was done she completely erased the file from Tess' computer. She looked back at the door to see it was wide open. Someone could walk by. She stood up and closed the door,locking it tight. She walked back to the desk. From the light the computer screen gave off the girl was able to find the phone. She pulled Tess's cell phone from her pocket as she searched through the numbers again. She then clicked on the number that said Jimmy&Rachel. She picked up the phone on the desk resting it on her shoulder as her shoulder kept it up against her ear. She dialed the number and waited for the ring. It kept on ringing and ringing till finally.
"Hello. This is Richard Moore's Office. I'm not in right now so please leave a message and a number and I'll get a good start on your case when I get in." The girls eyes widened as she slammed the phone down. She looked around as she heard someone coming. She ran to the door unlocking it and then shutting off the computer. Without the computer light there the girl couldn't see. She looked around till she finally found the closest. She opened it and closed it, hiding herself from whoever was walking by. She opened the door slightly as she saw a girl with jet black hair walk in. She was wearing shorts the hugged around her legs nicely and a random tank-top that looked blue. She knew that this was Tess.
Tess yawned as she sat herself down at her desk turning on the lap. Tess felt that the seat was warm. Someone was sitting in it. She looked around towards the closest. The girl inside the closest pulled herself back as Tess looked away. She turned on the lap on her desk and continued to work.
"It was probably my mom messing around on my computer." Tess said to herself. "I better check." Tess added as she turned on the computer screen. She looked around the screen to see everything was in order except for one thing, a file was missing. "What's this? One of my files is missing..." Tess said softly as she leaned forward searching on her computer for the missing file. Tess sighed. "She probably deleted it on accident. That's okay." She said to herself. Tess turned to the file on her desk to see it was moved. Tess felt something was wrong. That someone else other then her mother was in her office and they were messing around with her work. Tess turned around when she heard someone yawning. She turned to see Conan.
"What are you doing Tess?" Conan asked as he rubbed his eye. Tess sighed.
"I'm sorry if I woke you up." Tess said, standing up and turning off her computer screen.
"It's alright. What are you doing in here so late?" Conan asked as he stopped rubbing her eye.
"I was going to do a little work like I always do." Tess answered. Conan nodded his head as they left the room. Tess shut the door remembering when she left the house she left the door open.
If my mom was in there she probably shut the door when she left.Tess thought. Once they were gone the girl emerged from the closest. She walked to the window and left.
"That was close, just a little too close." The girl said as she landing on the soft grass in the backyard. She pulled out Tess's cell phone and dialed a number.
"Hello, Gin? Yeah, it's me Keina. Yeah I just got out of there, I was almost caught, she had a file on the computer labeled 'Antidote.' What did I do with it? Well I downloaded it into my blackberry and then deleted it on her computer. She probably noticed. And we have to be careful when we do our murders because Tess Moore isn't as dumb as her uncle. She double checks the crime to make sure she didn't miss anything. And about her cell phone, she has a number listed 'Jimmy&Rachel' do you think it's Jimmy Kudo? Yes sir I'll get the job done."
Fanfic Maniac: Me and Areiko are both writing this together, she watches Case Closed, I watch detective Conan and occasionally Case Closed. lol, hopefully that helped you a bit. Ai's my favorite character, besides Kaitou KID, so I just HAD to add her XP!