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Chapter 6: Threatening Attack

After they had all eaten they went into the livingroom. Tess, Jake and Conan sat on one couch while Ai and Jade sat on another, watching Mr. Jones intently, he seemed worried.

"What're you so worried about? You've got us here to protect you." Jade spoke up, he stopped pacing and looked at them.

"You're right I suppose...but I just recieved a letter from the murderer." He held it up, Tess' eyes widened and she snatched it from him and read it over.

You're as good as dead Maxwell Jones, not even your little detective friends can save you now. Enjoy the few hours you have left in this world.

She finished reading it over outloud and looked up at him.

"This is a threat Mr. Jones, why didn't you tell us sooner?" She growled.

"I am aware that it's a threat, I just got it!" He snapped. Conan took the letter from Tess and did a look over of it.

"There's no return address, meaning it was dropped of by the killer personally." He deduced, still looking over the letter.

"So that means this dude knows we're here to protect Mr. Jones then." Jade pointed out, the others nodded, save the small chemist.

It was now Tess' turn to pace the room, trying to figure out how they were going to protect Mr. Jones from the assailent.

"Do you actually think this guy's gonna go through with it and try something?" Conan asked.

"Yeah, either he's really stupid to come knowing we're here, or really clever." Was Tess' reply.

Jade leaned back against the couch, her skin paler than it usually was. She put the back of her hand to her forehead and groaned.

"What's the matter Jade?" Ai looked over at her.

"I'm not feeling very well..." Jade's answer was barely above a whisper.

"Go lay down for a while." Ai crossed her arms and leaned back.

"You guys don't mind do you?"

"Not at all, if you're sick then rest is the best medicine."

And so Jade went back to the shared room to lat down for a while.

"You've got your gun just incase he does show up, right?" Jake looked up at Tess, who nodded, lifting up her shirt partly to expose her gun in it's holster on her side.

"Well, Mr. Jones, go about your normal routine and if anything out of the ordinary happens or this so called assassin actually does show up then we'll be ready." Jake assured him, though they would tell Mr. Jones was still very wary. And who wouldn't be if their life was threatened to be taken from them? But the politician trusted them, mostly, and went into the other room to make sure everything was clean.

"What're we going to do if the k---" Conan was cut off by the power going out.

"Ok, this can't be merely coincidental, I think our guy is here." Tess went for her gun when they heard a yell from the other room.

"Quickly!" Ai called out to them as they all ran towards the scream. The room wasn't very dark so they could easily manuever through it and towards the man they were supposed to be protecting.

"What happened! Are you alright!" When they reached him he was holding his arm in pain, crimson liquid clearly seeping through his shirt. But he wasn't looking at them...he was staring towards the other direction.

"Huh? What're you looking at?" Conan turned his head questioningly in the direction, as did the others.

There stood a girl clad in all black with her long black trenchcoat fall to her knees. Her raven hair reaching just barely above her shoulders, and her emerald eyes partly hidden by rectangular glasses. Ai's eyes widened ever so slightly at the girl before them.

"Who're you!" Tess yelled out, gun in hand and pointing it towards the girl.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you detective." The girl's voice was icily taunting.

"Well you're not me." Tess retorted,"And you never answered my question, who the hell are you!"

"My name isn't going to help you figure out anything, but if you really want to know it, it's Keina. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish my assignment." Keina pulled out a silver gun from her pocket and pointed it directly at her victem, Mr. Jones, head. Ai immediately knew that she had to save this guy, so she jumped infront of him directly in the line of fire if the trigger was pulled. Keina's eyes widened and she growled.

"Move it Miyano." Ai flinched at her last name, but didn't budge an inch. Keina lowered her gun ever slightly, she couldn't shoot knowing that it would hit Ai, even if she was helping Tess and her group now. Tess saw this as her opportune moment, a loud cracking sound was heard, Keina let out a silent gasp, staring at Tess in shock. She hadn't expected that, slowly she looked down at her leg, blood was slowly darkening her black pants and creating a small pool around her feet. Everything was silent now and all eyes were on Keina, she knew that she had to get out of there and fast. So she took the only course of action that first popped into her head, and that was to escape by jumping out the window.

Tess and Conan both ran to the window, trying to spot Keina, but she was gone. They both sighed, atleast they knew her name now, though that didn't help much. Conan turned and glanced at Ai who had her arms crossed and was now leaning up against the wall.

"I'm going to bed." Was all she said before turning on her heel and walking down the hallway to the girl's room.

How'd Keina know Ai's real last name? Haibara's hiding something from us, and I aim to find out what that something is. Conan thought defiantly, watching his shrunken comrade disappear down the hall.

In the morning Jade was the last one to wake, standing with slight difficulty and making her way out into the livingroom where everyone else was. Conan noticed that she was limping and looked like she was trying to hide the fact that her leg was hurting her. Another thing was that she was wearing a long sleeved shirt, she always did for that matter, but it was almost 90 degrees outside, way too hot to be wearing something like that.

"What's wrong?" Conan finally asked, hiding his suspicion.

"Hn? Oh, I tripped and fell out of bed this morning." She answered him with a sheepish smile.

"You must have really bad luck." He mused.

"Yeah, I always have, it's attracted to me I guess." She laughed.

"That must suck."

"Yeah it does, what happened after I went to bed last night?" She plopped herself on the couch.

"The guy that sent that letter to Mr. Jones showed up, except he wasn't a guy at all like we had thought, she was a girl and her name was Keina. She tried to kill him and then Haibara blocked him from her attack and Keina seemed like she didn't want to hurt Ai, so Tess shot her and then she jumped through the window and completely disappeared." He watched her expression, to see what it would be.

"And I missed the whole thing? Aww, I really do have cruddy luck!" She pouted, leaning back against the back of the couch.

He nodded,"Hey, why do you always wear long-sleeved shirts?"

"I dunno, why? Is it bothering you?" She sideways glanced at him, watching him shrug his shoulders.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Tess smiled, coming down the stairs.

"Where were you?" Conan cocked a brow at her.

"I was upstairs talking to Mr. Jones, he's a complete mess."

"We'll i'd be too if I was almost killed." Jade piped up.

"You're right, hey, how're you feeling?" Tess stood there in the doorway, leaning up against the frame.

"Huh? Oh, i'm feeling better, thanks for asking." Jade smiled.

"Hey Haibara?" Conan glanced towards her.

"What?" She growled.

"How'd you know that she wouldn't shoot you?" He wasn't phased at all by her snappish reply.

"I didn't." Though she knew well of the reason why Keina wouldn't have shot her, but this time, she wasn't going to let them win. She wouldn't let herself be called a murderer anymore, she was going to be the good guy this time and she was going to help defeat the organization, even at the risk of her own life.