Author's note: This time the text in (this) is a daydream.

Jamie Kudo

Conan couldn't believe what he just heard, it's a girl.

"Can I go see her dad?"

"No, not today, Rachel is too exhausted."

"Oh, ok." Conan sadly walked to his room. 'Poor Rachel,' he thought. 'It must have been hard for her.'

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The next day when Conan went to visit Rachel she was asleep on a hospital bed. For awhile he watched her and thought about how beautiful she looked sleeping. Then he noticed the baby. She was wrapped tight in a pink blanket and was sleeping too.

"She's pretty, isn't she?" Rachel had awoken and startled Conan.

"Yes, she's very pretty," Conan replied and then sat in a chair next to her bed. "What are you going to name her?"

"I named her Jamie. Jamie Kudo." Conan was awestricken.

"Why Kudo? Wny not Moore?"

"She looks more like her father than me. Also I want the Kudo name to live on with her."

"Oh." Conan just stared at the floor. 'She didn't have to do that,' he thought. 'But still, it's a lovely name. I'm glad she picked it.' Jamie started crying so Rachel got out of bed to see what was wrong.

"She was crying earlier just to get attention," Rachel said as she held Jamie, and then the baby became silent again. "See, she did it again. You want to hold her Conan?"

"Uh… sure." When Rachel handed Jamie to him she didn't rebel against it. As Jamie was in Conan's arms she looked up at him and gave a little smile, then she fell asleep again. Jamie had black hair with blue eyes and a light skin tone. 'She's so beautiful.' Rachel lied on the bed while Conan held Jamie. "What are you going to do Rachel, still live with us?"

"No, I'm going to live in an apartment and my dad is going to pay the rent for it. Also I'm going to get a job to pay for other things."

"Who's going to take care of Jamie?"

"Jimmy's parents said they would." Rachel sighed. "I just wish Jimmy were still alive, so Jamie can have a father to protect her. But… I don't know."

"But what?"

"Well," she started teary-eyed, "maybe she will have a father someday." Conan put Jamie down in her bed and gave Rachel a tissue to wipe her eyes.

"Don't cry Rachel." He put a hand on her shoulder. "Jimmy wouldn't want you to be sad like this. I'm sure he'd want you, and Jamie, to be happy."

"Yeah, you're right Conan. It's just… just that it's so hard to forget and move on." As she said that a nurse came in and told Conan to leave because visiting hours were over.

'Oh Rachel,' he thought as he walked away. 'I am sorry I made you a single mother. I should've just died without ever seeing you again.'

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Rachel moved into an apartment a month later and her father resented paying the rent, but he did. She got a job as a secretary to pay for bills, food, and things for Jamie.

Conan went back to school without Amy. Mitch still wasn't talking to him, but luckily Conan still had George. He would see Jamie just about everyday and help take care of her. So in a way Jimmy really was raising his daughter.

The years went by slowly for Conan, but before he knew it Conan was back to where he was: seventeen and in high school. Although he now was back to normal Conan started to think of other careers, other than being a detective.

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One day at school during their first class Conan and George were talking about their hopes.

"Remember when we were younger we wanted to be detectives," George said to Conan.

"Yeah, so what?"

"Well, I was thinking of becoming one."

"What, why?"

"I don't know, what else is there?"

"I was thinking of being either a pro soccer player or something else dealing with mathematics."

"I thought you wanted to be a detective too."

"I don't know, I haven't decided yet." Then the teacher called Conan up to her desk and told him the counselor wanted to see him. The counselor called Conan into his office to discuss his future.

"What do you plan on doing for a career," he asked Conan.

"I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"Well, I just haven't thought about it lately."

"You need to Conan. Aren't you going to college in a few months?"

"I guess so."

"Ok, but for what?" Conan let out a soft groan.

"Well, when I was little, I wanted to be a detective, but I don't know about that anymore."

"Why not?"

"Because… I thought maybe I could do something else."

"Like what?"

"I don't know, just something different. Something meaningful."

"Conan, being a detective is meaningful. They help keep order in this corrupt society. There aren't many good ones now since Jimmy Kudo died." Conan blushed inside after he said that. "I think you should go for it."

"I'll think about it some more."

When Conan got out of the office he saw Mitch and a girl he didn't know walking down the hall together hand in hand skipping class. They both look stoned and ready to collapse. Mitch saw Conan and gave him a menacing glare that told Conan "you better not think about taking this girl away from me." When Conan got back to class he told George about Mitch.

"I don't know what's up with him," Conan said. "Doesn't he ever let go? Why does he need to hold this grudge against me?"

"No idea," George replied. "I tried to be his friend again, and he accepted my friendship, but later I had to ditch him."

"Why?"

"He's changed. That new girlfriend of his got him hooked on drugs. Also he told me that you're a backstabber and to not trust you. I told him to get over it, but he won't."

"Man, he has issues."

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Mitch escaped Conan's mind when he got home and saw Jamie. She ran to him and hugged his leg.

"Conan, come play with me." He happily followed his daughter into the guestroom.

"What do you want to play Jamie?"

"Clue."

"Clue, why Clue?"

"'Cause it's my favorite game." Conan set up the game board and pieces. She was Miss Scarlet and he played Prof. Plum.

'Clue use to be my favorite game,' he thought. 'She's my splitting image.' They played for half an hour until Jamie finally won, but Conan let her win.

"It was Mrs. White, in the lounge, with the candlestick."

"You got it Jamie."

"She got what?" They both turned their heads to the door and there stood Rachel.

"Mommy, I won Clue."

"That's nice. Now get your things so we can go because Conan has other things to do."

"It's ok," he replied. "I like playing with her." Rachel sighed.

"She's just like her father. Her favorite books are the Sherlock Holmes ones."

"Really?"

"Yeah, just like her father." In the distance they heard Jamie yelling.

"Mommy, I'm ready to go." Rachel grabbed Jamie's hand and they walked out the door. Halfway down the sidewalk Rachel glanced back and saw Conan staring at them from the doorway, and then they both looked away.

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Eventually Conan and George did go to college and majored in criminal justice. Then after three years they graduated. Both of them shared an apartment, so Conan rarely saw Jamie, but he kept in touch with her and Rachel. The two guys started their own detective agency, but Conan mainly wrote and filed reports while George solved cases and consulted with clients.

One day as Conan was filing some papers he looked at the picture of him, Rachel, and Jamie at his apartment hanging on the wall. He stared at it and was caught in a daydream.

(Conan and Rachel were sitting close together on his bed in his new apartment while Jamie was watching T.V. in the other room.

"I'm gonna miss seeing Jamie," Conan told Rachel. "She's a good kid."

"Yeah, Jimmy would be proud." She leaned back and accidentally placed her hand on Conan's. He noticed and she drew it back quickly.

"It's ok Rachel." He grabbed her hand and she wrapped her fingers around his.

"Conan, I have a confession to make. Ever since you graduated from high school I've been having feelings for you." Conan remained still. "I know it could never work though. I'm ten years older than you, it wouldn't be right."

"What does your heart tell you?"

"I don't know. I just thought I'd tell you Conan."

"I'm glad you did." Conan lightly kissed her cheek. Then she kissed his lips, but before he could respond Jamie had yelled.

"Mommy! Mommy, come here." Rachel got up and went to Jamie's aid.)

Suddenly Conan was back in his office and the phone on his desk was ringing. He answered it and heard Jamie on the other end.

"Conan, I'm scared," Jamie said fearfully.

"What's wrong Jamie?"

"Mommy… My mommy's gone!"……