In Today's Case: Murder that She Wrote

Conan sat down on the couch, alone. No one was around. Tess was still sleeping and Richard wasn't there when he got up and neither was Rachel. Conan fiddled with his fingers thinking about Tess and what was said yesterday or last night. 'Even if my I have to loose my life.' Over and over again they rang, like a sick twisted smell hovering around in the air that u can never get ride of. He hit his head a couple times seeing if he could get them out but they never left. He sat there wondering how Tess is going to go about trying to search for this guy and kill him without Richard or Rachel figuring it out. Well, she did it about her brother then she can do it about this guy. Conan started to worry about her. His feeling went nuts. What is she going to do? What's going to happen to her? Is she going to be okay? Is she going to be killed? Is the guy watching her? All the questions of worriment started to rise into his head and then-some. He couldn't believe that she was really going to do this. But why? Other then revenge her parents' deaths.

Tess soon walked into the room wearing white shorts that hugged around her legs. Her jet black hair was tied back into a low not tight ponytail. She wore a blue tang-top that she used to wear but now it was too small. It showed her stomach so she wore it as a nightshirt. She stretched as Conan turned around to see her. He's never seen her up at this time. It was only 9:30 A.M. and she was awake.

"Wow." Conan stated. Tess blinked at that. She lowered her arms.

"What? You like to see me dressed like this because it shows off my body?" she asked smiling. Conan blinked then quickly shook his head. He did like it, but he didn't want to show it.

"No, you're up at 9:30, that's what scares me." Conan stated. Tess rubbed her eye. She looked at Conan smiling.

"Well I couldn't sleep so I decided to get up." Tess stated. Conan blinked.

"What's bothering you now?" Conan asked. Tess placed her hand where her scar is.

"Just a really bad and unwanted dream that kept me up all night." Tess stated as she took a seat next to him. Conan pushed over to give her room.

"Tess, I think it's about time that you tell me the real story." Conan said to her. Tess sighed as she leaned back into the couch. She looked up closing her eyes as she recalled the memory to her.

"I should huh?" she asked. As she opened her eyes. Conan nodded his head. Tess closed them taking a deep breath.

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Tess walked into the Station after she had come back from Japan. Everyone around her jumped up into the air throwing their papers.

"Yay for Tess!" they shouted. Tess smiled. She looked over to her left to see a man walking toward her. He was wearing a tan trench coat with brown pants and a white shirt. He looked no older then 25.

"Welcome back Tess." He said as he placed his hand onto her shoulder. She smiled at him.

"It's good to be back Jake." She said to the man. The man that she called Jake smiled. Then a big looking man walked in between the spaces of the desks. He held out his hand. Tess looked at him and smiled.

"Hello again Chief." Tess stated as she shook his hand. Chief smiled.

"Hello Tess." He said. An agent handed him the remote to a T.V. in the corner of the room of the station he pressed the power button and on came the T.V.

"The Mass Murder was handed over to us by the Japanese Government dead. They said it was one of our every own FBI agent who had killed him. Now that he's no longer a threat we can thank that agent." Said the news reporter on the screen. Chief then turned off the power of the T.V.

"It must have been hard." He said. Tess shook her head.

"No it wasn't he was going to hurt a friend of mine… his name is Conan." She answered.

"How old?" asked Jake. Tess turned to him and smiled.

"Maybe 6 or 7." Tess answered, "He's really good at solving things. He picked me out of the crowd of people that were after him." She stated as she took a seat at her desk.

Maybe a year later Tess's Chief had given her a vacation. At her house. Her mother and Richard's brother Max started to load up the car and take off. Once the week had passed and everything it was time to leave. Tess's mother had left the room as she looked at her father.

"Did you settle that issue with that guy dad?" Tess asked him as she picked up her duffle bag. Max looked at her rubbing the back of his head.

"I told him I'll give him his money after I got off of vacation." He answered her as he picked up his bag. Tess watched him walk out of the room. She knew that he was lying. Thank god she had her gun with her. She picked it up and hides it within the belt of her jeans walking out grabbing her mother's bag. Tess stood on the porch of a log cabin. It was pouring outside. Tess ran to the car. She quickly threw the two bags into the car as she got in. She shut the door and buckled her seat belt as her father pulled out of the drive way.

It was about an hour when Tess looked back. Threw the sheets of rain that poured over the back window she saw a black BMW but she couldn't see the license plate number. She looked forward when she felt a really hard jerk from the back. The car went forward. Tess placed one hand above her on the roof and her other hand on the door. The car spun out and hit the guardrail. The car then flipped over it rolling down the steep hill. Tess's hand was about to be crushed if she didn't move it. She closed her eyes as she heard the sound of crushing metal on the car. Tess's head bounced around as the car continued to roll. Then the car hit bottom and slammed into a tree. Tess's door hit the tree and bent inwards. The car looked like a V up against the tree the way it was. Tess's head as resting on the outside of the door. Her mother's seat in front of her was crushed and leaning up against her right leg. Tess's head rested on her seat bleeding at her temple. She was still alive but barely. Tess's rolled back and forth for a while till she finally lifted it up off of the seat. She heard a door open. She looked to the other door and it was open there a man reached into the car unbuckling her seat belt. He grabbed her right hand pulling at her.

He noticed that her leg was stuck underneath her mother's seat. Tess tried to fix her eyes onto the man but it didn't work her vision was much too blurry. The man wrapped his hands around her thy he lifted it up.

"Ugh." Tess groaned in pain. The man glanced at her. he then pulled her out. He pulled her out of the car leaving the door opened. He dragged her downwards into the woods. But little did he know in the dark it was difficult to see the trail of blood he left behind. He then dropped her onto the ground. Tess managed to find enough strength to grab onto her gun. She pointed it at the blurry vision of the man. She then shot hitting him in his right arm. The man kicked her head. Tess watched as the man took her gun and left her his.

"Here's mine, come and find me in Tokyo Japan." The man ran off yelling back to her. "IF YOU LIVE!" Tess tried hard to keep her eyes opened but she failed. Her head rolled to the left and her eyes closed.

She woke up on an hospital bed. She looked to her right to see Jake standing there with his hands in his pockets. She looked over to her left to see her chief sitting in a chair. Jake knelt down by the bed.

"Tess your awake." He said. Tess weakly looked at him and nodded her head.

"Yeah." She said. Chief stood up.

"Tess there's something you must know." He said. tess looked at him.

"You're parents… they're… they're dead." Jake stated. Tess shook her head trying not to cry.

"No… NO!" Tess covered her eyes with her weak and banged up hands.

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"See, my father owed this guy who claimed he was in the New York Mob some money. He used my vacation to get away but it didn't work." After Tess's story she was looking down at the ground. Conan's eyes wide and his mouth open.

"I'm sorry Tess." Conan stated. Tess waved her hand and shook her head.

"It's okay. She stood up. She turned toward him and smiled. "I better go get dressed." She said smiling. Conan watched as she walked away into her room. Conan couldn't believe what he had heard. The way she told it made him shiver and worry even more about what's going to happen to her. He shook his head trying to shake off the worriment but wasn't able to. Conan looked out the window to see the bust street. For all he knew that the man that had dragged Tess out of the car could be out there watching them this very second. Then the door opened. Conan looked to see Richard and Rachel entering in the room.

"Morning Conan." Rachel said. Conan smiled.

"What's wrong with you? You look like you just saw a ghost." Richard stated. Conan shook his head then smiled.

"Nothing I'm fine." Tess entered the room.

"Hey." Tess stated. Richard and Rachel looked at Tess shocked.

"What?" Tess asked as she wrapped the leather belt holster around her waist.

"You're awake and it's only 9:40." Rachel stated. Richard nodded his head.

"Yeah and you usually get up around 10 or 11." Richard stated. Tess shrugged her shoulders.

"Oh well." Then the door swung open. They all looked over to see a girl wearing purple shorts and a light purple tang-top. She had a small drop of blood on a scratch right on her knee.

"Are… are you Richard Moore?" she asked out of breath. Richard nodded his head.

"I am." Richard stated.

"My father was murdered!" she shouted. Richard's eyes widened as did everyone else's.

"Where do you live?" Tess asked as she took a step forward.

"Down the street." She answered.

"Your name?" Richard asked. The girl looked at her as her soft brown hair fell in front of her face.

"I'll tell you when we get to my house." She answered.

"Come on." Tess stated as she gave the girl a gentle push out the door. Then ran down the stairs and then down the street. Richard, Rachel, and Conan followed. Richard throwing his arms around in the air looking like he's waving at a fly.

"Tess! This is my case! She came here looking for me!" he shouted as they chased after him. Conan rolled his eyes.

'Stupid.' He thought. They got to the girl's house. She swung open the door and there stood her mother who was wearing a yellow dress with pink flowers standing there with her hand over her mouth in shock. There was a puddle of blood that had seeped into the floor. There laid the body of a big man dressed in a suit. He had black hair and his mouth was wide open. Richard walked forward.

"Who is this?" he asked the mother. She looked at him.

"Who are you?" she asked.

"He's Richard Moore." Tess stated.

"Oh, and you?" she asked.

"I'm Tess and over there is Conan and my cousin Rachel." Tess stated as she pointed to Conan and Rachel. The mother nodded her head. The little girl walked to up her hugging her leg.

"Now will you tell us your name?" Richard asked. The little girl nodded her head.

"My name is Ryu." She said. Richard smiled.

"And I'm Kate." She said placing her hand on her chest. Richard nodded his head. Conan looked closely at the body. No wonder there was so much blood; he has been stabbed in his chest 15 times and then slashed in the throat twice. Who ever killed him wanted to make sure he stayed dead. Conan looked down at his feet to see hand marks. He then looked around his arms but there was nothing found.

"Rachel you call the…" Conan didn't hear Richard finish his sentence. He turned slowly to see him standing behind him with his hands on his hips. "CONAN!!! THIS IS MY!!!!" he picked him up and booted him away. "CAAASE!!" Conan bounced on the floor. He rubbed his rear end glaring at Richard. Tess helped Conan up. Ryu, Kate, Rachel, and Richard entered the kitchen. Tess looked at Conan.

"Did you see those hand marks?" Tess asked. Conan nodded his head.

"Yeah and he was stabbed in the chest maybe about 15 times and slashed in the throat 2 times." Conan told her. Tess shook her head.

"This is one nasty freak whoever killed him." Tess stated as she looked back at the body. She stared long and hard but didn't catch anything about him other then how he died. She just hoped she doesn't end up dying like that when she finds this guy she's after.

"And we have a job of figuring out who did this." Conan stated. Tess looked back at him nodding his head.

"True." Tess stated.

Soon the door bell rang. Tess answered it to see Inspector Maguire and a couple of cops behind him. She smiled at him.

"Death seems to follow you everywhere you go huh?" he asked. Tess blinked. She glanced down at Conan and then back up at Inspector Maguire again.

"I guess." She stated.

"Now this is wrong." He said as he walked forward and looked down at the body. Tess closed the door behind the cops.

"Richard is in the kitchen talking to the suspects." Tess stated.

"Who are they?" He asked.

"A girl names Ryu and his wife name Kate." Conan answered. They followed behind them as Richard stood there questioning the suspects.

"When I came down stairs I saw my mother standing in front of my father's body like she was when we came in. Then I took off running here to get you so you could find out who killed my father." Ryu said. Richard nodded his head. He looked at Kate.

"You could have killed him." Richard stated. Kate was shocked.

"Why would you say something like that? I would never kill my husband!" Kate shouted at Richard. Conan looked up at Tess who to his surprise that she didn't start yelling for her yelling at Richard. Rachel also watched Tess just in case she picked up on it.

Little did they all know that Tess was in deep thought. 'Death seems to follow you everywhere you go huh?' Tess thought about that. She knew that he was right. Death did follow him around. When she got back to New York she was placed under cases that went unsolved while she was gone. At the night of the accident the Shadow had taken over the car killing her parents. Tess snapped back to reality to see Richard and Kate arguing. She decided to let this on slide. She turned and went to walk away when Ryu grabbed a hold of her wrist. Conan watched in reaction to this hold on Tess.

"Where are you going?" Ryu asked as she gripped tightly on Tess's arm. Tess went to pull away her arm when Ryu wouldn't let go.

"I'm going to check out the body, now let go." Tess stated. Ryu didn't listen. Conan was about to walk forward when Tess hit her knocking her to the ground. Ryu placed her hand on her bruised cheek. Tess holding her fist tight glared down at Ryu. Richard, Rachel, Conan, Inspector Maguire, and Kate looked shockingly at her.

"Why did you hit my little girl?!" Kate shouted.

"Because she was hurting me!" Tess shouted as she pointed to the hand mark on the middle of her arm. Conan's eyes widened. Tess carried a clue on her arm and she didn't even know it. Tess walked out of the room. She bent down and looked at the body closely. Conan ran out of the room. Rachel stood unseen at the doorway.

"Tess." Conan said. She looked up at Conan. He grabbed a hold of her arm.

"Don't make me hit you two now." Tess stated as a joke. Conan shook his head.

"No look." Conan placed Tess's arm next to the hand mark on the man's body. Tess looked at them seeing that they were extremely familiar. Tess looked up at Conan.

"Do you think…"

"Maybe, it's possible." Conan stated. Rachel turned her back to them and looked back at Ryu who was rubbing her cheek standing next to her mother.

Tess looked around the room to notice something underneath the couch. She got onto her hands and knees. She reached in underneath it pulling out a pink little book. Conan watched as Tess leaned up against the side of the couch and opened it. She began to read. Her eyes widened.

"Jimmy look." Tess pulled him toward her. She placed him on his lap and pointed to the section she was reading. Conan's eyes widened. They both looked at each other and stood up. They both walked into the kitchen. Conan flipped up his stun gun behind Tess. He aimed and shot it at Richard. Richard walked backwards falling up against the front of the fridge. Conan stood to the side of it where no one could see him.

"Are you okay Richard?" Inspector Maguire asked. Tess moved herself to stand in front of where Conan hid behind.

"Yeah I'm fine. But I know who the murderer is." Richard said.

"Who?" Rachel asked.

"Ryu." Richard answered. Kate bent down wrapping her arms around her daughter.

"My daughter isn't a murderer." Kate stated.

"But she is. On the man's body there is a hand mark on his ankles proven that he must have fell in the spot he died in. When Ryu grabbed onto Tess it was the same size hand mark as the body had."

"And the other piece of evidence is in this dairy. Ryu's dairy." Tess stated as she held it up. She opened to the page. "Dear Dairy. I wish my father would die! I hate him! He's always picking out the mistakes I make. I'm going to kill him." Tess stopped she looked up to see the face on Ryu. "Should I read on?" she asked.

"Yes." Inspector Maguire said taking a step forward. Tess looked back down at the dairy and continued.

"I'm going to stab him 15 times in the chest and then slash him twice in his neck. But first I need to grab a hold of his right ankle, his bad ankle, the one he broke and make him fall. Then I can continue with my plan." Tess slammed the dairy shut as she looked up at Ryu.

"That dairy entry is written by Ryu. And the man was killed by the same way Ryu explained it." Richard stated. Kate's arm came off of her daughter.

"Mom don't tell you believe th…" Ryu was cut off by a harsh blow to the face with her mother's hand. Kate glared down at her daughter. She stormed toward Tess ripped the dairy out of her hands. She flipped through the pages till she found it.

"It's written in you're hand writing Ryu! Your father did nothing but love you and you go and kill him for it!" Kate shouted at her daughter. Ryu was then cuffed and dragged off.

Next Time on Case Closed: "Who are you?" The man Tess has been looking for shows up in the middle of the night for her. But Conan catches him. After that they go out to party thrown be a blind man but things only get ugly real quick. What will happen this time?

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