In Today's Case: Run Away Teen
Conan watched as Tess stood behind Dr Agasa as he fooled around on the computer. Tess's left hand on the back of his computer chair and her right hand was pointing at the screen.
"But if you mix the Sake with the pills we should get a cure." Tess stated as she removed Dr Agasa's hand from the mouse. "Watch." Tess begun to click and drag things across the screen which Conan could not see. Dr Agasa nodded his head as he placed his hand on his chin.
"True we could do that but we don't know what effects could happen. See I'll run the example." Dr Agasa's hand was now back on the mouse. "See Tess by mixing the Sake and the pills together it will put Jimmy back in his normal body but we don't know how long it will work." Dr Agasa then did some clicking of his own. "Now say we did give our example cure to Jimmy. Now what the computer tells me is that it will age him at a faster rate." Tess sighed as she removed her left hand off of the chair turned around and walked toward a wall.
"Why does everything have to be so difficult?" she asked as she placed her head on the wall. Dr Agasa turned in his chair and looked at her.
"We can try again." He stated. Tess looked at him as she turned around pressing her back up against the wall crossing her arms.
"We've been trying again and again and still we couldn't find anything that will keep Jimmy in his own body. The first try did work but it will only last a couple of months. The second try didn't even work. The third try right here is telling us that it would age Jimmy at a fast rate." Tess sighed as she placed her right hand on her forehead. "How hard can it be just to figure out how to put him back in his own body?" Tess asked herself.
"Well I can't answer that." Dr Agasa told her as he turned back around in his chair. Tess then snapped her fingers as she walked toward the computer.
"Can we make our own cure?" Tess asked. Dr Agasa shook his head.
"No, we need the pills that were given to Jimmy by those…"
"Thugs." Tess cut in as she sighed again. She then snapped her fingers one more time as she rolled Dr Agasa and his chair over to the right. "How about we do this." Tess stated as she knelt down on her knees and started to play around. Dr Agasa rolled back over now sitting behind Tess watching her.
Tess clicked on the example of the Sake and only used a cup size amount. She then clicked on the pill that she had brought over and then cut it in half. She placed the half sized pill to the Sake and then mixed it together turning it into a liquid form. She then clicked and dragged the liquid form cure to the computerized Jimmy.
"What are you doing?" Dr Agasa asked as he leaned closer.
"You say using to little of the Sake is not enough and using to much of it will kill him. And you also say that using a little bit of the pill would age him at a fast rate and using to much of the pill won't work. Why don't we use half and half of both of them and see what we get." Tess removed her hand from the mouse as they both watched the screen. Tess jumped to her feet and clapped her hands together. "Yes! I'm a genius!" she shouted as Dr Agasa's mouth dropped open.
Conan was curious to see what was going on. He moved closer but in the dark and the only light showing off was the light from the computer screen; he knocked down a couple of things after he had hit a table. Tess and Dr Agasa looked over as Tess drew her gun. She slowly walked toward the table as she turned and pointed the gun. Her eyes widened as she lowed her pistol. She then blinked a few times.
"Jimmy?" She asked. Conan's arms were wrapped around his head as he sat there on the tile floor. Dr Agasa pushed his chair back to see Jimmy.
"What are you doing here?" Tess and Dr Agasa asked. Conan removed his hands from his head.
"I was following you!" he shouted as he placed his hands on the floor.
"Why?" she asked as she reached out for his hand. Conan grabbed onto her hand and she lifted him off of the floor.
"Because I wanted to see what you were doing in the middle of the night." Conan answered Tess.
"Well… now you know." Tess stated as she placed her gun back into its holster. Conan looked at Dr Agasa and then back at Tess.
"What are you doing here?" Conan asked. Tess looked back at Dr Agasa as he nodded his head. She looked back at Conan.
"Well… we were working on a cure for you." Tess answered Conan.
"You were?" he asked in confusion. Tess nodded her head as she turned and looked at Dr Agasa.
"Can you finish the work by yourself?" Tess asked. Dr Agasa nodded his head.
"Yeah. You go ahead and head home and get some sleep." He stated as he looked back at the computer screen. Tess picked up her bag as she looked down at Conan.
"Come on." she said as she walked forward opening the door. Conan exited as she nodded at Dr Agasa and he nodded back. She exited and shut the door behind her and they both walked home.
"So that's what you've been doing all night for the past three days?" Conan asked her. Tess nodded her head as they both mad their way up the stair case entering Richard's office.
"Yup." Tess answered as she placed her bag down on the floor. "Now, I'm going to bed for the last…" she looked at the clock and yawned, "4 hours… good night." Tess walked into her room and shut the door. Conan looked at Tess's door. Why didn't she tell him what she was doing unless she didn't want him to know what was going on.
The next morning, Tess walked out of her room around 11. Rachel and Conan were working on the puzzle from yesterday as Richard again sat at his desk. Tess rubbed her eyes a little as she looked at each one.
"Morning." She stated as she took a seat on one of the couches.
"Morning Tess." Rachel stated as she placed a piece of the puzzle together. Richard looked at her.
"I'm surprised you didn't go for another early morning walk." Richard stated. Tess shrugged her shoulders.
"Oh well. I want to sleep anyway she said. Then the phone started to ring.
"Richard Moore's Office, Richard Moore speaking… Mrs. Hung… yes… okay… yup, me and my team will be there." Richard then hung up the phone. Tess looked at Richard funny.
"You don't have a team." Tess stated to him. Richard glared at her as he picked up his car keys.
"Let's go." Richard stated ignoring Tess's comment and walking out of the door. Tess, Rachel, and Conan followed as Tess shut the door behind her. Tess and Conan like always sat in the back. They drove all the way to Mrs. Hung's house who ever she was.
They arrived at a small house. They got out of the car and walked forward. Richard knocked on the door. They heard a dog bark and then the doorknob started to turn. There stood a woman with brown hair that touched her shoulders. She wore jean shorts and a nice looking Chinese top. She let them in.
"Mr. Moore, I'm so glad you can come here." She stated. Richard nodded his head as he turned and looked at the woman who was Mrs. Hung.
"Sure I would come. Now who is it that missing?" Richard asked. Mrs. Hung folded her hand in front of her.
"My daughter Seta." She stated. "She's only 15 years old. She left us this note this morning." She took something out of her pocket. It was a folded piece of paper and she handed it to Richard. He gladly took it. He unfolded it and Tess read it out loud over Richard's shoulder.
"Dear mom, I've run away from home and there's nothing you can do about it. You won't be able to find me for I left town. Please don't come looking for me. Love Seta." Tess read. Rachel looked at Mrs. Hung.
"Is there a reason why she ran away?" Rachel asked. Mrs. Hung looked down.
"Seta and I… we got into a fight." Mrs. Hung answered.
"What was the fight about?" Richard asked as he folded up the paper and handed it back to her. Mrs. Hung took it and placed it in her pocket.
"About her father. He died before she was born and she kept on asking me why and everything when it broke out into a fight. And she yelled at me on her way to her room that she hated her father for leaving her and that was it." Mrs. Hung answered.
"Sounds like an angered teen to me." Tess stated as she walked over to a table and looked down.
'Where could she have gone?' Conan asked himself. Tess then turned around and looked at Mrs. Hung.
"Did Seta have a favorite place?" Tess asked. Mrs. Hung shook her head.
"Not that I know of." She answered.
"Do you mind if we take a look in her room for any clues?" Richard asked. Mrs. Hung shook her head.
"No I don't right this way." Mrs. Hung led them up the stairs. Tess looking at the pictures that hung on the walls for any clues of where she could've gone. "Here we are." Mrs. Hung opened a door to let them enter the room. They looked around to see a messy room. Clothes and soda cans mainly everywhere. Her bed wasn't made at all and there were some papers on a desk over in the corner of the room. "Don't mind the mess… I could never get her to pick it up."
"Its okay." Richard stated as he walked into the room followed by Tess and Conan and Rachel stood next to Mrs. Hung in the door way. Tess walked over to the desk as she looked down at it. There were papers everywhere and they had pictures on them. Tess picked a couple of them up to only find herself disturbed by them.
"Richard." She called. He turned and walked over to her.
"What?" he asked.
"Look at these." Tess showed him the pictures. His eyes widened as he seen pictures in complete detail of her killing herself with a knife or being hung. Conan took a picture off of the desk as well and looked at it to find himself disturbed as well. Richard took one from Tess's hands as he walked over to Mrs. Hung.
"Have you seen these?" he asked her. Mrs. Hung shook her head.
"No, what are they?" she asked as she took the picture from Richard's hand. She covered her mouth in shock. "Oh my god…" she said quietly. Tess glanced down at Conan and his mouth was dropped open. Tess looked back at Mrs. Hung as she gave the paper back to Richard.
"It seems that your daughter as thought about suicide." Richard stated. Mrs. Hung shook her head.
"I can't believe it." She stated.
"Why do you think she would want to commit suicide at all? Just from an argument." Tess stated. Richard looked at Tess.
"Certain things make people do certain things." Richard told her. Tess looked down. She thought of herself when Richard said that. The certain thing that made her do a certain thing was her parents' death. That was a certain thing right? And the certain thing she was going to do about it was kill the man who did it knowing her life was in danger. There was also another certain thing. She looked over at Conan. Her feelings are making her do a certain thing for him and that was to find a cure which she did and she knew right now that Dr Agasa was working on it.
"Are you sure you don't know where your daughter would be?" Rachel asked. Mrs. Hung nodded her head.
"Yes I'm sure. I don't know any place where my daughter would run off to." Mrs. Hung stated.
Conan looked up from the picture he had in his hands. He looked back up onto the desk to see a photo. He grabbed it and looked at it. It was a picture of Seta and her mother standing in front of a white house and it wasn't the one they were in. in the background was a tree house. He looked back at the picture he had in his hands to see that there was the same house and the same tree house but hanging off of a branch at the tree house was a body hanging off of a rope. Conan's eyes widened.
'She went here!' Conan thought to himself. "I know where she went." Conan stated as he turned and faced everyone.
"How do you know?" Richard asked rudely. Tess's hand hit Richard's chest. He looked at her as he rubbed the spot she hit.
"Where Conan?" Tess asked. Conan walked over to Tess with both of the pictures at hand.
"There. At that house." Conan stated. Tess took the pictures as she turned and looked at Mrs. Hung.
"Where is this place?" Tess asked.
"Its about 2 blocks away if you jump through people's back yards." She answered. Tess pushed the pictures into Richard's chest.
"Thanks." Tess took off running down the stairs as Conan followed behind her.
Tess and Conan ran out the back door and hopped over the fence. They kept on hopping over fences till they came to a white house with a tree house in the backyard. Tess ran over to the ladder.
"Seta!" Tess called up as she begun to climb up the ladder with Conan behind her.
"Whose there?" someone asked. Tess's head appeared inside to see Seta standing there with a rope around her neck about to jump out a window.
"You don't want to do this Seta." Tess stated as she slowly walked into the tree house.
"Why? My life is nothing." She stated. Tess shook her head.
"No. You're mom is at home worried sick about you."
"My mom doesn't care about me." Seta stated about to jump. Tess walked forward toward her.
"Trust me Seta, don't jump." She stated. Seta looked back at her. "I thought about committing suicide plenty of times."
"Why?" Seta asked. Conan was now standing behind Tess as she took another step forward.
"Because I lost both of my parents. They were murdered and they haven't caught the murderer yet. I thought about doing the same thing as you till I thought about my friends and my uncle and cousin who loved me. And then I knew I couldn't do it. Think about all the people you'll be hurting if you do this." Tess stated to her as she held out her hand. "I hope you make the right choice." Tess stated. Seta sat there on the branch for a minute. She hesitated but she grabbed onto Tess's hand and pulled her into the club house.
Conan stood there behind Tess unable to say anything from what he just heard. Tess wanted to kill herself when her parents died. That was a huge shocker for him.
Next Time on Case Closed: "Is it ready?" Conan's cure is nearly finished but there are some errors. But that is all going to have to wait when a murder happens in a school building. Why there? And why kill someone in school when its so close to the school year?
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