A/N: hey everyone! I kno that this never happened before in the show but… there's now two Conan's hints. The first one u should all kno… the strand of hair and the second one! A Family Photo! I've noticed… I've been changing a lot of things in this story… but I let u kno wat I changed! And this isn't like the last chapter! I hope u all enjoy it! All right now… ON WITH THE CHAPTER!

In Today's Case: Brutal Murder

Three days gone by… and three days without sleep for Tess. She just had to make sure that her family was safe. How much longer can she go without sleep?

Tess was lying on the couch sleeping her day away really. No one bothered her for she told them that she didn't get much sleep for the past three days and wanted to sleep all day. The true reason is that she wanted to sleep all day was so she would be awake all night. She turned over onto her side as she continued to sleep with her black leather jacket on her covering her upper body. Conan stood by her side watching her till Rachel came in from down stairs to get the mail. She flipped threw the mail…

"Junk… bill… junk, junk, junk…bill…" she repeated as she went through the mail. She then placed the bills on Richard's desk and through the junk away.

"Nothing good?" Richard asked as he picked up the letters Rachel tossed onto his desk. She shook her head.

"Nope." Rachel answered, "just bills."

"Great…" he Richard as he went through them. Conan sat down onto the couch still watching Tess as she turned back around facing the back of the couch.

"What's wrong Conan?" Rachel asked. Conan looked up at her and shook his head.

"Nothing… just wondering how Tess can sleep in this heat." Conan answered. Rachel looked at her cousin and nodded her head.

"I agree with you there. I want to know how she does." Rachel said. Richard placed the bills into one of the drawers in his desk.

"Leave her alone. She said she didn't get any sleep the past three days." Richard said as he leaned forward placing his head into his hands. Rachel sat down onto the couch.

"How long do you think she's going to sleep for?" Rachel asked. Richard looked at the clock that read 11:58 A.M.

"I give her till like 4:00 this evening." Richard stated. Conan looked at Richard funny.

"That's like half the day!" Conan stated. Rachel nodded her head.

"Yes. Tess can sleep all day if she wanted to." Rachel told him. Conan blinked in shock that she could do that and not worry about wasting a day of her summer vacation.

"That's what she mainly does in America when she's on summer vacation." Richard said.

"What? Sleep?" Conan asked. Rachel nodded her head.

"Yup."

Soon enough 4 o'clock came around and Tess was wake. Tess was sitting upright on the couch still trying not to fall back to sleep. She hated waking up and your eyes were still heavy from a long nap or too many sleep hours. She hated that eye feeling. Richard and Rachel were out, like always. Leaving Tess and Conan by themselves. Conan had just came in a few minutes ago from being outside with Amy, George, and Mitch. He looked at Tess as he sat down across from her. Tess rubbed her eyes as she gave him a sleepily smile.

"Hi." Tess said as she yawned.

"So… are you going to tell me what really happened yesterday at that building?" he asked her. Tess looked at him. She could never get a break from his questions. Never. It was like a ghost that followed you around haunting you till you die or something.

"I don't know what you mean." Tess said to him.

"I think you do Tess. Why would a man throw you off of a building so that you lived?" Conan asked. Tess shrugged her shoulders as she stood up walking into her room standing in front of her and Rachel's gigantic mirror that rested on the dresser.

"I don't know." Tess answered him.

"Tess. What really happened that day?" Conan asked again. Tess didn't answer she took out her messy out of its messy ponytail and brushed it through then put it back up. "Are you going to answer me?" he asked. Tess whipped around angry and annoyed by his questions.

"There's nothing to tell you considering I told you everything! You, Richard and Inspector Maguire were there listening to me when I told you the story!" Tess shouted at him.

"And I don't believe it!" Conan yelled back. "What happened Tess?" Tess walked passed him with her hand brushing up the side of him pushing him to the side as she walked by. Conan followed behind her. "And why are you sleeping so late? And…"

"Jimmy! SHUT UP!" Tess snapped as she whipped around slamming her fists by her side. "I AM AND SICK TIRED OF YOU HOUNDING ME!"

"WHY SHOULDN'T I WHEN YOU'RE KEEPING SOMETHING!" Conan yelled back. Tess tried to control herself from saying anymore… well we all know that didn't help at all.

"Jimmy! Every time there's something odd about me or misplaced or not me you're hounding me about it! Personally I'm sick and tired of it! I sick and tired hearing your voice coming up to me and asking me what the heck is wrong! Can't you… JUST LAY OFF!" Tess shouted as her voice echoed a little in the room. Conan stared at her for a while till Tess turned around and picked up her jacket off of the cough swinging it over her shoulder. "I'm going to doctor Agasa's house to see if he fixed the errors in you 'cure' yet." Tess walked forward slamming the door behind as she left. Conan walked to the window as he looked down seeing Tess storm off bumping into people a little. Conan then turned toward the door and left heading to Doctor Agasa's place as well.

Tess opened the door and slammed it shut once she was at Doctor Agasa's. Dr Agasa surprisingly wasn't in his computer chair this time; he came around the corner holding test tubes in his hand. Tess glanced at him as he smiled. She didn't smile back. She tossed her jacket onto the couch and then sat down.

"How's the cure coming?" Tess asked a little ticked as she crossed her legs. Dr Agasa set the test tubes on the table.

"Fine." Dr Agasa answered. He looked around. "Where's Jimmy?" he asked. Tess looked at him with a slight glare. Dr Agasa smiled nervously.

"Not here." Tess answered as she stood up walking to the computer and sitting herself down.

"Where is he?" he asked. Tess started to go threw the problems he fixed as she set her chin into her hand and her nails up against her lips.

"Don't know… don't really care." She answered as she did some slight clicking.

"I'm right here." Dr Agasa and Tess looked over as Conan entered the place. Tess stood up with the chair rolling backwards hitting the wall a little. She walked to her jacket and snatched it off of the couch she swung it back over her shoulder and left slamming the door behind her. Dr Agasa jerked at the noise as he looked at Jimmy who also looked frustrated.

"What happened between you two?" Dr Agasa asked as he turned and looked at Conan. Conan glanced at him as he tossed himself onto the couch.

"We… got into a fight." Conan answered.

"Did you hound her with questions again?" Dr Agasa asked as he turned and started to play with the test tubes.

"Yeah… she's just acting so…"

"Different." Dr Agasa cut in. Conan nodded his head. "Maybe if you stepped back off of her and stopped asking her so many questions that she didn't want to answer maybe she'll be herself again." Dr Agasa stated. Conan shook his head.

"No… I know that Tess is going through a rough time and I want to let her know that I'm here." Conan said.

"Then show it. Don't hound her with questions." Dr Agasa said as he turned his head and looked at Conan who was looking up at him.

Tess walked back to the house walking up the stairs entering the office. Richard sat at his desk and Rachel was vacuuming. She looked up to see Tess ticked as ever. She shut off the vacuum.

"Something happen Tess?" Rachel asked. Tess looked at her and shook her head.

"No." Tess snapped as she slammed the bedroom door shut. Rachel winced as did Richard. He looked at Rachel.

"Well… that's a lie." Richard stated. Then the phone rang. Richard jumped and answered it. "Richard Moore's office Richard Moore speaking… oh! Inspector Maguire! How are you… that's good I'm great… is there anything you need?" Richard paused for a minute as he listened to Inspector Maguire's voice on the other end of the phone. He nodded his head. "All right Inspector Maguire. We'll be there soon all right." Richard hung up the phone. He walked over to Tess's bedroom door as he pointed at Rachel. "Put that away you can vacuum later." Richard ordered. Rachel nodded her head as she started to put the vacuum away.

"Okay dad." Rachel responded. Richard slammed his fist onto the door as Tess's voice came from the other side.

"WHAT!" She yelled with a little choke after sounding like she was crying. Richard pressed his ear onto the door then removed it.

"Come on Tess! I got another case!" Richard shouted. Tess swung open the door as Richard stepped back getting out of her way.

"When do you not have a case?" she asked a little rudely as she wrapped her gun's holster belt around her waist.

"Um…"

"Don't answer that." Tess said lifting up her hand placing it in front of Richard's mouth and turning her head down toward the ground. She walked passed Richard and toward the door.

"Tess, do you know where C…"

"He's at Dr Agasa's." Tess interrupted, "I'm going to go get him right now." she said rolling her eyes as she walked out the door. Rachel knew Tess was angry but at who? And why did they cause her cousin to be in such a bad mood?

Tess made her way to Dr Agasa's. She knew Conan was only worried about her but he always hounded her with questions. She was getting sick and tried of it. Would you if someone was hounding you with the questions?

Tess placed her hand on the doorknob and turned it looking in. "Hey!" she shouted threw seeing Dr Agasa and Conan look over at her. She opened the door all the way and looked outside and not at Conan as she talked to him.

"Richard's got another case." Tess said. Conan nodded his head as he hopped off of the couch and walked forward.

"See ya Dr Agasa." Conan said.

"Good bye Jimmy." Dr Agasa said in return as Tess shut the door once he was outside.

They both made their way back to the house without a word. They didn't look at each other not even once. Tess walked forward looking down at the ground with her hands in her pockets. Conan walked forward looking up at the sky time to time. But most of the time he was looking forward. Conan knew that Tess was upset with him and she wouldn't want to help him with the case. He opened his mouth to ask a question when nothing came. He closed it looking at Tess. He didn't want to angry her even more. He's seen Tess's bad side before and right now… with what she was going through he didn't want to get on her bad side.

A car pulled up next to them. Tess jumped as she turned seeing that it was Richard and Rachel. "Come on you two." Richard said outside of the opened window. Tess rolled her eyes at Richard and opened the door and got in. Conan got in after her then shut the door. "You took forever to get the brat Tess." Richard stated as he pulled back into the road. Tess sighed and crossed her legs crossing her arms.

"Oh well…" she said as she turned and looked out her window. Conan knew that Tess was very angry at him for him asking her so many questions. Maybe Dr Agasa was right. Maybe he should lay off of Tess for a while, she's a big girl… she can take care of herself… right? Well, if Conan didn't get this information out of Tess he wouldn't know if she was in danger or not. He did want Tess to know that he was here for her but right now… she probably wants nothing to do with him.

Tess stared out the window. Annoyed by Conan's questions earlier. She understands why he asks her all these questions, but is it necessary to ask them 24'7? If she was in Conan's position right now and he was in hers, she would do the same. But not to the point where they get annoyed by it or… start to grow angry. Or would she? She knew if she cared about the person enough she would do anything to keep them safe. So now… she started to understand why he asked her so many questions. Does she need to say sorry for yelling at him the way she did? Or does Jimmy have to say sorry first for asking all those annoying questions?

Richard stopped the car in front of a duplex building which was a little odd considering that mainly… all the crimes happen at houses most of the time. Tess got out followed by Conan. She shut the door and walked forward without even looking at him due to the fact that she was confused, annoyed, and angry all at the same time, have you ever felt like that? Conan didn't blame her for he knew what he had done. Once he knew that he was the only one by the car he ran forward catching up to the others.

The front door opened before Tess could even knock. There was no one standing in front of her so she decided to look down. There stood a little boy maybe Conan's height. She smiled at his brown thick hair that was a little wavy. He had deep blue eyes and was in his pajamas looking like he was sick.

"Hi." Tess said getting to her knees. "Are you sick?" she asked. The little boy didn't answer. Then he was lifted up off of the ground. Tess looked up to see a woman. She had the same wavy hair but her's was black and she had deep brown eyes. She was wearing a pick dress with a white apron.

"You must be one of Mr. Moore's helpers… am I correct?" the woman asked nicely. Tess stood up right.

"Almost, I'm his niece and…"

"I'm Richard Moore!" Richard shouted as he suddenly appeared in front of Tess and the woman holding out his hand. The woman placed her sick looking son on her hip and held out her hand as she shook Richard's.

"Hi there Mr. Moore, I'm Kayo." She said happily. "This is my son Josh. He's a little sick. Say hello Josh."

"Hi." Josh said as he leaned his head on his mother's shoulder. Kayo smiled brightly at them all till she say Conan.

"And who is this?" Kayo asked.

"This is Conan." Rachel said placing her hand on his head. "I'm Rachel and that's my cousin Tess." Kayo looked over at Tess and smiled. Tess lifted her hand waving a little.

"It's nice to meet you all. Please come on in… Inspector Maguire is in the backyard waiting for you all." Kayo said as she turned and walked into her home with Richard, Rachel, Conan, and Tess following. Kayo opened the back door to reveal an aghast sight.

On the green grass laid three bodies. One was a woman, a man, and a young looking girl. Along side of them was a black dog. They were all lined up together. The girl's head was cut off at the neck separating from her shoulders. Her parents and dog are much to gruesome to explain what they looked like.

"Oh my…" Rachel started but wasn't able to finish. Tess stared as Richard's mouth fell open.

"I can't believe how… how…"

"Sick and twisted people can be when they're murdering people?" Tess cut in as she looked at her uncle who looked at her.

"Your not shocked by this?" Richard asked. Tess looked forward and shook her head.

"No… I've really seen worse." Tess answered.

"Richard! Tess!" Inspector Maguire called from standing on the green grass with most of it doused in red blood. They walked off of the porch and toward Inspector Maguire as Kayo took her son inside.

"What happened here Inspector?" Rachel asked as she took one more look at the bodies.

"Apparently a family murderer… including killing the dog." Inspector Maguire answered.

'This is the worse sight I've seen yet!' Conan thought. He looked at the bodies at Inspector Maguire kept on talking to Tess and Richard.

"The family you see here are the neighbors of Kayo. She found them out on the yard like this." Inspector Maguire stated.

"So she's our main suspect." Richard said. Rachel shook her head.

"I don't believe it… she's so sweet and kind." Rachel exclaimed. Tess turned and looked at her cousin placing her hands into her jacket pockets.

"Anybody can commit a crime. Even the ones you least except." Tess told her. Conan turned and looked at Tess once he heard those words. He wasn't going to bother to ask her what she meant so he just turned and looked at the bodies again. Like Richard said, their main suspect was Kayo… but she have really done the murder?

"Does she have an alibi?" Richard asked. Inspector Maguire nodded his head.

"Yes, she was attending to her son and her son backs her up on it." Inspector Maguire answered. Tess kicked up some dirt on the ground as she thought for a minute.

'Kayo is the only suspect we have… and she has an alibi and her son to back it up. So… who killed this family?' Tess asked as she looked up onto the porch to see the open door of the other apartment. She walked toward the steps and walked up them. She entered the house looking around. She walked into the living. She looked down at the couch. She saw a blood stain on it. The blood stain dropped to the ground. There were also bloody hand prints on the floor showing that someone tried to get away. Tess followed them into the kitchen where the back door was. She looked around. 'Maybe there's a clue in here somewhere.' She thought to herself. She looked around till she saw something hanging in a wavy look off of a hinge of a cabinet door that hung on the wall. She looked at it closely. She looked at the officer that stepped into the house. "Excuse me officer." Tess called. The officer looked up and over at Tess.

"Yes?" the officer asked turning to her.

"Can I have a pair of gloves please?" Tess said nicely. The officer nodded his head as he pulled out an extra pair out of his pocket. He walked over to her and handed her the gloves. Tess smiled. "Thanks." She said as she slipped them on. The officer nodded his head.

"Your welcome miss." He said as he disappeared into the living. Tess looked closely at the string that hung off of the hinge. She pinched it with her two fingers and pulled, pulling it off of the hinge. She lifted it up to her face and looked closely at it.

'Black… wavy… hair! But Kayo has black wavy! Man, darn it… this can be easily mistaken for my hair! I need another clue.' Tess opened the cabinet looking for plastic baggies when she found one. She opened it and placed the hair into it. She squeezed all of the air out and then closed the bag. She rolled it up and placed it into her pocket. She walked into the living looking for something that she could use. She looked around with officers walking in and out of the room. She looked on the couches, underneath the couches, on shelves, and on the rug. She was looking at a book case that not only held books, but it also held pictures when…

"Tess?" she turned and looked at Conan. She quickly looked away turning back to the bookshelf.

"Yeah?" she asked. He walked forward.

"I'm…"

"I GOT IT!" Tess shouted as she snatched a picture off of the shelf looking at it closely.

"You got… what?" Conan asked as he walked closer.

"I know who the murderer!" Tess shouted as she turned and ran passed Tess. Conan blinked a little. He looked at the pictures on the bookshelf. He did see anything that Tess saw. So he decided to go outside and hear who she thinks the murderer is. He stepped onto the porch as Tess stood on the stair case with Kayo holding Josh who stood next to Conan.

"How do you know who the murderer is?" Richard asked. Tess pulled out the baggie from her pocket.

"I did some work and didn't stand around like you did." Tess stated. "What I have here in this baggie is a strand of hair. Black wavy hair." Tess said. Conan looked over at Kayo who had the black wavy hair and then at Tess.

'There's a possibility that it could be yours to Tess.' Conan thought.

"How do we not know that it's not your hair?" Inspector Maguire asked.

"True… my hair could be mistaken for this but…" Tess grabbed onto the hair tie that held her ponytail up. She pulled it out and shook her head right to left. Her hair fell to her shoulders. The sun shined on it making it shine with beauty. Tess turned around to show her hair to Inspector Maguire, Richard, and Rachel. "My hair isn't wavy… it is black but my hair it darker then this strand." Tess turned back around and pulled out a strand of her own hair and lined the two pieces of hair together. "See?" Richard walked up the stairs with Inspector Maguire behind.

"What color is your hair?" Inspector Maguire asked.

"Jet black. Which is much darker then just black." Tess answered. Conan looked at Kayo whose eyes were wide. "Now, Kayo is the one with black wavy hair. And if this isn't proof enough." Tess held up the picture she had found. Richard snatched it out of her hands and looked at it.

"Um… it's a picture of a family." Richard said. "Look closer… whose in the picture?" Tess asked. Inspector Maguire and Richard pulled the picture close to their faces. Their eyes widened as they looked up at Kayo.

"JOSH!" the shouted out. Kayo backed away toward her open back door. Tess turned and glared at Kayo putting her hair up in a ponytail again.

"Kayo's the murderer here." Tess said as she walked back up the stairs. Kayo took another step back.

"Yes… I murdered them! But I did it to save my son!" Kayo shouted. She looked over at Conan. "Josh was mine! They stole him from me." Conan felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Kayo looking at him. "AND I WILL TAKE ANOTHER!" Kayo ran toward Conan. Tess looked at him as her eyes widened. Kayo grabbed onto Conan holding him up with her forearm wrapped around his throat. She pulled out a knife from her apron pocket. Tess was standing on the porch pointing her gun at Kayo.

"Drop… him… now." Tess demanded as she took a step forward. Kaoy smirked.

"Make me." She said. Tess pulled back the hammer. Kayo smiled. "When you pull that trigger this knife would've gone through his neck." Tess knew she was right. "Now… you drop you gun." Kayo demanded. Tess sighed as she kept her eye on the hand that held the knife. Tess slowly placed her gun on the floor. "Kick it over here." Kayo said. Tess kicked her gun over as Kayo smiled. "BYE!" Kayo went running through the back door.

"TESS!" Conan shouted.

"CONAN!" Rachel shouted out as she ran up the stairs. Tess was already ahead of her. She was already holding her gun in her hands again. She pointed it at Kayo's back as she was leaving out the front door.

"FREEEEEEEZE!" Tess shouted. Kayo didn't stop. Tess fired not once not twice but three times hitting her in her back. Kayo's body came down onto the porch.

"CONAN!" Rachel shouted as she ran forward toward the dead looking body of Kayo. Conan was alive. He was crawling from underneath Kayo's body. Rachel pulled him close to his body. "Thank goodness you're all right." Rachel said as she hugged Conan. Tess walked into the room as Richard and Inspector Maguire stood behind her. Kayo's body started to rise off of the ground holding the knife tightly. She was on her knees about to stab Conan in his back when there was a gunshot heard. Conan turned to see a bullet had entered and exited out of Kayo's head. Her body hit the ground as blood left her head.

"Now we have another dead body…" Richard said as he placed his hand over his eyes.

"I did kill her but in defense." Tess stated as she turned and looked at Richard. Inspector Maguire nodded his head.

"True… she did. Now someone take Josh out of here."

The day was over. Conan sat next to Tess in the back seat of the car glancing at her a couple times. This was probably the second time she saved his life. She saved him from her brother by killing him… the mass murderer who she was supposed to arrest and not kill. Conan smiled. He knew that Tess wasn't mad at him anymore at least.

Next Time on Case Closed: "It'll be ready by the end of the year!" Conan's cure is almost finished and fixed from its errors… but he still has to wait. But everything starts to lead to a murderer in the street. It looks more like a car crash but Tess and Conan think otherwise. So they start to solve whatever happened and why were they killed? And what did they do to be killed?

Next Time: Is it Murder? Or A Simple Crash?

Next Conan's Hint: Car Scratches, Dents, and Skid Marks