A/N: This is going to be a long chapter. I dunno how many pages but it's long. So hang in there plz. I kno u'll make it! Alright, enough of my talking and off with the chapter… ENJOY!
In Today's Case: Jimmy's Kidnapping Part 2
Ai worked extremely hard on the tow notes. Trying to figure out who wrote them. Tess was on the phone with a worried Rachel. Tess's voice seemed to raise a little as she rubbed the back of her head where she was hit with the bat.
"Rachel, don't worry about me. I'll find Conan…. No, I'm not going to leave this to the police. It was my fault that Conan was kidnapped! I should've left him home and sent you, Richard, or Darien out. Goodbye Rachel!" Tess hung up the phone. She looked over at Ai and saw her working extremely hard. "Sorry if my talking was distracting you."
Ai shook her head, "no, nothing really distracts me." She said as she looked at both of the papers underneath a telescope. Tess nodded her head as she took a seat on a chair. She clenched her eyes closed and rubbed the cut on the back of her head that was stitched. Ai looked up at her noticing she was in pain. "Headache?" she asked. Tess opened one eye and looked at her shaking her head.
"No…" Tess answered. Ai shook her head.
"Lair." She said as she continued to work. Tess smirked a little as she stopped. She walked Ai work. "Hey Ai, don't you get tired of working that hard?"
"It's what I do." Ai said. "And it's Shiho." She said.
Tess blinked, "what?"
"Didn't you hear me? It's Shiho. My name." Ai said to her glancing at her. Tess blinked as she smiled crossing her arms.
"What made you decide to trust me?" She asked.
"Well… if Kudo trusts you then there you go. There's your answer." Ai said to her. She then took the two piece of paper and placed them into some kind of chemical. Tess stood up off of her chair looking at it.
"Aren't you going to ruin it?" Tess asked. Ai looked at her.
"For someone who claims to be an FBI agent sure asks a lot of questions." Ai said to her taking the papers out and placing them both under the telescope again.
"Well…" Tess didn't know what to say. Ai was right. But she was pretty smart for her age and the same with Jimmy. They both knew a lot about criminal law.
"Got it!" Ai shouted as she turned and looked at her.
"What?" Tess asked as she approached her. Ai turned and let tess look at the letters.
"The letter that was sent to Kudo was written by a female and the other one, which you found in your pocket, was written by a man." Ai said to her. Tess nodded her head agreeing. Tess stood upright.
"But who would take Jimmy and leave me a note?" Tess said.
"Got any enemies?" Ai asked her looking up. Tess looked at her. She sighed. It was information that Ai had to know if she was going to help her find Jimmy.
"Yeah." Tess said rubbing the back of her neck.
"Who?" Ai asked.
"I don't know his name. But he was the one that killed my parents. And he does have a woman gunman working with him." Tess answered. Ai placed her hands onto her hips.
"Well a name doesn't help." Ai said sarcastically.
"True, but they are our suspects." Tess said. Ai nodded her head agreeing with her. But she then lifted up her finger.
"But there's on problem. We don't know where to find them." Ai stated. Tess crossed her arms.
"The only lead I know I have is the kind of car I think they're driving." Tess said.
"Which is…?" Ai asked gesturing her to continue.
"A black BMW." Tess said. Ai rolled her eyes.
"The license plate number!" Ai asked annoyed.
Tess sighed, "I don't know that either."
Ai growled loudly, "is there anything you do know!" she asked.
"My name." Tess joked. Ai crossed her arms showing Tess that she wasn't joking. Tess gave a nervous laugh. "Let's go back to the video store in the back to see if they left anything behind." Tess suggested. Ai sighed.
Tess and Ai arrived at the store. They walked right up to the counter. The store clerk standing there recognized Tess. But he didn't say a thing to her. Tess pulled out her wallet from her back pocket. She opened it showing the clerk her badge. He took a good look at it and then nodded his head.
"Is there something I can help you with?" he asked her. Tess stuck her badge back into her pocket.
"We need to go into the back to gather clues." Ai said.
"Clues for what?" the clerk said.
"Clues to gather about the kidnapping of Conan Edogawa." Tess answered the clerk. The clerk nodded his head. He waved his hand telling Ai and Tess to the back. He walked them around the counter and into the back. Tess and Ai walked forward.
"There's nothing here." Ai said as she looked around. Tess shook her head as she walked towards some skid marks on the pavement.
"No. There's some skid marks." Tess said as she bent down placing her hands onto the marks. She ran her finger down them. Ai walked over to her.
"Skid marls? What are those going to do for us?" Ai asked. Tess looked at her.
"A lot." Tess answered. "I need you to stay here while I head to the police station to pick up some things." Tess added. Ai nodded her head.
"Alright, but what are you going to pick up?" Ai asked her.
"Something to copy this skid mark." She added. Tess stood upright when she remembered her cell phone. She pulled it out of her pocket. Her cell phone and contact Jimmy where he was. She turned it on and pressed an arrow button that pointed to something on the screen. The screen went black and said across it "Searching…" Ai looked at her funny. Then her cell rang a couple of times. Tess stomped her foot as she closed her cell. "Crap!"
"What?" Ai asked. Tess placed her cell phone back into her pocket.
"Dr Agasa made me and Jimmy these gadgets to contact one another incase we were in danger." She answered.
"Why did you say that first? We could've used it." Ai said to her. Tess sighed as she rubbed the back of her neck again.
"Well I just tried using it and it doesn't work. I'm out of service." Tess said to her. She then turned around and started toward the back door. "I'll be back. I'm going to go get the supplies." She said. Ai nodded her head. She watched as Tess opened the door and disappeared in the building. Ai turned back around looking at the skid marks. She bent down and took a good look at them. She wondered where these tire tracks lead to. She looked out into the street to see another set of tire tracks left there. She walked over and looked down to see they went towards the left. She looked over in that direction. She thought of all the places where Jimmy's kidnappers could hide him. But nothing came to mind. She sighed and turned around to see the store clerk standing there behind her. She looked up at him. He was giving her a weird look.
Suddenly the store clerk grabbed onto her shirt. Ai's eyes widened as she was lifted up into the air. He started to shake her violently.
"You're going to die here!" he shouted at her. Ai let out a yell for help but she was then striked in her face. Ai fell onto the ground. She looked up at the store clerk. He reached into his shirt pulling out a very small hand gun. Her eyes widened further as he started to speak to her. "There's no way your going to stop Jack. He's the best we have." He went to shoot when there was another gun shot heard. Blood splattered onto the pavement next to Ai. The store clerk looked over to see that the door was flung open and Tess was standing right there with her gun pointed at him.
"Step away from her!" Tess shouted as she came closer to the insane clerk.
"Why isn't it Tess Moore? You're father owed us a lot of money you know." The store clerk said to her. Tess shot at the ground making him jump.
"Put down your gun and back away from her! Now!" She shouted. The clerk tossed his gun to the side and lifted his hands into the air. Tess looked over at the small gun. She walked over to it. No sooner does she take her eyes off of him to grab the gun. She was soon tackled to the ground by him. Both of the guns went flying out of her hands as the clerk sat on her pinning her wrists to the ground. Tess looked up at the man as he smirked at her. He placed his knee onto her right hand as he reached into his shoe pulling a pocket knife out of his shoe. Suddenly, a gun shot was heard. Tess closed her eyes as she noticed the man had stopped moving. He then fell forward on top of her. Tess pushed him off of her as she sat up. She looked to see Ai standing there holding her gun in her hands. She was breathing hard and Tess could see she was in pain.
Tess stood up walking to her. She picked up the small hand gun and stuck it into her belt loop making sure it stays. She then walked over to Ai. She got down onto her knees as Ai looked at her handing her back her gun.
"Thanks." Tess said. Ai smirked.
"You saved my life and I saved yours." Ai said to her. Tess smiled.
"I take it its one of those I pay you back things huh?" she asked.
"You can say that." Ai said. Tess could see that Ai was hurting. She didn't know that this man did to her. And considering her small body she could get hurt easily.
"Are you alright Shiho?" Tess asked as she placed her hand onto her back. Ai nodded her head.
"Yeah…" she answered.
"What did he do to you?" Tess asked.
"Hit me in the face and shook me violently." Ai answered. Tess knew that was dangerous. The shaking part anyway. Her body was too small to handle something like that. She could be seriously hurt. And she wanted to take her to the hospital.
"Let me take you to the hospital." Tess said. Ai shook her head.
"No, it's part of the job to save Jimmy." Ai said. Tess smiled. "He said something to me though." Ai added.
"Like… what?" Tess asked.
"He said… 'There's no way you're going to stop Jack. He's the best we have'." Ai said to her. Tess nodded her head.
"Jack… that must be his name." Tess said. "The man who killed my parents and took Jimmy." Tess said.
"Maybe there's a police file on him." Ai said. Tess shook her head.
"No not here. Jack's an American from a New York Mob." Tess said. "So there's no file on him here."
"What about the woman." Ai said. Tess looked at her. "The woman could possibly be Japanese. So maybe there's a file on her."
"But there's one problem. We don't know her name." Tess said.
Tess had gone to the police station with Ai behind her. Ai waited outside considering they didn't want anyone knowing she was helping her. Tess showed an officer her badge and asked for some supplies. He went off and got her supplies. Tess looked around and seated herself at someone's desk. She looked through the police files on criminals that were women.
"Tess?" Tess flinched. That voice was familiar. It was Inspector Maguire's voice. Tess turned and looked at him. "What are you doing?" he asked her.
"Nothing." Tess answered as she turned off the computer screen keeping him from looking.
"If this is about Conan we're doing everything we can to find him. Leave it to us." He said to her. Tess shook her head.
"No." she said to him.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because if I leave it to you then it will take years to find him. And, by the time you find him there's a possibility that he could wined up dead." Tess answered him. Inspector Maguire turned away from her walking to his office. Once she knew it was safe, she turned the computer screen back on. Her eyes widened when she noticed the woman she had stopped on. It was the same woman who was with Jack the day he told her that he was going after someone she loved dearly. She quickly printed it out. She grabbed the piece of paper. The office had returned and she grabbed the bag and walked out of the police station telling the officer that she would bring it back.
Ai turned to her as she noticed a suit case in her hands and the piece of paper. Tess handed it to her. "Dojoma Ushi." Tess said. Ai grabbed the paper looking at it.
"How do you know it's her?" Ai asked as she looked p at her.
"Because she was with Jack a while back when he confronted me." Tess said.
"This Dojoma has a history of being hired as a hit woman. She was arrested 4 times and escaped 3. And she only served one full term. And that term lasted 4 years." Ai said reading off of the paper.
"That's a perfect partner." Tess said. Ai looked at her. "No one has a record like hers." Tess added. Ai nodded her head in agreement.
Then the two found themselves back at the store in the back. Ai was searching the clerk she had killed for any clues and Tess was copying the skid marks off of the pavement. Ai ravaged through the clerk's pockets. She then founded a piece of paper. It was folded into fourths. She unfolded it to find an address on it. But it was difficult to red since there were blood spots on the paper since the man was lying in his own blood.
"Tess I found something." Ai said as she stood upright. Tess glanced at her small partner as she rubbed her black coated hands on the pavement a little.
"Bring it here." Tess said as she turned her head over. Ai walked over as she held the paper in front of her.
"34 West High Street?" Tess read. She then rolled her eyes as Ai took the paper away. "Why does everything have High in it?" Tess asked. Ai shrugged her shoulders not answering her.
"We should check it out." Ai said. Tess nodded her head.
"Yeah… but after… I look at this print." Tess said as she pulled a piece of paper off of the pavement. There on the paper was an exact copy of the marks on the pavement. Ai and Tess went back to Dr Agasa's place. He still hadn't returned but Tess seated herself at Dr Agasa's desk scanning the print into the computer. Ai stood next to her as she placed the paper onto the desk.
It took hours to figure out what brand of tire this is. Tess stared at the computer till she went crossed eyed and had to look away. Tess rubbed her eyes as she looked at the computer again. She then went onto the internet and looked under Google and looked under tire marks. Soon enough there was a match.
"Ah! Good old fashion Google." Tess said. Ai who was standing behind and not looking at the screen turned to look at her.
"Really?" Ai asked. Tess nodded her head. "About time." she said. Tess turned around.
"Firestone." She said. Ai blinked.
"What?" she asked.
"The tire brand is Firestone." Tess answered. She turned to the computer and started to measure the markings. "They're a size R75-14 and made in Akron, Ohio." Tess said as she turned to Ai.
"In America." Ai said.
"Makes sense." Tess said. Ai looked at Tess. "The BMW came from America."
"But we don't know if they were put on here or in America." Ai said to her. Tess nodded her head as she smiled.
"That's why we invented the phone." Tess said smiling pulling Dr Agasa's phone toward her.
"You know the number?" Ai asked her. Tess picked up the phone about to dial when she smiled at Ai.
"Yeah. Back in America I had to change my tires so much. I used the same brand of tires and called them in." Tess said. Ai nodded her head as Tess dialed the number. "Yes hi. My name is Tess Moore and I'm an FBI agent in New York. I need the records of any tires that have been sent to Japan faxed to me… yes hold on a minute…" Tess looked at Ai.
"778892" Ai said. Tess smiled and mouthed the words, 'Thank you' to her.
"The fax number is 778892. When should I be getting them? Now, alright thank you have a great day." Tess hung up the phone as she shivered. "Polite people scare me sometimes…" Tess said. Ai and Tess turned toward the fax machine that was sitting in the corner of the room. In came the fax. Ai walked over as Tess stood up.
"They've sold that same brand of tires to three places in Tokyo." Ai said. Tess walked over as she stood behind Ai looking at the list.
"Alright, let's go." Tess said as she headed for the door with Ai following. Tess and Ai had asked someone off of the street to use their car. When they refused Tess showed them her badge and they quickly nodded their heads. Tess got into the driver seat and Ai into the other seat. Tess looked at Ai as she buckled her seat belt. "Seat belt." She said. Ai looked at her.
"Why?"
"Because I can be a crazy driver at times." Tess answered. Ai nodded her head quickly buckling her seat belt. Tess looked like one of those people to drive crazy when it boiled down to something like this. Tess pulled the car into the street and off to the first auto shop.
Tess and Ai parked in the parking lot in the back. They walked forward walking right into the garage where the men and women were working on the cars. Some stared and some were to busy to look. Tess opened the door to a waiting room/office looking place. She walked right up to the front desk and reached into her pocket. She pulled out her wallet opening it and tossing it onto the counter.
"My name is Tess Moore." She said to the clerk. The lady who was the clerk picked up the wallet. She looked at Tess and smiled.
"Who can I help you Miss Moore?" she asked. As Tess talked to the clerk Ai had noticed a bulletin board with pictures of cars. And walked forward and looked at the board. She looked at all the different cars when she came to a black BMW. She remembered the Tess did say it was a BMW that this name Jack was driving. She looked back to see that Tess had the clerk pretty busy with her questions. She pulled the picture down and placed it into her pocket as she walked back of to her.
"Yes I do have records but I cannot display them." The clerk said. Tess sighed as she leaned onto the counter.
"Look. A little boy's life is at stake." Tess said to her. The clerk shook her head.
"I'm sorry." She said. Tess looked down at Ai as she looked up at her. Tess came to her last conclusion. She looked back at the clerk.
"Look, this kid that is missing Is my son Conan Moore. Now the records that you hold of this BMW are important to me because it will help to finding my son." Tess said. Ai's eyes widened. She was also trying not to laugh. Jimmy, her kid? That was a joke. She couldn't picture Tess with any kids because of how she was. Tess made the clerk feel bad. She then nodded her head letting Tess and Au walk into the back.
"Right this way." She said. Tess smiled as they followed the clerk. Tess went through the records till she found the one she wanted.
"Thank you miss. I'll return it as soon as I can." Tess said. They left. Walking back to the car and getting in. Tess opened the record and looked through it.
"Well…?" she asked.
"It's a match alright." Tess said with a smile. Ai pulled the picture out of her pocket handing it to Tess.
"Is this the car?" She asked. Tess blinked as she looked over. She took the picture out of Ai's hands and looked at it nodding her head.
"Yeah. This is it! The Firestone tires and everything… where did you get this?"
"On the bulletin board." Ai answered. Tess turned the picture over seeing a little note written on it. She looked at Ai who looked a little confused. "What?" she asked.
"This message is clear. You are close. Very close. Come on closer… and I'll kill him." Tess read from the back. Tess placed her head back as she sighed. "Great."
"You're not going to let that stop you are you?" Ai asked. Tess shook her head as she slipped the picture into the record.
"No." Tess then pulled out of the parking lot. A man had come out of nowhere watching them leave wearing black sunglasses. He pulled a cell phone out of his pocket.
"She's got the picture. Yeah. Tess Moore isn't as dumb as you think she is Dojoma. Yes keep him drugged. Tess will be there in no time. As long as I lead her there." The man hung up and walked on down the street into a car and into the street following Tess and Ai. Tess put the car in park in front of the store again.
"You said something about another set of skid marks?" Tess asked. Ai nodded her head.
"Yeah, come on." Ai said. She stood up and got out of the car about to walk forward when she bumped into someone. She fell to the ground as a pair of black sunglasses fell in front of her. She picked them up as Tess got out of the car. She looked up to see a man standing in front of Ai. Hey eyes widened as Ai started to hand the sunglasses back to him.
"SHIHO! DON'T!" Tess shouted. The man looked at Tess with smirk. He grabbed onto the glasses and he shoved Ai onto the ground. Tess ran over helping her up quickly and then following the man. Ai followed close behind her. Tess flipped the edge of her jacket back as she reached for her gun. She grabbed onto it holding it in her hand as she ran.
The man led Tess and Ai on a wild goose chase. He led them through backs alleys and on the side walks of busy streets. He had brought Tess and Ai so far in Tokyo that they didn't know where they were anymore. Tess slowed down as she and man turned the corner. There in front of her was a warehouse. She turned to see Ai walking to her completely out of breath.
"You alright?" she asked Ai nodded her head.
"A little body really slows you down." Ai said to her. Tess nodded her head. She was also out of breath. They didn't know how far they ran. They could've run as far as 10 miles more or less. She looked forward gripping her gun in her hand.
Inside of the warehouse was Conan. Tied down to a chair and gagged. His head was resting on his upper chest. He was drugged. His sight was blurry and he couldn't hear the voices right. He looked up a couple times to see a blurry vision of a woman at the other end of the room they were in. She was leaning up against the wall with the automatic hand gun in her hands with her arms crossed. He did hear the door swing open and then slam shut. He glanced over to see the man who had kidnapped him.
"Is she here Jack?" the woman asked. The man that the woman called Jack nodded his head and walked forward.
"She's here alright. But the problem is she's got another midget with her." he said to the woman. The word midget ran through Conan's head for that was the only word her heard straight besides Tess. When he heard midget he thought of Ai. His head rolled a couple of times trying to lift it up but apparently… it was useless.
"What do we do about it?" the woman asked.
"Now Dojoma, what do you think we're going to do about it?" Jack asked as he walked to one end of the room picking up another gun.
"Kill her." Dojoma said. Jack nodded his head.
"Yup. And the midget."
"Kill her as well." Dojoma answered. Jack smiled as he walked over to her and placed his hand onto her shoulder.
"Good. Now. Take your place in the room. She'll come looking for us." Jack and Dojoma's voices disappeared as they also disappeared into the dark corner of the room.
Tess opened the door as dust flew up into the air with a push of the door. She coughed slightly as she walked forward. "JIMMY!" She called out. "JIMMY!" She called out again but only to hear her echo respond. Ai came in after her.
"Kudo! Are you here?" She called out but only her echo responded as well. Tess and Ai looked at each other.
"If we split up… it would be to dangerous considering they know your helping me out." Tess said.
"But on the other hand, we would cover more ground if we split up." They started to debate and decided that sticking together would be the safest thing. The first door they came to, they both lined themselves up against the wall. Tess pointed her gun out as she moved in front of the door and then kicked it open. No Jimmy, just dust. Tess sighed as she lowered her gun.
"He's not in here." Tess said. they checked every room on the bottom floor. No Jimmy again. They moved upward and checked the rooms upstairs. They then came to their last one. Ai lined herself up against the wall as Tess stood in front of the door pointing her gun straight. She kicked it down and what did she see? Conan bond and gagged to a chair. "JIMMY!" She shouted. His head lifted upwards weakly from the drugs they had given him. His vision was slightly clear, and he saw Tess and Ai emerged from the wall of the room. He shook his head.
"NOW!" Came a voice. Tess's eyes opened as the woman she knew as Dojoma and the man she knew as Jack popped out of their hiding places and opened fired. Tess grabbed onto Ai's hand and headed for cover behind some crates. Ai covered her ears some the loud bangs. Tess got up onto her right knee and laid her arms cross the crate they were hiding behind and started to shoot her gun. She ducked her head close in between her arms trying to stop from getting hit in the head. Bullets flew by her like crazy. Bullet holes appeared in the walls around her and in the other crates. Suddenly the shooting stopped. Tess knew that they were reloading. Tess looked down at Ai.
"Go!" Tess shouted. Ai looked up at her. "Go get Jimmy!" she shouted. Ai nodded her head. "I'll cover you!" Ai nodded her head again as she ran over to Conan running behind him. She started to untie the ropes that were tightly tied. As she stood there the firing started up again. Ai closed her eyes tightly once and a while as she felt the air blow by her from a missing bullet. Once she had untied Conan he had fell forward. Tess watched as she continued to shoot protecting them. Ai ducked down wrapping her around Conan as she laid on the ground covering her head from the bullets. Tess knew that Ai wasn't going to make it without one of them getting shot. She took the risky way. "Shiho!" Tess shouted out. She stopped firing as she stood up running to her. Ai lifted up her head as she saw Tess coming for her. Tess tossed her gun to the side as she dove rolling on the ground grabbing onto Ai and Conan landing behind some crates again. Tess pulled Ai and Conan close to her. She sat Indian style pulling them onto her lap wrapping her arms around them. Tess tucked her hand in as she and Ai closed their eyes tightly. The crate that they now took cover behind was much too small for her. The arch of her back from tucking down showed and she knew she was in danger. The firing stopped. Ai opened her eyes as she felt Tess's grip loosen around her and Conan. She looked up at her to see she was slipping down. She pulled herself off of Tess.
Tess was fine, she was just trying to get more cover for herself, but she still held onto Conan and Ai. Tess looked at Ai. "Shiho. I need you to do something."
"What?" she asked. tess placed Conan into her arms as she got up onto her knees.
"Watch over him." She answered. Ai looked at Tess funny. What was she thinking? She noticed Tess glancing at her gun that was on the right side of the room. Ai looked at Tess.
"You do understand that this is what they're waiting for you to do right?" Ai asked her. Tess nodded her head.
"Yeah I know. But I have to protect you and Jimmy." Suddenly Tess stood upright and leapt over Ai's head. Ai watched her as the firing begun once more. Ai pulled Conan towards her more as she watched Tess. She thought there was something wrong with Tess. Why would she do this to protect someone she only knew for two days? Why? Tess made no sense to Ai. It was like Tess was the 'mis' in 'misunderstood'.
Tess reached out for her gun but her arm was hit. Tess let out a scream of pain. But that didn't stop her. She kept on running. She stopped bending down grabbing onto her gun. She turned on her right foot setting herself onto her right knee. Tess went to shoot but… there were five shots fried and Tess was thrown into the wall. He gun fell out of her hands as she fell to her left side with her eyes closing. Ai's eyes widened as she watched Tess fall. By this time, Conan was aware at what was going on, but still to drugged to care. Ai crouched down into the darkness of the crate's shadow as Jack and Dojoma lifted themselves from their hiding places and walked toward Tess. Dojoma kept her gun pointed as Jack through his away. He kicked Tess in her stomach to see her reaction. But she didn't move. Ai couldn't believe it. Tess was dead. And she was killed trying to protect her and Jimmy. But why would she have done that? Tess was definitely the 'mis' in 'misunderstood' now.
"Now what?" Dojoma asked as she looked at Jack.
"Burry her body somewhere. I'll take care of the runts." Jack said. He walked towards Ai and Conan's crate as Dojoma reached down to Tess. Just when Dojoma was going to touch her, Tess's fist came straight up hitting Dojoma in her mouth and knocking her backwards. Her gun went flying into the air. Tess sat up as she wrapped her bloody arm around her stomach. She reached up with her good hand grabbing onto the gun. She stood up and pointed it at Jack.
"Yo JACK!" She called. Jack turned. His eyes widened when he saw Tess standing up. "This is the day. Three months ago, this was the day you killed my parents and nearly killed me! Now, I get to return the favor!" Tess pulled the trigger back. Millions of bullets came flying out. Ai wrapped her arms around Conan's head keeping him safe as she closed her eyes tightly. Jack was hit in the leg falling to the ground. He then struggled to get to his feet. Tess continued to shoot but she kept on missing. At this time Dojoma was also on her feet. They both managed to get out of there safe with only a bullet wound to the leg and a broke nose. Ai looked up as she leaned Conan on the crate. She stood up and ran over to Tess.
"Are you alright?" she asked. Tess nodded her head as she stood up. She begun to cough from the kick she was given to the stomach.
"Yeah I'm fine." Tess said as she lowered her bloody arm off of her stomach. Ai looked at Tess funny. She seemed to be fine. But how was that possible when she watched tess get shot 10 times.
"How… you were shot 10 times." Ai said. Tess slipped off her jacket and lifted up her shirt revealing a bulletproof vest.
"I was wearing a vest. I took it from the police station earlier today." Tess said. Ai smiled in relief. "Now, time to get out of here." Ai nodded her head. Ai helped Tess get the drugged Conan onto her back. Tess held him up with her good arm as Ai placed Tess's gun into her holster. They walked out of the warehouse and called the police.
Conan was brought the hospital. He wasn't allowed to leave till at least 1 to 2 days later after everything had happened. Tess was told to take it easy on the shooting considering she was nearly killed. And let's not forget the yelling she had gotten from Rachel when she found out that Haibara was allowed to help Tess. And Darien, he laughed about it.
Next Time on Case Closed: "… right…." Richard gets case. And this one… seems all too familiar to Tess. So she starts being cautious. Why? Tess I never like that? What is wrong with this case that has Tess slightly freaked out?
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