In Today's Case: Loving Goodbyes
Jimmy sat there on the floor holding onto Tess tightly. He could feel her blood seeping through his shirt touching his flesh. Jimmy tried tostop the bleeding from her chest by placing his hand onto her chest and applying pressure but it didn't work. Jimmy tapped Tess's cheek a few times but she didn't wake up.
Jimmy began to cough hard. He placed his hand over his mouth trying to block the thick, black smoke from entering his lungs. But it was no use; the smoke had gotten through from in between his fingers.
"Hey! There are a couple of teens over here!" Jimmy heard someone shouting. He turned his head thinking that the heat of the fire had gotten to him. But there were real people. Firefighters came into the room blocking their faces from the fire. Jimmy saw them and nearly smiled.
"Someone give him an oxygen mask!" the firefighter in front shouted. Someone in the back came running up to Jimmy placing a mask onto his face. Jimmy closed his eyes as he took in the clean air. He felt Tess being ripped out of his arms. He looked over to see two firefighters carrying her by her arms and legs.
"Be careful!" Jimmy shouted. "She's injured!" he added.
"Don't worry about her." the firefighter who gave him the mask said. Jimmy turned his head to look at him. "We'll get her out safely. But right now you should be worrying about yourself."
The firefighter pulled Jimmy to his feet. "Hey! There's a body over here!"
"Leave it! This place is going to collapse!" the leader of the firefighters shouted. They all left the warehouse as the roof then collapsed.
Jimmy was now sitting on an ambulance with an oxygen tank next to him as he held the oxygen mask on his face. He breathed slowly, letting the clean air enter his lungs. The chief of the firefighters walked up to him removing his helmet. Jimmy looked at him and noticed it was the man who had given him the oxygen mask in the warehouse. The chief sat down next to him and Jimmy looked at him.
"We took the girl to thehospital." He said. Jimmy removed the mask to speak.
"Is she going to be okay?" Jimmy asked. The chief sighed.
"We don't know. Her wounds looked critical." He said. "I need to know what happened in there." Jimmy looked away. He placed the mask onto his face taking a few more breaths of the clean oxygen. As he looked away from the chief he saw Gin being placed into a squad car. Darien and Ai were being loaded into one ambulance and then taken away to be checked out. "You don't have to tell me now. We need to get you to the hospital to be checked out."
Jimmy arrived at the hospital and appeared to be fine. He sat in the waiting room staring at his blood covered shirt. Darien had soon appeared next to him on crutches with Ai standing next to him. Jimmy looked up at them.
"Now I know how Tess feels about these crutches." Darien said with a smile. Jimmy just looked away.
"Kudo…" Ai started looking at his shirt. Jimmy blinked as he looked down.
"This isn't my blood." Jimmy said. Darien sighed as he looked behind. He took a couple of hops backward seating himself into the chair across fromJimmy as he laid his crutches on the floor in front of him.
"We figured as much." Darien said. Ai hopped up onto the seat next to him. She looked at Jimmy's ashy face as he stared at his shirt.
"I'm sure she'll be okay Kudo." Ai said. Jimmy glanced at her.
"I hope so as well." Jimmy said. Darien glanced at the floor and then looked up at Jimmy.
"Jimmy…" Darien called. Jimmy and Ai looked at him as he continued to speak. "You really care about her don't you?" he asked. Jimmy nodded his head as he looked back down at his shirt.
"Yeah… I do." Jimmy answered.
"Jimmy?" Jimmy lifted up his head as he looked over by the door to see Rachel standing there with Richard, Inspector Maguire, and Dr Agasa. Darien leaned back into the chair placing his hands onto the armrests as Ai watched Rachel approach them. "When did you…?"
"I never left Rachel." Jimmy answered before Rachel could get her question out. Rachel blinked a few times.
"What do you mean you never left Kudo?" Richard asked crossing his arms. Rachel glanced at her father as she looked back at Jimmy.
"Exactly what I mean." Jimmy said looking up at Richard. "I never left town. In fact, I never left you guys." He added.
"Where's Conan?" Inspector Maguire asked. Jimmy stood up standing in front of him.
"Inspector… you're looking at him." Jimmy said softly. They all gasped except for Darien, Ai, and Dr Agasa. "I need to tell you the truth."
Everyone stared at Jimmy as he continued. "I was Conan Edogawa all along." Jimmy said.
"How?" Rachel asked as shepulled her hand to her chest in shock.
"Gin and Vodka from the Black Organization slipped me this pill at the carnival we went to Rachel that's when I said that I would be right back. But… when they gave me the pill they left me for dead and come to find out that… I shrunk to a kid size."
"Gin was the man we arrested at the warehouse." Inspector Maguire said.
"I know… I was there." Jimmy said.
"Why were you there?" Richard asked.
"I was there to save Tess."
"What do you mean Jimmy?" Inspector Maguire asked. Jimmy sighed.
"Remember the research Tess was doing?" Inspector Maguire nodded his head. "Well she was really gathering up information about Jack and Dojoma. Jack was the man who had killed her parents and Dojoma was his hit woman. Tess had gone after him at the warehouse and I used my glasses to find her."
"Your… glasses?" Rachel repeated.
"I can explain that one." Dr Agasa said as he stepped forward. Everyone turned and looked at the doctor as he folded his hands behind his back and started explaining. "When Jimmy came to me the day he was drugged I didn't believe him at first. When he had used his clue finding skills and told me what I was doing before he had gotten there I knew it was him. Anyway, I made gadgets for Jimmy to use to help him track down the Black Organization. Like the Stun Gun Watch, the Solar Powered Skateboard and more."
"I was also the one who solved all of your cases Richard." Jimmy said. Richard looked at him. "That's why I was never around when the cases were being solved by you."
"And… I was the one who created the pill." Ai said standing up. "I had made some kind of mistake when creating it. But I was being blackmailed into creating the pill for Gin and Vodka. I wanted to kill myself so I took my pill and then I woke up to find myself like this." Ai explained.
"And I was the last to know about Jimmy." Darien said as everyone turned to him. "I found out when C- I mean Jimmy was kidnapped. When we found Tess on the floor I took something out of her hand and it read: Better Kudo then Darien."
"So… Tess knew about you as well Jimmy?" Rachel asked. Jimmy sighed as he nodded his head.
"Yeah… she knew when she first arrived. A couple of days later I think it was after the murders at Sirena's villa Tess had found out who I was." Jimmy answered.
"If you were drugged… then how did you get the antidote?" Richard asked.
"Yeah I want to know about that as well." Inspector Maguire said.
"Remember that bottle of Sake Harley had with him?" Jimmy asked. Everyone nodded their heads. "Well Tess had managed to get a hold of it one night-…"
"Let me explain the rest Jimmy." Dr Agasa said. "Tess had came to me one night with the bottle of Sake. With some other materials Tess was able to come up with an antidote for Shiho and Jimmy."
"Shiho?" everyone repeated.
"Me." Ai said.
"NURSE!" A doctor came running out of a room with his gloves and clothes covered in blood. "WE NEED MORE BLOOD AND NURSES! AND HURRY!" Jimmy's eyes widened as he watched the doctor run back into his E.R room. The room that Jimmy knew was Tess's.
"TESS!" Jimmy shouted as he ran towards the room. Rachel watched him as he stood in the doorway.
Jimmy watched as thenurses and doctors worked on Tess. Her blood was everywhere on the stretcher and on the nurses and doctors. Jimmy's eyes widened as he watched Tess reach a flat line.
"SOMEONE! HELP ME WITH CPR!" The head doctor shouted. Jimmy ran into the room pushing one nurse to the side.
"Don't you dare die Tess!" Jimmy shouted as he looked at her bloody body. The doctor ordered someone to take Jimmy out of the room. Once he was removed he stood there at the doors of the E.R watching them work on Tess.
Darien stood up picking up his crutches. He walked over to Jimmy placing his hand onto his shoulder pulling him away from the door. Rachel looked down as she seated herself next to Ai.
They all waited in the waiting room. Jimmy had his hands folded staring at the floor. He would glance back at his hands that were covered in soot and had some spots of Tess's blood on them. Rachel sat next to him. She offered him a rag to clean his face off from the soot but he refused. Richard stood up with his back leaning up against the wall with Inspector Maguire standing in front of him with his side facing Richard. Dr Agasa sat next to Darien as Darien sat in his seat across from Jimmy.
They waited and waited. Soon the same doctor that had ordered Jimmy out of the room emerged from the E.R taking off his gloves and mask. Jimmy saw him approaching them and quickly stood up. Richard pulled himself off of the wall. Everyone who was sitting looked in the doctor's direction.
"How is she?" Richard asked walking up to him. The doctor sighed.
"She's stable at the moment. But… the bullet wounds to the chest have caused some major inner bleeding that we can't stop. And she's also lost a good amount of blood." the doctor explained. "She'll have to be transported to get the right surgery she needs."
"To where?" Jimmy asked.
"To another hospital. Maybe to one where she comes from. In her back pocket we found her wallet and then we realized who she was." The doctor said handing Richard Tess's wallet. Richard took it staring at it.
"Can we see her?" Rachel asked from her seat. The doctor shook his head.
"No, she's much to critical. We want to keep her room empty from visitors in case we need to get in there." The doctor explained.
"She's that bad?" Darien asked. The doctor nodded his head.
"Yes she is. She might have to be transported to America." The doctor asked.
"Why can't we give her blood?" Richard asked. "I'm her uncle."
"She has a very rare blood type. She's an AB- without prostration. She's one out of every2,000 people who have her blood type." The doctor said. Rachel andRichard looked away knowing that they didn't have her blood type. No one had it out of any of her friends and family. "But… which one of you is Jimmy Kudo?" the doctor asked.
"I am." Jimmy said. The doctor looked at him.
"She kept on mumbling your name through the surgery… maybe you should go see her." the doctor said pointing tothe E.R room. Jimmy nodded his head as he walked forward and entered the room.
He saw Tess lying there with her eyes closed. Her body was hooked to a heart monitor and an I.V. with an oxgyen mask on her face.Jimmy stood there looking down at Tess's soot covered face. "Tess?" he called. Tess's head jerked to the right from his voice. "Hey… Tess."
Tess opened her eyes slightly to see Jimmy covered in soot. "Jimmy… you're… dirty." Tess said faintly.
"And so are you." Jimmy said. Jimmy could see how weak and how much painTess was just by looking in her eyes.
"Tell me something… Jimmy…"
"What?"
"How… how bad do I… look?" Tess asked. Jimmy looked at her. Her face was extremely pale due to the lack of blood. Her shirt was cut off as she laid there on the stretcher with her chest bandaged. Her exposed arms were covered in soot. The answer was… she looked horrible.
"Not… that bad." Jimmy said. Tess let out a small laugh. She clenched her eyes in pain. Jimmy leaned forward placing his hands onto the bed."Tess, you alright?" He asked. Tess nodded her head silently.
"What did… the doctor say…?" Tess asked closing her eyes.
"He said that… the bullet wounds to the chest have caused major inner bleeding that can't be stopped. And you might have to be transported to get the surgery you need." Jimmy explained to her.
"Where… am I… going?" Tess asked.
"You might be… going back to America." Jimmy answered looking down. Tess opened her eyes as she looked at him. She saw the sadness in his eyes. She knew that he didn't want her to leave and she didn't want to leave either. She didn't want to leave him.
Tess lifted up her hand slowly. Jimmy noticed her moving and he grabbed onto her hand. "If I have to leave… then… I have to…." Tess said softly. Jimmy nodded his head.
"I understand that." Jimmy said. "What I'm worried about is you possibly dying on the plane or something."
Tess smiled weakly as she tried to grip his hand. "You… you worry to much." Tess said as she closed her eyes. Jimmy watched as her head rolled to the left. He thought that she had died but he could hear the heart monitor still beeping.
"Come on Mr. Kudo." The doctor said entering the room. "She needs her rest before we transport her into a room." He added. Jimmy nodded his head as he let go of Tess's hand placing it next to her. He walked out of the room taking one last glance at Tess before leaving.
The next day Jimmy showed up at the hospital after Rachel and Richard had left. Darien was still there sitting in Tess's room watching her sleep. Jimmy entered the room. Darien looked over and smiled at him.
"Is she awake?" Jimmy asked in a whisper.
"You… don't have to whisper… Jimmy." Tess spoke through her oxygen mask. Jimmy smiled happily to know that Tess still had her attitude. He walked forward placing his hands into his pockets standing next to Darien.
"How are you feeling?" Jimmy asked. Tess opened her eyes looking at Jimmy.
"Crapy." Tess answered. Darien looked up at Jimmy.
"They gave her something so she'll sleep on the flight to America." Darien explained to him. Jimmy nodded his head.
"So she's definitely going?" Jimmy asked. Darien nodded his head again.
"Yeah. They say they got the best medicine there and they'll be able to stop her inner bleeding." Darien said. Jimmy nodded his head.
"Hey… Jimmy…" Tess said trying to keep her eyes opened. Jimmy looked up at Tess.
"Yeah Tess?" Jimmy asked.
"Make sure you don't forget about me." Tess said softly. Jimmy nodded his head.
"How can I forget you? You're image is burned in my head." Jimmy said with a sly smile on his face. Tess glared a little.
"You're not funny." Tess said weakly.
"Jimmy Kudo?" Jimmy and Darien turned there heads to a voice. There standing at the end of the room near the doorway was a small around man and a tall thin young male. "I'm Mr Johnson, Tess's chief." Jimmy blinked as Mr Johnson held out his hand.
"Oh, hello." Jimmy said reaching out shaking Mr Johnson's hand.
"I'm thanking you for trying to keep Tess in line. You did a better job then I do. She's hard to control." Mr. Johnson said with a smile. Jimmy smiled slightly. The man next to him then held out his hand.
"I'm Jake Goodall, Tess's partner." Jake said. Jimmy nodded his head shaking hands.
"I believe you know my name already." Jimmy said to him. Jake nodded his head.
"I do." Jake said. Tess looked at them as she then removed her oxygen mask.
"What are you two doing here?" Tess asked. Mr Johnson walked forward around Jimmy.
"We came to get you." Mr. Johnson answered. Jake pulled his hand away from Jimmy he then placed his hands in the pockets of his tan trench coat.
"When we went to go visit you're uncle he told us that you were in the hospital. So we came here." Jake added. Tess nodded her head as she looked at them both.
"Angry sir?" Tess asked. Mr Johnson shook his head as he folded his hands behind him.
"No Tess. I'm not. Any of us would've done the same thing if that happened to our parents." Mr Johnson spoke.
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Jimmy, Rachel, Richard, and Darien stood in the runway of the airplane that was taking Tess, Mr Johnson, and Jake back to America. But Darien stood next to Tess because he was going with her.
Rachel walked up to her cousin bent over and hugged her. Rachel felt like crying when she felt Tess's weak grip around her upper body, that same grip that use to be so strong.
"See ya Tess." Rachel said.
"Bye… Rachel." Tess said weakly. Richard walked up to her with his hands in his pockets. He stood to the right of her.
"I don't want you doing anything like this again." Richard demandedof her. Tess smirked a little.
"You're not in America watching me." Tess said. Richard felt like yelling but he didn't. He just smiled at her. He tapped her hand.
"See ya latter Tess." Richard said. Tess nodded her head. Jimmy walked up to her looked at her in her eyes. Her face was still pale and Jimmy could still see that she was in pain. Tess waved her hand for him to come closer. Jimmy bent down. Tess reached up as far as her weak body would go planting a kiss on his cheek.
"Bye Jimmy…" Tess said. Jimmy stood upright with a smile on his face.
"Bye Tess." Jimmy said.
"I don't want to come back here and see you as Conan Edogawa again or some other little kid." Tess said lifting up her weak finger at him.
"And I don't want to find out that you're keep secrets when you come here again." Jimmy said with his hands in his pockets. Tess waved to him as he waved back as he watched her being loaded into the airplane.
Rachel, Richard, and Jimmy watched the plane take off from inside the airport. Rachel and Richard left once the plane left the pavement but Jimmy stuck around. He watched the plane till it disappeared into the air. Jimmy pulled his hand out of his pocket placing it onto his cheek. He would never forget, Tess's loving goodbye.
The End