The Finale
Kogoro walked down the hall that led to Conan's room, carrying two cups of coffee. He didn't know which kind Ran liked, so he just got regular.
He opened the door to find the doctor from earlier that day about to stab his daughter. He dragged the man off of her, only to have the scalpel stabbed into his leg.
"More interuptions!" The doctor pulled the blade out of Kogoro's leg as they fought on the ground. Blood spurted from the wound.
Damn, it must've hit a vein or something.
While they struggled over the scalpel, Ran crawled to Conan's bed and hit the help button, which had been installed after last night's attempt on the boy's life.
The doctor got the blade and slashed downwards at Kogoro. He moved away just in time as it cut open his shirt. On his knees, Kogoro tackled the crazed man, trying to wrestle away the blade. His hands were cut badly in the attempt, but he didn't feel it. He finally got hold of it, only to have it knocked out of his hand and fly across the room. The doctor dived for the blade, but Kogoro grabbed him around the waist and hurled him back to the ground. After giving the doctor several punches Kogoro himself tried to get at the scalpel, only to be taken down by the doctor.
Ran kept pressing the button as the life and death struggle unfolded. The drug had completly exhausted her body, like running for miles. It was getting hard to focus her eyes. Mabey she could lay down, close her eyes just for a second...NO! She had to help her father and save Conan! Damnit, why wasn't anybody coming?
Scene Change
Inspector Meguri walked up to the hospital elevator and pressed the six to go the floor Conan was on. He had been halfway home when he realized he had forgotten his hat. He needed that hat. It preserved the illusion that he still had hair and he just felt naked without it. He rarely took it off, except in situations where it was polite to do so and it was someone he knew, like Ran-chan earlier that day. Just as the door closed, he caught a glimpse of security running to catch the elevator, but they didn't make it in time.
Now knowing something was going on, he silently willed the elevator to go faster, but to no avail.
Scene Change
Ran shook her head from side to side, trying to get rid of the tiredness. She tried to stand, but her legs felt like they were made of lead. Finally the same felling came to her arms and hands, and she couldn't press the button anymore.
Dad, Conan, I'm sorry.
Kogoro and the doctor continued their battle. The detective was stronger, but he was becoming weak from blood loss. The doctor, however, showed little fatigue dispite the heavy blows Kogoro had landed. If anything, the man seemed elated by the threat to himself. He was actually smiling!
Kogoro's vision was begining to blur, he was loosing blood fast, to fast. He knew he had only a few seconds before he passed out, and then what would stop this guy from killing Ran and Conan? Summoning the last of his strength, he made one final lunge at the madman.
Scene Change
Meguri ran out as the doors opened on the sixth floor. As he rounded a corner he was joined by the security from before, they having taken another elevator.
They entered Conan's room to find an appaling scene. Ran, Kogoro, and a doctor were dead. The floor was covered in blood. Meguri fell to his knees. He was too late.
"This one's alive!" he head a guard exclaim. Meguri opened his eyes to see the man with his fingers to Kogoro's neck. "I need a doctor here now!"
The other security went to find one while the first guard checked Ran. "This one too!" He then checked the doctor, but realized it was futile even before then.
The man had a scalpel blade buried in his chest. It had been pushed past the blade, so that only half the handle protruded from him. He gave a wet, hacking cough that sprayed blood all over himself, then lay still.
Scene Change
A search of the doctor's home found books on poison, poisoners, and serial killers of all kinds, along with numerous poisons and drugs stolen from the hospital. An examination of hospital records showed that Kogoro had been right. At least twenty deaths in the hospital over the last five years, most of them children, seemed to fit the doctor's pattern. And there were probably more.
Why had he done it? None could say what madness may have whispered in his ear. Certainly not the doctor himself, who was officially said to have fallen on his blade. Kogoro himself couldn't remember much of the incident, and Meguri didn't press the issue.
The detective required several transfusions of blood, but surgeons were succesfull in saving his life. Ran had to be put on life-support for a few hours, but eventually her body was able to heal itself. She was very weak at first, but reseved a burt of energy when a nurse told her that Conan was awake.
The chibi detective couldn't believe all that had happened while he was under. Mad doctors? Serial killers? Kogoro saving Ran and him?
The three shared a room, at the request of Ran. Ran didn't really need to stay, but was aloud to so she could be with Conan and her father.
Things were a bit awkward between Conan and Kogoro at first. Neither knew quite were to begin. It was only after Conan admonished Kogoro for hitting on a nurse with the old "It's time for my sponge-bath" routine and Kogoro telling Conan to mind his own buisness that things seemed to return to normal between them.
A few days later Conan and Kogoro were given clean bills of health and allowed to go home. Kogoro said he would miss the pretty female nurses and doctors, and in truth some of them were sad to see him go. They also gathered around Conan and talked about how cute he was, which he didn't really mind.
As Ran opened the door to the agency for them, Conan was glad to be home.
The End
I don't know if Meguri is bald, or much about the real-life affects of epinephrin. I just made it up. Same with the doctor. While he is based on actual serial poisoners, it is not meant to be an accurate profile of anything. And yes, the hospital should have had a seperate ward for children, but that would have ruined it.
I never realized how hard fight scenes are to write until now. Is a scalpel blade in a lung enough to kill you? I don't know and don't care.