Disclaimer: I don't own Case Closed. I wish I did or at least owned heartbreaker Jimmy Kudo.

He's Still Alive

Rachel awoke to her arm throbbing and what ever she was laying on was freezing cold and hard. She slowly opened her eyes and right away she saw she was in a cell with brick walls on both sides and bars where the door is. She sat up using her non-throbbing arm. She was sitting on a metal bed, and it was sticking out of one of the brick walls. 'I know where I am, the old abandoned jail on the outskirts of town. Jimmy and I must have been in the cellar-basement' Rachel thought. 'JIMMY' her brain yelled at her. 'The probably have already killed him' she began to cry out loud. Her cry echoed throughout the jail cells.

"What's your problem?" said a voice that sounded like it could really careless. Rachel observed that she was about eighteen maybe younger and she was as tall as Rachel "naturally" is (was). Her hair was a strawberry blond and was wearing a lab jacket. 'She must be one of the scientists here to study me' Rachel thought with a sigh. All Rachel said was "nothing really" she whimpered "What is your name?" she asked seeing that the women didn't seem too uncaring.

"Um, I don't think I should give out that information, but just so you have something to call me. Call me . . . What the other kid calls me . . . Ai."

"Hi Ai, I'm Rachel. How old are you?" she asked thinking she still seemed too young.

"I'm eighteen, you . . . seven or eight?" Ai asked to be polite but not actually caring how old the child was. 'What is up with her choice of clothing anyways? Must be poor!' Ai concluded.

"I'm seventeen" she said walking over to Ai was on the other side of the bars. She put her head down and by the way she was sniffling you could tell she was about to start crying again. "A drug was given to me and I became ten years younger" now there were tears fully coming out of the eyes.

"Uhh . . . please don't cry . . . whit a second you said a drug did this to you! So, that is the "special" side effect Gin & Vodica said my dry gives to the consumer" Ai stated.

"WHAT" Rachel yelled "you invented that horrible pill?!"

"I was forced to. And to this day don't remember how I got mixed up with the Black Organization" Ai explained.

"It's because of you Jimmy is dead" she kept yelling at Ai "It's all your fault" she was now whispered and filled to her knees and began to cry all over again for her true love.

"Why did they kill them" Ai wondered.

"He knew too much" Rachel whispered.

"Well I'm here to watch you and the others today, and I came over to tell you to be quite" Ai said coldly.

"I have a right to be sad, ya know?" Rachel said getting mad.

"Whatever" Ai said and walked away.

'Now what am I going to do, I have to get out of here somehow' Rachel thought. She walked back over to the warmless bed and layed down. 'I think I'll get some sleep first she had had a rough day and was exhausted.

"What's wrong with you" she heard Ai say into the cell next to hers.

Rachel fell asleep crying and crying throughout her sleep. 'Jimmy . . .' she dreamed.

Conan began to awake. His throat was swollen and he couldn't breath well. He sat up in shock at the fact that breathing was unbearable, but without air his lungs would burn. He needed water. Someone walked by. "Water" he quietly gasped with a dry throat. He was breathing heavily and began to get lightheaded due to lack of oxygen.

"This is the last favor I do for you mini teens" she complained stomping off. "Stupid kids, why did I get stuck babysitting? I'm a scientist not their mother . . ." Conan heard her mumbling while she walked away.

'Hope that means she's getting water' Conan prayed she was good enough of a bad guy.

About a minute later the young women returned with a large glass of water. She unlocked his cell to enter and handed him the glass. She watched as he chugged the water too fast and started to choke on his water. He was ok after a few seconds of coughing. He was now holding his hands around his neck growing and moaning.

"What's your name? Not that I want to befriend you like the girl next to ya thought." She asked and said.

"Conan" he said deciding that it would be best if she not know who he really is. "You mentioned a girl, there are others teenage aged kids here?" He wondered if the girl could be Rachel.

"Ya there are three of you in here, and twenty-two on the list that must have been shrunk too" she concluded.

'Wow there are quite a few of us out there' he thought. His mind came back to Rachel. "Is there a girl named Rachel here?" he asked with a dry voice.

"Uhh . . . ya. . . she is in the cell next to you." She said taking the glass from him and walked to the gate like door. "She's crying over someone named Jimmy." She said and began to walk away after locking the door.

"Wait, what's your name?" Conan asked.

"You can call me Ai" she said and finally walked away, glass in hand.

'Non-alcoholic name, must be one of the "nice" bad guys!' Jimmy concluded. He got off his metal bed and walked to the other side of the cell and to where the door is. He tried to squeeze his head through the jail bars but even as a kid his head was not going to fit. He could reach his arm threw the bars around wall and into Rachel's cell though. He could hear her crying with a light peaceful snore. 'Great she's sleeping' he thought. "Rachel" he whispered to wake her up. He heard her stir. "Rachel" he said louder.

"Jimmy?" she thought she was still dreaming or at least hallucinating the small hand that rounded the corner to her cell. "Jimmy" she said happily running to the hand and grabbing it with both of her hands. "I thought you were dead!"

"Nope, it's hard to get rid of me!" he said proudly. 'That's right, she fell unconscious before they said they were keeping me alive' Jimmy recalled. 'Poor Rach, she thought she had lost me . . . again.' He saddened at that thought. Conan's hand was becoming wet with Rachel's tears.

"Jimmy I'm so glad your alright' she whispered and kissed his hand many times afraid to let go. Her kisses sent a pleasant shivering ache through his stomach. "How are we going to get out of here?" she asked

"I don't know, perhaps Ai can help us out of here!" he thought out loud.

"She did seem rather nice!" Rachel added. Now they both had their arms between the bars, and their holding hands met in the middle. Their fingers were laced tighter and Conan was stroking her thumb with his. Sending aches of pleasure throughout Rachel's body.

"Ai's not going to help you guys" said a child's voice from the stall across the hall. Conan and Rachel saw a small figure walk slowly from the shadows. He had sandy brown hair and bright green eyes. He had on an army green camouflage pants and a burgundy jacket with a black tee shirt underneath. "Hay, I'm John but call me by my fake name, Alex."

REVIEWS ANSWERED:

TomikoChan I hate cliffhangers too! But that just seemed like the perfect place to end.

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