Chapter 18: Realization
When Ran woke up, she wasn't at home anymore, at least that's what she thought because everything around her was pitch black and she couldn't see a difference if she had her eyes closed or not, if she could even move them.
"Where am I? ", she tried to ask, but her mouth and tongue didn't react at all, much like the rest of her body. Apparently, nothing seemed to respond and so Ran felt absolutely nothing. It was like all that was there, were her thoughts flying around somewhere. But before she could really start to dread the absolute void of anything, she started to hear something. Perking her ears, glad to be able to sense ANYTHING, she could identify the noise as voices, gradually becoming louder.
"H- -d she do -is? W-at is -ong w-t- h-r?", was all she could understand, but the next sentence came after a small pause, loud enough not only to hear but to determine who spoke there too.
"I can't believe I regarded her as my best friend, this madwoman". Ran would have choked at her breath, if she could actually feel her lungs or throat, "this voice", she muttered, still in her mind, recognizing it, "Sonoko?"
The Suzuki heiress voice spoke up again, "To think that I didn't see it earlier. She really lied to us all.", and another voice answered with a kansai accent, "Yer right I could have never imagined it, but hearin' it right now, explains so much."
"Kazuha" Ran identified the second voice, "What are they talking about? Who is this "she"? It couldn't be, right?"
"Really now," Sonoko started again, "to think that the overly nice Ran Mori, would get off to children? Nobody could have known that?"
"No! NO!", Ran tried to scream, concentrating everything her brain could offer on moving her good damn mouth and after struggling for several seconds, in which her two friends continued shamelessly to make derisive remarks, her mouth tore open.
"NOOOOOOOO!" the yell that erupted, filled the darkness, echoing again and again, till the blackness cracked and broke like a window glass.
Suddenly, Ran found herself on the backseat of police car, hands cuffed and behind the slightly opened window her two friends stared down at her, disgust and loathing filling their eyes.
"Oh, look who woke up, Miss child-molester." Sonoko remarked, her voice heavily tainted with venomous acid. "How was your dream, attacked another child?", the blond questioned.
"What? No? I didn't do anything?" Ran replied, pleading to her friends to believe her.
"Ya told us this lie for god knows how long and now ya think it would still work." Kazuha yelled, anger in her voice, "I thought ya were a responsible person, Ran, heck I would have let ya watch over ma children, if I had any. And you, you..." Kazuha was interrupted in her rating by Sonoko's voice, cold as ice this time, "Don't waste your breath on her. She's mad, so no sense arguing with her"
Kazuha only gritted her teeth as answer, turning around in the next moment and stalking away, Sonoko following right behind her.
"NO, SONKO, KAZUHA WAIT! I CAN EXPLAIN!" Ran screamed after them, not understanding what was exactly happening.
"You can explain!?", another voice snapped and when Ran turned her head to the voice, she saw Edogawa-san, stalking over, her normally gentle face twisted in anger.
"YOU", she screamed pointing an accusing finger at Ran, "After everything you've done to my son, you dare to have an explanation for this?!"
"Her son? But that is…", horrible realization dawned over her, "No! NO, NOT C-"
Her thoughts were interrupted by sniffling sound, coming from the other side of the car.
Ran jumped to the other window, pressing her face against it looking straight at a small bundle, covered in blankets, only his head with the brown hair and the oversized glasses was not buried in the fabric and could be seen, sitting on the stairs to the detective agency.
"Conan!", she whispered, completely taken aback by the look on Conan's face.
His mouth was slightly open, his teeth shivering behind the lips, his normally neat brown hair was in a complete mess, a bandage wrapped around his head, and his eyes, His normally sky-blue, smart and cheerful eyes, were gone, replaced by two widened orbs, filled with panic, fear, pain and betrayal.
He looked so hurt, so broken, it nearly ripped Ran's heart apparat.
"CONAN" she called out, wanting to take the boy into her arms, spend him comfort, but upon hearing her voice, the boy tensed, his arms tightening around him, shaking his head violently form left to right and then a scream erupted.
"NOOO! LEAVE ME ALONE! NO! " he started to scream, falling to the ground whole body shaking, eyes going even wider, "NOO! STOP IT! IT HURTS!", his screams died down to a whimpering, but despite that Ran could hear clearly what he said next.
"Stop it, Ran-neechan!"
As always all right go to Gosho Aoyama, the original creator of the Detective Conan Universe.
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