Author's Note: I'm way overdue on the chapter but I deeply apologize for making you, my fellow readers, wait almost more than half a year. I'm truly sorry.

I finally overcame the Writer's block I had on this story. That and the fact that I made other fanfictions as well, which also delayed the progress of the chapter.

Anyways, thanks for still being able to follow the story, I appreciate those who waited this long for me to update. Now, story time…


As they strolled the park as a shortcut to their destination, the two walked slowly, enjoying their surroundings of the park's meadow, the multiple cherry blossom trees around them and a few small ponds here and there.

Both Conan and Ai held each other's hands, enjoying the warmth they both gave each other as they strolled down the park.

Even though the park had lights scattered around, making it visible for civilians and travelers to walk through the park, the full moon's light had also made it visible enough for anyone to see. It made the fireflies glow vibrantly in the meadows and the pond to be mesmerizing as the moon's image was reflected upon it. "It's beautiful out here, isn't it?" Ai broke the silence.

"Yeah," Conan agreed. He observed his surroundings, enjoying the sight the two could see. "This place has a better scenery during the night under a full moon."

Just a few meters ahead laid a wooden bench. "Can we stop for a second? These heels are killing me…" Ai asked.

"Yeah, it's fine." Ai sat down first and Conan took the seat right next to her.

She took off her heels, revealing her sock less feet. "Phew, one more minute in them and they would've died." Ai sighed relief, giving oxygen to her feet.

"I can understand the dress and what not, but what I don't understand is why the heels?" Just like most men, Conan would never be able to understand the context between a woman and their choice of clothing. As a detective, it baffled him.

"It matches," Ai smirked at the man. A typical answer he'd expect from her. "Probably not the answer you were looking for, huh, oh great detective?" Now she mocked him.

"Haha, very funny." His sarcasm showed.

"Sorry, just couldn't resist." She chuckled.

"Hey look." The thirteen year old nodded towards the direction in which to look. Ai turned and saw that a family of ducks walked towards them.

3 small yellow little ducklings right behind the mother duck, walking in a straight line. "Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!" They all quacked one after the other.

As they walked right past the couple, only one of the small ducklings approached them where they sat. "Quack!"

"Aww, how cute." Ai said as she and Conan hunched over to look at the duckling who stared right back at them. As tempting as she wanted to grab and pet the little yellow baby duck, she was rather afraid the mother duckling would come back and attack her in some way.

Conan saw her hesitation. "You want to pet it, don't you?" He asked her.

"I do, but won't the Mother duckling… I don't know, attack me?" She told him.

"Yeah, you're probably right."

After a few seconds of just standing in front of them, the duckling wandered back to it's family. "Quack! Quack!" It said repeatedly as it went away from them.

"He was cute." Ai said.

"Yeah, he was," Conan agreed with her. "We should probably get going, don't want to get there too late."

As he was the first to get up, he helped her put her heels on. Liking that one Cinderella scene where the handsome prince finds his princess, he placed her heels gently back on her feet. "Don't I feel like a cliché now?" She chuckled at the cheesy moment.

"Not a cliché, a princess." Conan smoothly corrected her, helping his princess back on her feet.

Ai blushed at his comment. She could see the man happily stare at her, which made her blush immensely more. "…" She was at a loss of words.

"You'd be an ice princess at that," he added more. "Cold nature on the outside, but humbly warm and kind hearted on the inside."

"Then I'm guessing you're my charming prince who found and stole the warmth of my heart, huh?" She gave in to the fantasy as well.

"Ah yes," he stood on the small wall that overlooked the pond next to them as they walked. "The most handsome of princes, bravest of the bunch."

"Maybe we should write our own little story." She suggested, laughing while the man did funny bravado gestures on top the thick small wall.

"Yeah." His laugh mixed with hers.

Suddenly, a man with a generic looking book-bag sprinted right between the two. He startled the two with his loud stomps to the ground. "I'm sorry!" He yelled as he walked right past them.

"Shit!" With the man's action, Conan began to lose his balance on the small wall.

Ai quickly grabbed and clenched on his arm, in hopes of bringing him to the pavement instead of the pond. "Oh god…" It was no use and now, bringing her with him, the two fell into the pond.

It wasn't deep but it was still deep enough for the two to get utterly drenched. "Great, just great!" Conan removed his gadget glasses and wiped away the water over his face.

"All this work, just to drenched it water…" Ai pouted as she just sat in the water in defeat. Her make up was washed away with the water and her hair was now all over the place.

"Here, let me help you up." Conan was the first to stand up, helping his lovely princess of the water.

They walked right over to the pond's shore and quickly dried themselves up. Conan took off his jacket and twisted it to take off the water. Ai did the same to hers.

"If it's not someone dying, then it's something else entirely that messes up the date…" Ai sighed. She had high hopes for the date to not be interrupted by anything, too bad this had to happened of all things.

"Honestly, I would've preferred someone dying than this…" Conan continued to dry his jacket while Ai gave him a killing glare. His choice of words were pretty poor at the moment, considering their current situation. He turned to look at her only to meet I've stinging glare. "D-Did I s-say something wrong?"

"Ugh, just forget it." She sighed.

Everything they've done, all washed out into the pond. "Hey, I'm sorry about this." Conan placed his wet hand on her shoulder, comforting her. He knew this date meant everything to her.

"…" She didn't try to say anything to him.

"Hey look at me." He placed both his hands over her shoulders, facing her.

"… what?!" She said, irritated at the moment.

"You are not the only one that was looking forward to this date, Haibara," he told her, looking straight into her eyes. "I'm sorry this had to happen, and if there was any way to reverse this… mess, then I would've done it in a heartbeat."

His words were comforting but she still couldn't help to be disappointed of this certain calamity. "Maybe this is a sign…"

"…" Of all things being said, those were the least words Conan didn't want to hear. "No."

"No what?" She heard him mutter that word.

"If this is a sign… if this… if us is being stopped by forces we can't see… then I would never ever stop loving you!" He told her.

"Kudo…" She placed her hand over his on her shoulder. Her heart warmth as he told her how he felt.

"My feelings for you are real," he continued. "If the gods can't see that, if the gods continue to throw whatever at us just so this can never happen, I would never stop loving you." He leaned in, hugging her. She didn't hesitate to return the hug. "These signs… whatever you want to call them can kiss my butt."

"I love you too." She kissed him on the lips.

Though they were still drenched in water, it didn't matter the world to them. Their feelings, the love they had for each other, it won over this disaster.

"Heh," he broke the kiss, still in their hug. "I'm guessing we're going to have to start this over tomorrow now, huh?"

"I don't mind." She smiled at him. Even if their first attempt at their date ended without making it to their destination, it didn't matter to her, she knew they would keep trying until they got right.

"Well, I guess we can go back to Agasa's and just, I don't know, watch a movie?" He suggested.

Before she can say anything three loud gunshots were heard from a distance. "BANG! BANG! BANG!" One after another.

"Oh no." She knew exactly in that moment what was going to happen.

"…" Conan held his tongue. He looked at Ai, hoping for her approval to go investigate.

She didn't really have time to debate this, so without much thought into it, she nodded. "Let's go then, detective."

"Alright."

The two headed into the direction in which they hear the gunshots. After a minute of wandering around, the man that had bumped into them earlier was on the ground in his own pool of blood.

Conan and Ai ran towards him. Their drenched clothing made if difficult for them to move, especially Ai in her dress, nonetheless, they made it to the man's side.

"Sir, are, you okay?" Conan asked as he put pressure on the man's gunshot wound. There was only one entrance, so he had to assume the other two gunshots he heard missed.

"Guh…" The man coughed up blood, unable to speak.

"Haibara, check if he has a phone and dial 119!" Conan continued to put pressure on the gunshot wound.

"O-On it!" She searched in his inner pockets and found a cellphone and immediately dialed the emergency number.

"Sir, stay with me!" He held one hand on his gunshot wound while the other moved the man's head to try to kept him conscious.

"M-My bag…" He finally said something.

"Hello, I need an ambulance! A man has been shot here at Central Park!" Ai said in the background.

"Your bag? Where is it?" Conan looked around. No signs of a bag nearby.

"Okay thank you!" She hung the phone up. "An ambulance is coming!"

"It had… my fiancé's… engagement… ring…" He continued to mutter.

He was losing blood and fast as well. Conan couldn't stop it from bleeding, even with the pressure he put on it with both his hands now. "Sir, don't die on me!"

"You tell her… you tell my… wife… that I love her…" And with those final words, his soul ceased to exist.

"No… no… no!"


Author's Note: I'm still kind of experiencing Writer's Block on this story, hence why is pretty short compared to the other chapters.

Nonetheless, I really hope you enjoyed it even after all this wait.

Hope the next chapter doesn't take as long as this, so see you next time!