(A/N) This took me a horrendously long time, I know. Sorry. "Untitled" and various other time-consuming roadblocks have kept me occupied for all of…what, four months?

But hey, I'm in time for Christmas.

Disclaimer: I'm lazy.

File 4

#26 – Lost
They had taken it, she had disappeared despite the promise he made her give, and he had lost her forever…or not, for he activated the tracking glasses, grinned with a touch of sadness, and whispered aloud to the waiting silence: "Don't run away from your fate."

#27 – Metal
It made plows, sickles, swords, guns…she had never seriously considered the idea that it could be used to create far different things until he gave her the pendant.

#28 – New
Miyano Shiho was a student at his school, and was having a harder time adjusting to the new life than she had anticipated – the biggest problem, she discovered, was finding a way to explain her connection to Shinichi…especially since the questioner was Ran.

#29 – Old
Shinichi shrugged on his school-uniform jacket, reveling in the unfamiliar feel of the material, then tromped down the stairs to eat breakfast, reveling in the unfamiliar length of his legs, and then walked outside to join Shiho for the walk to school, reveling in the familiar grin on her face.

#30 – Peace
Sun shining, birds chirping, neighborhood kids leaving for school, passing cars representing busy people on the way to work, and the sound of an explosion as Agasa tinkered with something in the next room: this, they agreed, was peace.

#31 – Poison
The walls were still white, the hearts were still black, and everything was just like before…but not; and Sherry tried to figure out which life had poisoned the other.

#32 – Pretty
He never called her pretty, and she would've thought less of him if he had, but she was inordinately pleased when he actually hit the person who insulted her, instead of ignoring them as she had been about to.

#33 – Rain
It brought bad memories as well as good, because anything can happen in the obscurity of rainfall – Almost anything, she amended, because rain can't bring back the dead, only mourn them.

#34 – Regret
She stared at the deceptively small pill in her hand, closed her eyes, picked up the glass of water, and fervently hoped she would not regret this decision…for long.

#35 – Roses

They were her favorite, of course, the blood red ones, but they were the most common type and she was tired of seeing them; so she was pleasantly surprised when he brought red snapdragons instead.

#36 – Secret
Conan was getting tired of lying to the world, to himself, to Ran; he was getting tired of carrying around a secret that was slowly smothering him, choking him, killing him…so he surprised both of them when he saw the tiny chemist's exhaustion and told her to slow down.

#37 – Snakes
He had nothing against snakes, so he felt kind of sorry for the poisonous one currently heading for Ayumi: Ai had noticed it.

#38 – Snow
It made her think of Gin, which made her think of the Organization, which made her think of the past, which made her think of her sister…needless to say, she didn't like it much – until a certain group of kids led by a not-kid made it a point to involve her in a snowball fight.

#39 – Solid
Conan and Ai had been with Agasa all day, but due to the identity of the victim they did not have a solid alibi.

#40 – Spring
"What happens after snow melts?" he asked her, after hearing a similar question somewhere; and she responded with the correct answer he had never expected her to give.

#41 - Stable
She was the only one who didn't laugh when the horse bucked him off, but then she had been trained to recognize injuries and knew immediately that his arm was broken – which didn't stop her from teasing him mercilessly about bringing down a international underground syndicate but losing to a horse.

#42 – Strange
Conan wasn't wearing a bowtie.

#43 – Summer
Black water pistols were great fun, she decided.

#44 – Taboo
With Ai it was her sister, and with Conan it was "nee-chan," but during one of their midnight conversations they surprised themselves when Shiho spoke fondly of Akemi, and Shinichi recounted a funny childhood story involving Ran.

#45 – Ugly
"That was a dangerous, stupid, idiot thing to do, and you're…!" and he continued the rant for almost a minute straight, after which she merely blinked at him and asked with mock innocence, "Which is why you knocked unconscious someone who said similar things a couple days ago, right?"; and then it was his turn to blink at her, as his face went from red with anger to a blazing crimson he couldn't explain.

#46 – War
Agasa did not like it when his two charges fought since he was usually the one who had to clean up afterward.

#47 – Water
"Which is it?" he asked her, and was a mixture of amused and resigned when she answered readily enough – neither "full" nor "empty" but - "Poisoned."

#48 – Welcome
"I'm home," he whispered into the silent house, then berated himself for expecting an answer.

#49 – Winter
She used like to winter because concentrating on the cold cleared her mind of less tolerable thoughts; but now she liked it because winter meant curling up on the sofa with a book and a blanket and a sense of security.

#50 – Wood
Haibara fed another armful of twigs to the fire, then turned to Conan and asked, "Now would you care to explain how you managed to get half-drowned and incredibly lost in the thirty minutes since I started looking for you?"

(Notes)

– The quote from 40 is a reference to Fruits Basket.

– 26 is a reference to the busjacking case, 27 is a reference to an earlier 1sentence ("Wings," I think), 28 and 29 can be considered connected, 39 may or may not be a reference to my multichapter-of-dubious-progress, and 45 follows from 32. Oh, and 47 owes its existence to some random online personality quiz.