(A/N) Yes, well. It was finals and I hate studying so I was bored and I had this neat sentence which wouldn't fit into anything longer…so I snagged another set.

Personally I'm surprised I've written this much for a single pairing, and I'm kinda expecting inspiration to dry up in the middle of this latest endeavor. But hey, it may have the opposite effect and prompt me to work on "Untitled."

Oh, that reminds me: "Untitled" now has a title, but no one gets to know what it is until I write more for it. After all, that may never happen - and what good is a label without anything underneath?

Fandom: Detective Conan/Case Closed
Pairing: Kudo Shinichi/Edogawa Conan x Miyano Shiho/Haibara Ai (/Sherry)
Theme Set: Gamma
Rating: K+
Dedication: I'm too lazy to write out a list. If you don't know whether you'd belong on it or not, my money's on the latter.

Disclaimer: Go pick on someone who has money.

File 5

#01 – Walking
It was a simple thing, the daily trip to pipsqueak school, but depending on their moods it could be short, fast, excrutiating, pleasant, or just…normal.

#02 – Waltz
She had to learn because it was required for undercover-ops, he had to learn because it was required of anyone with money, and apparently neither of them had learned well enough to avoid winding up in a tangled heap on the floor with the music playing loudly in their ears as they laughed.

#03 – Wishes
"I wish she'd poke me and smirk after I finish saying this."

#04 – Wonder
They spent a surprising amount of time thinking about each other - "I wonder when he's going to grow up and lose the gaudy red bowtie;" "She'd almost be tolerable if she wasn't making fun of me every other second."

#05 – Worry
"I wonder what he's going to do when I finish this antidote;" "She'd better not have gotten shot again."

#06 – Whimsy
They went for a walk in the park one day, to enjoy the sunshine and buy a last ice cream cone.

#07 – Waste/Wasteland
Conan yawned as the guide extolled the virtues of the World's Finest Garbage Dump™, while Haibara looked out over WasteLand and very carefully thought about nothing.

#08 – Whiskey and rum
Conan wondered aloud, within Ai's earshot, how many agents there were in the B.O.; and was answered with a noise that might have been a name, a request for his next trip to the drugstore, or an unconscious response to the combination of mixed drinks, his obnoxiously loud voice, and her hangover.

#09 – War
"Everything's fair, Kudo," she told him with empty eyes; he wrinkled his nose at the smell of bitter almonds and didn't answer.

#10 – Weddings
They weren't there when Ran got married, or when Sonoko got married, or when Mitsuhiko got married, or when Ayumi got married, or when Genta got married; and they didn't even show up for Agasa's wedding – how could they, when they hadn't been there for their own?

#11 – Birthday
When she woke up there were two birthday cards on her desk: the Queen of Spades, and the King of Hearts.

#12 – Blessing
Once, when he was sleeping, she snuck in grinning like an amateur thief to sprinkle water on his head and stick an ofuda to his face – of course, the next morning Kudo's foot hit something as they passed the park on the way to school.

#13 – Bias
"Déformation professionnelle," she taunted him under her breath as she looked out at the lights of the city; he ignored her in favor of "100…1…2 – yellow gum with fairly deep wavy-print on that one - 3…"

#14 – Burning
His lungs were on fire and for once it was not a drug or an antidote but literal fire because the building was burning and where was Ai when he needed her to explain why he was hallucinating – was this a side effect? – but it couldn't be a hallucination because there she was over by the extin-

#15 – Breathing
She lifted an eyebrow at him from the too-big beach chair and said, "Because if sharks don't keep moving they'll die, obviously."

#16 – Breaking
"…and entering?" asked Conan incredulously, staring at the evidence they'd found; Ai looked around the room they'd entered…surreptitiously, and didn't reply.

#17 – Belief
As long as the Black Organization thought he was keeping an eye on her for them…

#18 – Balloon
"They wouldn't? Too chil-" "-No: they don't come in black."

#19 – Balcony
She looked down at him with a raised brow, just daring him to try, so he did: "But soft!"

#20 – Bane
He was the only one not named for an alcoholic drink; Sherry and Vermouth had insisted.

#21 – Quiet
There were pleasant silences and tense silences and overwhelmed silences and all sorts of silences in between, but right now it was just…kinda…quiet.

#22 – Quirks
She liked to sing when she thought no one was around, he found, but he lost the right to tease her after she caught him sketching a Sherlock Holmes scene in charcoal.

#23 – Question
"How long?"

#24 – Quarrel
They sat with their backs to each other, reading copies of the same book they'd bought separately – "False tears are capable of hurting other people; false smiles are capable of hurting one's self."

#25 – Quitting
"I'm giving up," he told her quietly one day, and she nodded but didn't look up - and didn't look up when he went out the next day to follow a lead.

(Closing A/N) Many of these are references to something else. If you pick up on all of them, more power to you. If you're not sure about one or a few, feel free to ask. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm certainly not going to sit here and type up a cheatsheet. Good luck.