Title: Codependence in an Ashtray
Author: RanMouri82
Word Count: 255
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Detective Conan's owned by Aoyama Gosho, but I just call him A-dawg.
Characters: Ran and Kogorou
Notes: The longest distance to a beer runs through an angry daughter.
Codependence in an Ashtray
"Hey, Ran . . . hand me a beer, would ya?" moaned the 'sleeping detective' Mouri Kogorou, from his sprawled position in the office chair. He kicked several empties off his desk with his stocking feet to clear space for the liquid refreshment he anticipated almost as much as the upcoming Okino Yoko special.
But Ran, who began to glow an odd shade of red under his blurry gaze, spat, "Are you even listening, Dad? I'm saying that's why mom left! Don't you care?"
"Eh, who cares about that woman, anyway?" he muttered, scratching the fresh stubble on his chin. Craning an arm across the desk without tearing his gaze from the TV screen, he fumbled for his pack of cigarettes and contorted to slip a cigarette in his mouth before lighting it. "So you saw her with some weird vet at a Dog Café. That woman can do whatever the hell she wants," he added, with a subtly angered snort. "You gonna get me my beer, or what?"
"Grrrr . . . go get it yourself!" snapped the teen, who turned on her heel and stormed out the door, slamming it so hard that she knocked Kogorou's prized ashtray to the floor.
For a full minute, Kogorou stared from the door to the ashen heap on the hopelessly stained carpet, and then back at the door. The overflowing trash can that parked by his backside seemed to whine in despair of being emptied. And as the door creaked on its strained hinges, Kogorou blinked in drunken confusion.
"But it's so . . . far . . . ."