Disclaimer: Detective Conan is not mine. The series belongs to its creator, Gosho Aoyama, and I'm just borrowing the characters and scenery to create these short tales.
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Drabble 8: The Disgusting Pepper
Premise: It's a nice day to cook.
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She was a bit clinical when she cooked.
Give her a cookbook and point to a recipe and Ai could prepare it...but she followed the instructions a bit too carefully in his opinion. Sure, in her experiments she had to be cautious with the amount that she put in...but cooking wasn't supposed to be as exact as science.
One day, to prove his point, he slipped a hot pepper into the steaming soup. It was ready to serve, so Ai had left it out in the open as she worked on the rice.
Needless to say, she hadn't caught the change until all three of them sat down to eat.
"Ai-kun, this soup a bit different today." said the Professor.
Curious, the girl took a sip from her own soup bowl. Then she stood up and walked over to the steaming pot of soup. Without a second thought, she calmly fished out the offending object and threw it into the trash.
She returned to her seat and sat back down...acting as if she had been there the entire time.
He watched her completely finish her soup. Then, to their shock, she picked up Agasa's bowl and proceeded to finish that one too. Confused, he picked up his own bowl and took a sip. He nearly gagged, the tinge of spiciness didn't mix at all with the natural sweetness of this soup. And she finished two bowls of the stuff?
Apparently, she knew what he was trying to say because the dishes that she prepared afterwards had far more life to them. However, whenever he approached the kitchen, he could feel her eyes tracking his every movement.
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A/N: I prefer stories...but...there's a reason for these drabbles. If you think that a character wouldn't do that, please let me know. I'm trying to get a feel for the characters so that my eventual stories would be more believable.