Disclaimer: Aoyama Gosho owns everything here belonging to Detective Conan/Case Closed. Stephenie Meyer owns everything here belonging to the Twilight saga. I own the plot.

--*Chapter 4*--

After Shinichi had hunted, he ran back to Agasa's house. "So, mind telling us what's going on now?" Haibara asked him, her normal unfeeling expression back.

"I'm not exactly sure myself. We got a case to investigate a family while in Forks. I was suspicious of them, so I went back to spy on them that night. They weren't even remotely tired. I got caught and spent the night there. I was reading Holmes, and got a paper cut. All I remember is someone moving incredibly fast, a burn in my neck, and fire throughout my body for three days. At some point, I grew into my old body. They tell me that I'm a vampire now."

"Unlikely; vampires aren't real. Even if they were, what about your eyes, at the very least? Should they not be red?"

In response, Shinichi slipped out his contact lenses, and the two watching gasped. "Well, if I could fool you two, I guess this strategy will work. What color are they?"

"Blood-red. I don't understand how the legends could possibly be true."

"Half of them aren't. I don't sleep at all anymore, I do not burn in sunlight, and not all of us drink human blood. Where did you think I would have gone so quickly?"

"Oh. Why don't we go downstairs? I am certainly eager to find out how you grew."

Shinichi nodded and let her lead him downstairs. Once there, she asked if she could take a blood sample. "It wouldn't kill me, but the needle won't even pierce my skin. Even if it did, you wouldn't get anything. My new body absorbed all my human blood."

"That would explain something. The APTX-4869 runs in the bloodstream, so it would be eliminated if there were no blood to run in."

"I think that the venom that changed me played a part in it somehow."

"So I could use your venom in an antidote…"

He was surprised to find that she wasn't joking. His gift was very sensitive. "No, I don't think you could," he said. "Put in too much venom and you will likely become a vampire; not enough and it won't cure you. We can't test it without recreating the Apotoxin, and we can't test it on you and run the risk of you becoming a vampire or possibly dying."

"I see the problem. Mind if I study you for a while anyway?"

"I guess not."

For the next three hours, Shinichi patiently answered questions and presented his talents and skills to Ai. At half past five, the doorbell rang. He put his contact lenses back in and reapplied some makeup, and walked upstairs. On the couch was Ran, wearing the face that screamed "I missed you", even clearer to him now. She ran up to him and hugged him, her delicious scent washing over him. It was only love and determination that kept him from killing her right then. "It's all right, Ran. I will never leave you for so long again."

"I hope you don't," she said, face still buried in his shirt.