Sorry for the long wait, I was a little busy.
Disclaimer: I still don't own Detective Conan.
"How is she? Is Haibara ok?" everyone was asking.
"I can't say for sure. It's already a miracle she didn't immediately die after falling from such a height. She has a concussion. The good thing is, she landed on her side so her head isn't wounded disastrously, but her right arm and leg bones are completely shattered. I'm afraid she's going to be disabled for the rest of her life. We've done the best we can. Now it's up to her to see if she can survive. To be frank, there's about a one in a thousand chance that she wakes up from her coma," the doctor said, his head bowed low.
"Haibara-san…" Mitsuhiko started.
"She…" Ayumi sobbed. The detective boys burst into tears. Conan looked at the doctor, eyes wide, trying to take in the dreadful information.
No… This can't be true… Just because of a silly mistake I made… no… NO! He bolted towards the room where Haibara was lying in her hospital bed, flung open the door, and made his way towards her. She looked peaceful, as if she was just taking a nap. Everybody else looked through the doorway, their faces showing grief as they watched him grasp her hands, bend down, and start sobbing.
3 weeks later…
"He's been sitting there for 4 hours already, and he's done that for 3 weeks straight. Don't you think we should persuade him to go now?" Ayumi asked.
"I agree. All we can do is hope for the best, sitting there all day won't make her wake up faster," Mitsuhiko said, "Come, let's go get him." The detective boys hurried over to Conan.
"Conan-kun?" Ayumi asked. "We should go now. It's getting late."
"Yah Conan. Let's go," Genta said. Conan sighed, and stood up.
"Let's go," he said reluctantly.
"Akemi… No! Don't kill her! Kill me instead!" Conan whirled around and ran back to Haibara. Her face was contorted in a painful expression.
"Haibara! Oi Haibara!" Conan yelled, a surge of hope rose inside him. Haibara's eyes slowly opened.
"Akemi!" she breathed, then let out a soft groan. The grogginess soon left her eyes and she looked around. Conan was standing beside her, a worried expression on his face. The other three crowded around her bed.
"Haibara-san!"
"Ai-chan! You're awake!" Ayumi almost screamed. Their faces were overcome with happiness. Joyful tears filled Conan's weary eyes.
"Wh-what happened?..." Haibara asked, looking around at her surroundings. "O ya I remember now…"
"The doctor said that you were going to die! But you lived!" Genta cried.
"Anyways, let's get the doctor to look at her first," Mitsuhiko said. They called the doctor over, and after he examined her he said,
"I can't believe it! It's truly a miracle! She survived so all those injuries, and she's only a child! She'll get better if she rests enough, but her arm and leg… I'm afraid those won't heal…"
Haibara lifted her arm gingerly, and let out a small yelp of pain.
"I'm sorry Haibara. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have been so careless." Conan said.
"The doctor said you'll be disabled for life, that's not true, right?"Ayumi asked solemnly.
Haibara smiled weakly.
"You owe me, Edogawa-kun," she said.
"I'll do anything to repay you," he said, a remorseful expression on his face. He wanted to punish himself, seeing that Haibara wouldn't even yell at him was a greater pain than it would be if she was angry at him. Haibara smiled.
"I'm a little tired. You guys should go back home now, it's getting dark," she said. The four turned to leave.
"Kudo-kun," she whispered, "come at midnight."
"Eh?" he asked, but she already went to sleep again. A mind full of questions, he followed the other three out of the hospital.
Later that night…
Soft moonlight shone in from the room's window pane, illuminating the floor. Haibara laid in bed, thinking about the hallucination she saw of Akemi. She had watched her being shot, and could do nothing…
Haibara's hospital room door slid open. Carrying his skateboard, Conan came in and sat down beside Haibara.
"Haibara… I'm sorry…It's all because of me…" Conan's eyes welled with tears.
"It's fine," Haibara smiled, raising her good hand to gingerly touch his cheek. His eyes widened.
"No it's not! You're disabled all because of me! Because I was an idiot… Such an idiot!"
"I have to admit it would've been logical to look before you tried to demonstrate, but the past can't be changed, can it?" Haibara smiled, "I brought you here because I wanted to show you something. Can you carry me to the floor, where the moonlight is?" she gestured to the small blocklike shape made by the moonlight shining in from outside. Conan, though confused, complied. He put his arms under her and lifted her out of her bed, then set her down on the floor. Haibara winced, but managed to get into a sitting position, then said "watch". She closed her eyes and held her left hand up. Conan saw that the moonlight shining on her gave her a faint white glow, but then realized it wasn't the moonlight. She was actually glowing herself! He watched in awe as the luminosity from her entire body came in waves, concentrating at her outstretched hand. A shimmering light appeared in it, and grew bigger and bigger until it became a swirling white orb. Conan was speechless as he watched the orb slowly circulate around her wounded right arm. After a minute or so, she wiggled her fingers and bent her arm a few times, then sighed.
"It healed? Wh-what is that?" Conan asked, amazed by what he saw.
"I actually don't know. I discovered this power when I was about eleven. I was still in the organization back then, and Gin used to shoot me for fun. Cruel, huh? Well, that time he was in a really bad mood so he went a little overboard. I was lying there in a pool of blood under the moonlight. I really thought I was going to die, until the orbs just appeared out of nowhere. They saved my life. I haven't told anyone about this, so you are the first one to see it. Miraculous, huh?" she said, examining her healed arm, then started on her leg. Once again the bright orbs appeared and swirled around her leg.
"Haibara?"
"What?"
"Um… I have a question." She turned to face him. "Are- are you human?" Haibara stared at him for a moment, then let out a small laugh. "Who knows? I don't." She got up, and turned to her bed and stumbled. Conan caught her in his arms.
"Are you ok?"
"I'm just tired, that's all." He laid her on the bed and tucked her in. Haibara gave him a weak smile, then closed her eyes.
"Oh yah! What was so important about the hard disk?" he asked, but she had already fallen asleep. Conan smiled at her. He slowly leaned in and kissed her cheek, then turned and left.
Thank goodness, Haibara…
From a dark corner, a concealed figure had been watching the entire scene. She smirked, and walked away into the darkness.
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