Recap: Atsushi moved closer and hugged her for comfort, her tears dampened his shirt but he couldn't care less. He wanted to leave, now that he's found one more important reason.

Dawn. The crack of dawn woke Atsushi. Elena wrapped up around his arms sleeping peacefully against his chest; she was like sunshine to him. Warm and calming. Elena stirred in his arms, he watched as she mumbled something in her sleep. He gently brushed her blonde strand off her angelic face. Shuffling sounds were heard outside of their tent. This alerted Atsushi, he sat up carefully trying not to wake Elena but was on guard anticipating the worst case scenario. He stared at the zip up door to their tent and kept as quite as possible. Low mumbles were heard, but he couldn't quite make out what was being said. He kept curiosity to himself and remained still. The zip moved by itself unzipping the door allowing more sunlight into their tent. Atsushi panicked realizing that he was defenseless, he had no weapons on him at all.

"Elena?" a girl's voice traveled through the doorway. An elementary girl popped her head around into the tent. Atsushi still frozen at his state, got too caught up with his emotions. The girl looked at him, he looked back. Both confused and were unable to say a word.

"Is she…?" Haibara began with a worried look

"She's fine, she's just sleeping," Atsushi replied. Haibara looked at him for a moment then spoke again.

"Well, can you wake her up? I think… my friend is ill" Haibara said worriedly

"I…" He looked down at the sleeping angel "I can take a look at him if you don't mind," Atsushi volunteered

"Um, okay" Haibara accepted the help and gesture him out of the tent. He laid Elena down gently on the floor and followed Haibara out of the tent. Shinichi lay sideways by camp fire, breathing heavily, hands clutching tightly to the sleeping bag while shivering. Atsushi kneeled by Shinichi to examine him, he switched on the torch that was sitting in his coat pocket. He opened Shinichi's left eye and shone a light into his eyes and did the same with his right eye.

"He's fine, he's got a slight fever but it's just a normal cold, as long as he keeps warm, drink plenty of water and take a paracetamol every 4 hours he should be fine in a few days," Atsushi informed

"A few days?" Haibara echoed "We can't stay that long..."

"Well the best we can do for him now is to put him inside a tent and keep him warm," Atsushi told Haibara. They carried Shinichi inside the tent Haibara and Elena were sharing. Atsushi excused himself outside while Haibara stayed by his side, she replace a cool towel every hour or so on Shinichi's forehead to cool his fever. Wasn't long till Elena woke up, she volunteered to go to buy some thick clothing so Shinichi can keep warm while Atsushi stayed behind.

Hours passed when Haibara heard shuffling outside. Expecting Elena to be back, she unzipped the tent door but no one was there. A thick coat was left behind in front of the door with a card placed on top of it. Haibara took the coat and wrapped it round Shinichi before opening the envelope to the card.

We have the woman, give us the elixir of change

Friday 2200 CSP

Shit. How could this have happened? Haibara thought as she rushed to get help, but help was nowhere to be found. Atsushi was gone. Shinichi is still ill and need to stay rested, Elena has been kidnapped and now she needs to find some elixir of change and crack the code in time, while her dad is in danger?

This is Great. Just Great.

Well good thing Shinichi sort of predicted this to happen. Haibara thought as she dug out a pair UV goggles from the back seat of the car. Now all I have to do is 'follow the yellow brick road'. Shinichi's voice echo in the back of her head.

I know it's a short chapter, but i just didn't want to add onto it, it just feels weird. but don't worry the next chapter will be longer. Oooh annnd, please review. coz i've been getting very few reviews lately and i just don't know if anyone's reading this anymore.