A/N: Thanks for the reviews! I was wondering where everyone went, maybe I lost reviews with the wait for the last few chapters but I did get more than I was expecting for the last chapter, so thanks! :3

Faded

Episode 12: There Is Only One Truth!

"Come on, Jimmy, wake up!" Rachel cried, shaking him gently. After the change, he hadn't woken up. She'd shaken him lightly but that hadn't even gotten a rise out of him.

"I'm sure he's fine, he just needs his rest, dear," Vivian said quietly, watching as Rachel gently lay his small form back down on the bed.

"Alright, just what the hell is going on here?"

Both girls jumped and turned to Harley. When he had finally come out of his shock, he was just a little bit confused. That was definitely Kudo who screamed, and yet, when he ran all the way to his room this brat was there! It couldn't possibly mean that...

Was Jimmy Kudo really little Conan?

If he wasn't, then why did Rachel just call the brat Jimmy?

Booker sighed. "Why don't we go backstairs, leave Jimmy to rest, and explain things to Mr. Heartwell." He had a feeling that this wasn't going to be easy. Rachel and Vivian both nodded, glancing back at his smaller form on the bed before walking downstairs.

Good, when Harley got downstairs he'd get his answers. That was all he was thinking about as he sat at the table beside Rachel, waiting for an explanation.

"Okay," Harley began, speaking up first. "First, weeks ago Kudo disappears, and not even his parents put him on the missing persons list. I thought that was strange, which is my reason for coming here. The second thing I thought was odd was that you two," he said pointing to his parents. "Don't seem worried at all, like most parents would be over a missing child. Strange, isn't it? And Rachel seems quite happy even though her boyfriend has disappeared."

"He's not my boyfriend!" she exclaimed, her cheeks going a darker shade of red, partly because of what Harley had said, mostly because she remembered their kisses upstairs. "Who told you that?"

"Your best friend and classmate, Serena Sebastian," Harley shrugged. "She says Kudo has been absent from school a lot the past few weeks and she seems to think you're hiding him."

Stupid Serena.... we're not going out! He doesn't even...remember me.

Her angry face turned into a frown after she thought that and she looked down, making Harley blink. He looked over at Booker, who sighed.

"If Jimmy had his memory, he could explain this better than myself. But, according to Rachel here," he nodded. "After he solved a case on the roller coaster at the Tropical Land amusement park, there were some suspicious men in black on it that he saw once again run into an alley."

"And of course, Kudo followed them," Harley continued. Booker nodded.

"RIght. We're not sure what he saw, but apparently they saw him eavesdropping, hit him over the head which caused the memory loss, and he was fed a poison of sorts. We couldn't find any traces of it in his body, though."

"So you just assumed."

"Well, its not like he went back ten years in age because of a magic spell," Booker rolled his eyes. "But yes, we just assumed. He stayed in the hospital for quite a few days, seeing if the doctors could do anything about his amnesia. After almost two weeks he was released from the hospital, and we've been hiding him here ever since."

"Because if the men in black find out he's still alive," Rachel spoke up, and Harley looked at her. "They'll come and finish the job."

So that's why they kept his identity a secret, thought Harley with a frown. They had to. For his safety and everyone else's.

"Hmm... so how did you guys all find out he was really Jimmy?" he asked. Rachel answered first.

"Well, I saw a report on the news saying that a young boy was found at Tropical Land at being treated at the hospital. I thought it might be Jimmy so I went there immediately. When I saw he was smaller I was surprised. But when I saw his bigger clothes from the amusement park and similarities in appearance and personality, once he woke up... I knew."

Harley nodded. She was close enough to Kudo, she would probably believe it before anyone else. "And you two?"

"Dr. Agasa, our neighbor and friend, told us that Rachel called him and that Jimmy was in the hospital. We were only told he had amnesia at first, so since we were already planning to go home for a while we made a side-trip to the hospital," Vivian explained. "We were quite surprised by the state of our only son, and it took a bit of convincing on Rachel's part before we finally believed the possibility of him shrinking."

"But apparently, his mind is still in tact," Booker said. "He still has the knowledge he learned through his seventeen years of life, even if he doesn't have the memories to go along with it."

"I see," Harley said with a frown. "So amnesia, and he's been shrunk..."

Now their secret was out, and it was up to Harley if he was going to go public with it or not. Rachel glanced at Jimmy's parents, biting down on her lower lip in worry as Harley thought about all this.

So they were surprised when Harley started laughing. Leaning back in his seat, he grinned. "That's a well thought story, you guys, but you don't honestly expect me to believe it, do you?"

"There is only one truth," a small voice said and everyone turned to look as Jimmy came into the room. He had woken a few moments ago and heard conversation downstairs. Of course he got curious and went to check it out. Vivian was about to walk over when Rachel beat her to it, gently picking him up.

"Jimmy, you should sleep," she frowned, checking his fever. It had gone down quite low since the transformation.

"Can't," he mumbled, blushing slightly as Rachel held him. He had had dreams of their kisses, and possibly them leading to something more, no dream an ordinary little boy should have at that age. He nearly got a nosebleed when he was feeling her chest against his small form as she picked him up.

His head turned and he looked over at Harley, who was watching him with narrowed eyes.

"There is only one truth, and it will always prevail," he said. Letting out that arrogant smirk of his, he continued. "I am Jimmy Kudo, whether I remember it or not."

TBC

A/N: The fourteenth Detective Conan movie comes out on Saturday! *fangirl squeal* and I was wondering if anyone knows when it will be subbed in English? How long do those things take to happen? I know the Inuyasha Kanketsu-Hen (Final Act) episodes were subbed pretty quickly but maybe its different from movies. Also, does anyone know if episodes 294-295 are going to be subbed in english or if they are already? I really want to see them subbed. I watched it RAW but I had no idea what the hell they were saying aside from the little I know of japanese.