Phantom Detective: Haunted House

Shinichi floated in the attic of his house. It was nice to be able to get some peace and quiet for once, but if he were being totally honest with himself that wasn't the real reason he was here.

He was haunting the house.

Truth be told he wasn't sure when it had started. Sometime after he had somehow absorbed Danny's power. He couldn't pinpoint when the desire had started, only when he had acted on it. It had seemed so natural at the time it wasn't until much later that he had realized how out of character it had been.

Danny didn't have this problem. It had taken weeks to build up the courage to ask only to have his worst fears confirmed. He didn't have anyone he could talk to about this, no one to explain why he had this craving.

He wanted to be ghostly.

Kind of pathetic said out loud, but that was the root of the problem. He hadn't become malevolent or a second Plasmius (Thank GOD) but after the party he had known.

When he had pranked both his teacher and the girls at the party he hadn't thought much about it. The teacher had taken way too much joy in making her students (not just him) uncomfortable and Ran had asked him to scare the other girls. But the thief was different. When he had heard the footsteps from upstairs, he had only wanted to investigate. When he had found the thief he decided to scare him away from the girls. Just a minor fright.

It wasn't a minor fright. Shinichi had done all he could to instill mortal terror in the man and worse…he had enjoyed every second of it. Even now if he had wanted peace and quiet there were several options available to him, a library, a backroom at Agasa's. But all he wanted was to float in the attic of an abandoned house.

What's happening to me?

Cobwebs spanned the attic ceiling and though he easily could have removed them, he didn't. He felt an odd kinship with the spiders. At the moment they were both creatures of nightmares.

His mind unbiddenly turned to the day of the attempted kidnapping, the day Ran had found out everything. Vlad, unknowing of his new state, had sent three vultures to kidnap him. He had been able to evade capture, but he was new to his powers and barely had any control. What little control he had only seemed to manifest itself in his transformed state, so that had been the state he was in when he had inadvertently run into Ran on her way home from the hospital. The look in her eyes, the recognition mixed with fear was more painful than the worst apotoxin transformation. Almost as bad was the shock and betrayal when he had lost control and shifted back to Conan in her arms.

Shinichi wasn't sure what had happened. When he woke up Danny had been there and Ran had apparently forgiven him, though she was still a little scared around him.

"Maybe she had a good reason," Shinichi muttered.

S$$S

AN: And again the drama is back. Sorry. Next chappy is better

Terra89: I don't know about Danny, I haven't actively seen him try to haunt anything since the Halloween episode, where we learned he's got no haunting talent.

LazyShamanist: #huggles plushie# looking forward to it

Candidus-lupus-full Moon: :D

The-world-needs-peace: He's in trouble, that's for sure. And yes, Takagi has magic, no one knows why but he does. (More on that later)

Firefly4000: S'weird, it blanks them when I try to use them. #sics dustbunnies of you#

Taipan: TIM may be drawing to a close, but the tales of the Phantom Detective is just beginning! I don't really have something planned for the toys, but you never know. (I didn't have anything planned for Kid or Takagi in TIM and look how that turned out)