The lab is a mess. In the back of my mind I know I should probably clean it up, heavens knows Hagase has enough volatile chemicals laying around, but somehow I just can't seem to be able to move.

There's always a nice safe wall between being a weapons designer and a murderer. No one blames the gun manufacturers for what their creations do. Yes I knew what my poisons were being used for, how could I not? Especially taking into account my employers.

But these victims had no names or faces to me. The only one who was ever pointed out to me was Kudo Shinichi, and that was only on the grounds that he might have survived.

He may have survived my poison with minimal side effects (sometimes I wonder if he realizes just how lucky he was that night). He didn't have quite so much luck when the ghosts came to town.

I take it back, actually, his luck was surprisingly similar. While the concepts of black and white are rarely valid, life and death were never supposed to have a gray area. Kudo seems to have found it nicely though.

Not alive but not dead either. Even when he's in his 'living' state he should be dead. Certainly his body temperature and pulse rate are incapable of supporting life. Truly I don't know what to make of it. Still he had died, at least partially, and (to my guilty relief) it was neither my fault nor even the fault of my former employers. Kudo adjusted, at times even seemed happy about his situation and life went on.

Still one thing bugged me. A royally confused Danny Fenton shaking his head and saying that it was impossible for Conan to have been changed by the amount of energy he put out by merely transforming.

Personally I thought a half-ghost using the word impossible was something of a pot/kettle scenario.

Agasa of course starting branching into paranormal sciences, partially to keep up with influx of supernatural entities, and partially because the Fenton's were sending him new toys. He confirmed Danny's statement. The amount of power necessary to turn a normal human into a halfa would be able to power the entire Beika area.

I still didn't think to much about it, not till my mice escaped.

It was my latest trial run with recreating APTX 4869. The chemical had many similar properties to the drug, though it didn't manifest the "chibi" effect. The cage with the mice was kept near one of the Fenton 'care packages'. I wasn't concerned, there had been enough studies to show that exposure to ectoplasm had no effect on humans unless it was in as previously mentioned massive quantities or you had Kudo's luck.

The next day half my mice were gone.

It was during my testing on the remaining ones that I discovered their bodies temperatures and pulse rate had decreased dramatically. One managed to escaped by turning invisible, making it only too clear that they had developed the 'Halfa' condition. It also made it evident how.

Apotoxin doesn't stay in the victim's system much longer than a few days. However, despite my initial report to my former employers it does leave certain chemical traces that stay in the system significantly longer, perhaps indefinitely.

It was these chemical traces that trapped the ectoplasm energy in the victims systems, and magnified it, allowing the 'Halfa' condition to occur with relatively little initial energy.

It was the poison that killed him after all. My Poison.

I killed Kudo Shinchi.

LazyTantei: My laptop dies in the begining of October. I only just got it back

YumeTakato: Hope this one was good to, though I'm not very happy with it

FireHedgeHog: Having no actual bearing on the main story is one of the virtues of omake, you can go completely nuts :D

RedHerring1412: You might want to check either my profile or the DP section in February. I'm just saying... #whistles innocently#

candidus-lupus-full Moon: The HP crossover is offcially on the list plot waise and will be posted as soon as it comes up chronologically.

EelvenGirl: Amen to that sister. I've been no so subtly encouraging more of it, haven't gotten much of a response though...