She had gotten up in the middle of the night having the desperate urge of having to go to the bathroom.
And being capable of going herself and not having a catheter was a blessing in its own. Having one of those was a torture of its own kind, and it was finally over. She was able to use the bathroom by herself and put on her own socks without anyone's help.
She did not want to know how she was cared for when she was in her coma. Even though she knew everything that they would have done, it was far too embarrassing to think about. But she was raised to have the decency to thank people that help her. And she appreciated every skill one of them.
"Neechan"
"Neechan"
"Neechan"
Shinichi looked to her door able to hear the children gunning for her. They sounded happy and excited that they were coming to visit her.
"Bastard" Shinichi said.
She instantly knew that this was Hattori at work. He was using children against her to get her to help him with the case. He knew that she could not say "No" to pleading children and this was one of her many Kryptonite.
One hour later.
Two of the kids were passed out of her bed sleeping and hugging onto her (childhood) teddy bear. She hated anyone touching her teddy bear because it was one of her most beloved possessions that she had owned.
She grudgingly gets out of her bed to help with the case. She moved carefully not to wake either of the kids. The other had been taken away for blood tests and other tests that had to be run. The little boy had taken a tantrum because of this. He did not leave until he was given a hug and a kiss on the cheek. The kid had a crush on her, and it was cute and all. But he needed to find someone his own age.
There was a case that needed to solve. And this was the last thing that she wanted to do but was something that she needed to do.
Sigh
She grabbed the walking-stick, pushed into her armpit. This was a reminder that she needed to go in a shower again. She had stopped going in baths after a certain incident that she did not want to think about.
She avoided anyone that tried to assist her as she began to leave the room and started to walk down the hallway and down several flights of stairs. She had needed to assess to crime scene before she was told anything.
The case was a homicide.
At first it had thought to have been a suicide or an accident that was until Hattori was able to argue otherwise that it was not. Although there was only a short amount of time until the case had to be closed other someone would get away with murder.
It had thought to have a suicide because of the person had been grieving the loss of their only child. Shinichi had known this child and finding out that he had died had hit her hard and the death was rather unexpected. Even though the kid was already dying when she knew him and she knew that he would die in hospital because he had been diagnosed with a stage four cancer. A type of cancer that was incurable and as a result was only a matter of when they would die rather than how.
The victim was the mother and the wife of the husband that bought the wrong costume for Halloween.
Meanwhile, Kuroba Kaito was doing his best to not think of Kudo Shinichi in a certain way, while he was trying to plan his heist from 'prison' of all places. He was failing as magician not able to simple trick. He was failing as a thief because he had not even realised that the detective had stolen his heart. That was someone was able to steal for him, and this was something that he was not able to get back. He knew that he was a bit attracted to her before but he pushed that aside because of the hatred he had for her. But he no longer hated her and he was actually starting to like her as a person.
And he was far too terrified to go and see her because there were many ways and people that she could have him taken care of. Or rather there were people that were lining up to do the dirty work on her behalf. She had more people to back her than he had expected and her fan base was growing. Aoko was now friends with her and mortal enemies with him.
He was also shitting himself because he knew that she knew that he was KID.
"The Irony" he said to himself.
A thief falling for a detective of all things, it was too hilarious that it hurt. This either sounded the making of a romantic story or that of a TV sitcom.
He liked her hair. It was really shiny and smelled nice.
He was doing all this while several of mean boys were super glued to the toilet seats or somewhere we dare not speak of.
And the rest of the world sighed as there was yet another alien invasion going on.