[FFML] [Detective Conan][dark] Killing You With A Lie

[The Eternal Lost Lurker]

"Goddammit, Conan-kun! I want the truth!" Mouri Ran half-screamed,
half-sobbed, wiping tears from her eyes with her fingers. The small boy
standing just over an arm's length away shuffled his feet, bowing his head
and looking distinctly uncomfortable.

"I've seen and heard so many things," Ran continued, sniffling. "Pictures,
things that could've been coincidence but I know just aren't, strange words
that don't make sense but sound really important, and the way you
act...you're not a normal kid, not even close to normal, and the only thing
that makes sense..." She trailed off. "Conan-kun, just tell me," she
continued hoarsely, voice barely above a whisper. "Are...are you...?"

The boy stood indecisively for a long moment. This was it. He could tell
her. He could deny it. He could evade the question. He could pray for a
miracle.

Or he could kill her with a lie that was almost a truth.

*Ran...I'm sorry...this is the last time I'll hurt you, I swear.*

Conan's face was obscured by his bangs. The dim light from the window behind
him somehow caught the lenses of his glasses, making them the brightest
thing in the room, drawing Ran into their reflected glare like a moth to a
flame.

Fitting, as his next words would burn her to a cinder.

"Ran-neechan...Shinichi-niichan's dead."

Ran's eyes widened. "Wh...what?"

"He's been dead for a long time. They killed him months ago."

"No...that's not...! Conan-kun, I've talked to hi--I've SEEN him...!"

Conan shook his head, and removed his bowtie from his pocket. He turned the
back of it to show it to her; she could see the dials and the microphone
there. "Nobody wanted you to know until his papa caught the guys who did it,
because they were afraid you'd go out looking for revenge. So Hakase gave me
this, an' told me to call you sometimes with his voice." He pocketed the
small device. "And every time you've seen him, it wasn't really him. It was
Kaitou Kid or Heiji-niichan in disguise."

"Uso..."

"We did it to keep you safe, Ran-neechan," Conan continued. "I'm sorry, I
know how much it hurts. I know how angry you are, an' I'm gonna go back home
now because my work here's done. I'm gonna miss you, but I think...I think
right now, the last person you wanna see is me." He shoved his hands in his
pockets and turned away from her, keeping his head low to hide the tears.
"Don't hate everybody, Ran-neechan. We were just doin' what Shinichi-niichan
wanted. We were keepin' you safe because he loved you."

Ran gave a choked, wavering quail of a sob and collapsed to her knees; her
body was soon wracked with heaving, racking cries of anguish.

Less than two blocks from the Mouri Detective Agency, the home he would
never see again, Kudou Shinichi dropped to the sidewalk and cried along with
her.



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