Sixteenth Case

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

[ this is probably about as predatory as you will ever see Kazuha look.

But when it involves certain teenage boy detectives who - for once - aren't her childhood friend, it's probably understandable.

Never mind the fact that she's soaked, sacrifices must be made. ]

Kudo Shinichi. I don't know how long you've been hiding out here, but I'm gonna find you.

[ LIGHTNING CRACKLE ]

And then we're going to have a nice, long talk.

Comments

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

... I guess compared to what you've known, it would be.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine that kind of stuff being "normal", but... there I was, feeling like it was.

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

...

Was it bad?

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... *doesn't... really have an answer for that*

Couldn't be bad with you there, stupid...

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

Crow-kun...

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Yeah?

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

I was happy... being with you like that, I mean. Even if that wasn't really your world, it was still you.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... Yeah. I was happy we could be like that too. It was... something else, huh?

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it... [ and her eyes are softening ] it really was.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

...

Hey, Kazuha?

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

Hm?

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Is there anything that's... stopping us?

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

... Stopping us from what?

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Being more like them. I mean, if we both were happier like that... *... really confused about everything*

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

Like... you mean dating?

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... Yeah, I guess so. If that's what we're not already doing...?

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

It's not official, I guess. But there's also the fact that we might've been happier because our lives were different... so we weren't... actually them. They didn't go through what we did. And we're not from the same place, like they are.

So if you're asking what's stopping us, it's probably that.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

...

*and after giving this some thought, he is stepping forward* Fuck them!

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

E-eh??

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seriously! They come waltzing in, after we've got things great, and then showing us how we can't be "as happy"? Forget them! We can be as happy as them, and then we can be ten times happier! So what if they were different? We're different from them, that just means we've got the potential to be happier too - they just had a head start is all!

Besides, from the same place? S'getting to the point where we're both from here, isn't it? I think that counts a little bit, right?!

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

... [ honestly speechless at first-- and opening her mouth, then shutting it, and then, very quietly, starting to laugh ]

I-I think it counts more that we're from different places and got this far despite that!

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... Yeah! *nodnod, and starting to laugh not that she's getting him started* Damn right it does! They had it easy compared to us! We're gonna kick their asses!

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

[ which isn't helping her with stopping ] There you go, we were stopping ourselves.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Which just means we have to start ourselves now instead.

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

Start... how?