The hospital room was as devoid of beauty as a ray of hope. The walls are simply pale blue, not peeling or dirty, just the right tone. The room as an undertone of bleach and the floor is simply grey. At the far end were windows in grey metal frames that can be opened only at the top. At the door are dispensers for rubber gloves, hand sanitizer and soap. In the bed lies everyone's future unless they are lucky enough to pass in their home. This time, it would be Shinichi Kudo.
Ai yawned as she stopped typing on her laptop; she was saving some data about the antidote she has been working with precision ever since Shinichi was in the comatose state.
So far so good, the antidote she was able to turn them back to their original body as long as they want if and only if they keep drinking it, twice per day- each have a 12 hour effect.
Since that was possible now, she focused more on the side effects that she was not sure about and might fail to tackle if she remained restless.
Moments later, she found herself staring at the laptop screen, her mind was in someplace.
Even if the antidote works that way, she still needs to find the perfect antidote to turn their body back to normal, this time, permanently.
Ai let out a tiring sigh as she leaned back on the couch then her eyes landed on Shinichi's direction. She placed her laptop on the soft couch and goes to Shinichi's bed; she sat at the edge of it.
Moments later, she found herself caressing Shinichi's hair. Ai is in her original body, ever since last month- she's been drinking the antidote so she can know if it has side effects. Other than painful transformation, there was nothing new.
The staff of the hospital thought that she was Shinichi's sibling as well, just like Ai- her child version.
Yukiko, Shinichi's mother introduced her as Shinichi's twin sister even though they had nothing similar about but since Shiho and Ai shared the same look- they took the bait.
In that way, they will never bother to ask why all of a sudden, a teenager was taking care of Shinichi.
"Your hair is long now..." She gently whispered, she kept caressing his hair sideward.
If Shinichi is in his normal condition, she might never had the audacity to do what she was doing right now to him, being this close to Shinichi and caressing his hair and his face gave her happiness for some reason.
She doubted that she will still do this when he wakes up. Shiho sighed as her hand retreated on Shinichi's cheek and go to the restroom; she splashed some cold water in her face. She stared at her reflection in the mirror.
Her hair got longer too, it's finally touching her back, she put it in a ponytail and went back to Shinichi's room.
"Holy cra--"
"Easy there..." A tanned skin guy said in laughing tone, Shiho stared at him for a second- recovering from the shock and bewilderment, she glared at him for a moment.
"Hattori." Shiho said, she wanted to roll eyes on him but she stopped herself. "Visiting in this kind of hour?" She said and sarcasm was obvious on her tone.
"Why can't I?" The amusing tone is still there, Heiji Hattori- a very close friend of Shinichi Kudo.
"First, it's 4:00 am in the morning and I don't think that's the visiting hour here." Sarcasm but then she smiled a bit; Shiho knew that with Shinichi's parents' connection- she, Heiji and Professor Agasa are the only people who can visit Shinichi anytime.
Well that's because Heiji and Professor did not visit Shinichi that much since both of them are busy in Japan.
"Aww... How I miss your sarcasm little girl." He then smirked.
Shiho shook her head a bit, amused by the person standing in front of her.
"How many times do I need to tell you that, you should rest after your flight?" The sarcasm has been replaced by gentleness in her voice.
This is not the first time Heiji visited Shinichi, as much as possible- Heiji will visit him once a month, that's the only thing he can do for his friend.
In that moment, Heiji's smirk has been replaced by a genuine smile as well.
"What? I only have 2 days here in America so; I want to spend my days here with this- uhm… With this, sleep maniac" And just like always, people around her were trying to joke around so they can light up the mood but then- the next will always be the deafening silence and couple of stares on Shinichi plus the loneliness in their eyes.
Shiho glanced her eyes away from Heiji, she knew what she just thought will happen.
She walked towards the couch, sighing.
"Do you need alone time with him?" Shiho said.
"You're joking right?" Heiji faced her, with an eyebrow up.
"Why would I?" She arched her eyebrow.
Heiji thought that she was not serious and it was sarcasm by her but then, Shiho meant what she just said.
"I'll leave the both of you alone."
And before Heiji can protest, she's gone.
"Where the hell she was going in this place and in this kind of hour?" He shook his head.
"Kudo…" He grinned but it slowly faded away "The hell man, it's the fifth time I've been here and you're still sleeping." Heiji added in joking tone. "It's not easy to travel from Japan to here, I'm not rich."
Again, he joked- money was not a problem.
Moments later, he's sitting beside Shinichi's bed on a chair.
"How long are you planning on keep sleeping?" Heiji sighed "There are many people waiting for you to wake up."
Heiji stop for a second.
"Ran is waiting for you, she's always been, now- if I were you, I won't make her wait more, Kudo. We all know that you love each other." He smiled at that, everyone knows that Shinichi and Ran have feelings for each other, it's just that- they only need was to confess already.
While remembering Ran and other stuff, the smile on Heiji's face disappeared again.
"And... Someone is waiting for you too, you know her very much- she replaced my position in your life, she's been your partner and now- she's your private nurse." He chuckled a bit.
"How can you do this? Make us wait for so long huh? Tss… Oh well, I think this is better than--" he gulped "You, not waking up anymore- permanently."
Heiji then looked up as he felt some water starts to show in his eyes.
"Darn it, you need to pay me back for making my eyes teary." He joked again.
As Heiji was still looking up, wiping some tears that escaped from his eyes- he didn't notice Shinichi's finger move a little bit.
XOXO
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-Siehan