Tenth Deduction [Accidental Voice/Action for Housemates]

[modernholmes]

[Conan tosses and turns restlessly in his sleep, obviously struggling against a bad dream. All of a sudden he bolts straight up with a half-strangled scream and falls out of bed.  He doesn't even notice his hand knocking his communicator onto the floor.]

RAN!

[He looks around frantically for a moment, then slumps back to the ground.]

Just a dream, is it?  How embarrassing.

[He knew what had brought it on, of course. So many people had been attacked recently.  Some of them close friends.  And... he had been completely useless when Hattori had been attacked.  With this child's body he had been helpless to do anything more than watch over Kazuha and Ran.

He knew better.  Everyone was fine.  But all the same he found that he couldn't resist the urge to check on everyone.  He hastily stands up and begins to silently make his way toward Ran's room.]

[ooc:If you're interested, this was what he just dreamed.]

Comments

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

No, but she takes care of me.

[kongeriget]

That can be the same thing.

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

But it isn't.

[kongeriget]

I mean, there's a kinda family that ain't blood!

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

I've been living with Uncle and Ran-neechan for a long time. But my family is in America.

[kongeriget]

Real uncle? Why did yer parents go?

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

No, they aren't related to me. The Professor asked them to take care of me because my parents can't.

[kongeriget]

…Why not?

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Because they're in America.

[A kid wouldn't care about anything more than that, so he'd never bothered to create any more of a cover story.]

[kongeriget]

They just left ya to go be tourists?

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

I don't mind.

[kongeriget]

Ya should!

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Why?

[His real parents had done the same thing.]

[kongeriget]

Because it's awful!

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

It isn't that unusual.

[kongeriget]

I don't care! Family's supposed to stick together.

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Sometimes that isn't possible.

[kongeriget]

Only if they're dead!