Case Closed: You Didn't Say How Far!
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prose_alchemistTitle: You Didn’t Say How Far!
Author:jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Jimmy (Conan), Rachel, and the Junior Detective League.
Setting: General.
Summary: Some games are easier to escape than others… or maybe not.
Disclaimer: “Detective Conan/Case Closed” belongs to Gosho Aoyama.
Notes: Written for the prompt “Hide And Seek” atfan_flashworks.
“Seven… eight… nine… eleven…”
Behind the diminutive face of Conan Edogawa, Jimmy Kudo rolled his eyes and watched his would-be playmates scatter. After all the times he had been shanghaied into playing this silly game with them, he still couldn’t grasp the attraction hide-and-seek held—even for actual children. What was the fun of running off to crouch in some dark, stuffy spot until another kid came along and found you?
He could at least see the appeal of being the seeker, he mused. It was a crude exercise in satisfying the same primal instinct that made killers—and detectives—enjoy the hunt. However, it was lackluster when the prey was so far beneath his intellectual level. Besides, George had long since declared that Conan wasn’t allowed to do the seeking anyway, because he was just too good at it.
With a shake of his head, Conan turned and sauntered away… on a course that took him out of the park entirely.
Half an hour later, Rachel found the boy quietly reading on the couch in her father’s office.
“Oh, I didn’t expect to see you home yet. I thought you were still out playing with your friends!”
“I am,” Conan replied, looking up from his book to smile cheekily. “They’ll get to have fun looking for me the whole rest of the afternoon!”
Unfortunately, his smugness was short-lived—because the shrill scolding Rachel gave him about his treatment of his friends drove him straight back to the park again.
© 2016 Jordanna Morgan
Author:
jordannamorganArchive Rights: Please request the author’s consent.
Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Jimmy (Conan), Rachel, and the Junior Detective League.
Setting: General.
Summary: Some games are easier to escape than others… or maybe not.
Disclaimer: “Detective Conan/Case Closed” belongs to Gosho Aoyama.
Notes: Written for the prompt “Hide And Seek” at
fan_flashworks.“Seven… eight… nine… eleven…”
Behind the diminutive face of Conan Edogawa, Jimmy Kudo rolled his eyes and watched his would-be playmates scatter. After all the times he had been shanghaied into playing this silly game with them, he still couldn’t grasp the attraction hide-and-seek held—even for actual children. What was the fun of running off to crouch in some dark, stuffy spot until another kid came along and found you?
He could at least see the appeal of being the seeker, he mused. It was a crude exercise in satisfying the same primal instinct that made killers—and detectives—enjoy the hunt. However, it was lackluster when the prey was so far beneath his intellectual level. Besides, George had long since declared that Conan wasn’t allowed to do the seeking anyway, because he was just too good at it.
With a shake of his head, Conan turned and sauntered away… on a course that took him out of the park entirely.
Half an hour later, Rachel found the boy quietly reading on the couch in her father’s office.
“Oh, I didn’t expect to see you home yet. I thought you were still out playing with your friends!”
“I am,” Conan replied, looking up from his book to smile cheekily. “They’ll get to have fun looking for me the whole rest of the afternoon!”
Unfortunately, his smugness was short-lived—because the shrill scolding Rachel gave him about his treatment of his friends drove him straight back to the park again.
© 2016 Jordanna Morgan