When does a detective do without cases

[deductiongeek]

Who: Conan and Anyone
When: Day 4
What: Yet another day of being incredibly bored.
Where: Various

For Peter.
Tucking the package he'd collected under one arm, Conan sets off in search of Peter. There were things that needed to be discussed. (He didn't have much hope that Peter would be able to help him. But maybe a little hope was better than doing nothing.)

Gym:
Conan spends most of the morning in the gym car, kicking a soccerball against the walls. After a while he starts testing himself to see how many times he could make it rebound off the wall in different angles and still hit a target with enough force.

Game Car:
Later Conan moves to the game car and lays out a complicated game of solitaire. But... it only takes a few rounds to get bored of that. He starts searching through the game collection for any other single player strategy options.

Comments

Game car

[dredefulchilde]

It’s impossible not to be bored on the train. Joscelin has read his books through multiple times at this point and he’s explored every singe millimeter of the parts of the train he has easy access too. Just sitting around waiting for Peter Parker to glue his toothbrush to his face and provide some needed levity gets old.

He wanders into the game car and notices Conan rifling through the games.

“There’s a two player mode on that racing game,” he offers. “Want a match?”

[deductiongeek]

Now here was a problem. Conan was very, very bored.

He was also very, very bad at video games. The detective boys had often mocked him for it. And when normal first graders were laughing at your gaming skills, you know they were bad.

Finally he shrugs.

"I guess I could give it a try."

Maybe this one would be better than the last one he'd tried.

[hashtagparkerluck]

This time of day Peter's found in the dressing car with a book in hand, casually reading one of the library books as foot hangs off the side of his web hammock. He glances up when he hears someone coming and notes that it's Conan.

"Oh! Hey, Conan!" He greets in his usually cheer. He doesn't say anything about package in his arm but he does note that it's there.

[deductiongeek]

"Do you have time to talk?" Conan was already considering whether there was enough privacy here.

Game Car

[stealsyourheart]

"Want an opponent?"

Kaito's voice comes from the ceiling, where he's hanging by his fingernails, clearly as bored as Conan.

Re: Game Car

[deductiongeek]

Conan wasn't even going to ask.

"Its your game pick this time."

[stealsyourheart]

"Hmmmmm. Want to try one of the Escape Room simulators?"

[hashtagparkerluck]

"Pretty much always." Peter says as he sets his book aside and rolls on out of his hammock. He lands nearby in his usual spider-like crouch and then stands up again. "What's up?"

[deductiongeek]

Conan waits for him to land before he says anything.

"I picked up the delivery you were interested in."

[deductiongeek]

"I guess its worth try."

He wasn't expecting much.

"By the way, do you know someone named Aoko?"

[stealsyourheart]

"Ah, she's spoken to you? Yeah. She's my ...." my love interest, my best friend, my world "... childhood friend. We grew up together - you know her dad. She's Nakamori's daughter."

[hashtagparkerluck]

Peter's still just not so sure all the secrecy is necessary-or even a good idea because people need to know there's a threat in order to protect him and possibly themselves from it.

"Cool, cool. Let's see." He says, hold his hand out for the package. "Again, I wanna say I can't really make any promises-and I don't know how long it'll take-especially if I have to order some books for research but I'm deffo committed to helping you."

[deductiongeek]

"She mentioned that. And some other things."

Most of which Conan wasn't sure what to think about yet.

"Does she know?"

[deductiongeek]

Conan hands it over.

"I'm not expecting anything to come from this," Conan tells him. If Haibara, who had worked on the drug for years, hadn't been able to find a cure yet, he didn't put much hope in anyone here who wasn't familiar with the research being able to do anything.

But to do anything was better than the despair of knowing that there was nothing he could do while he was stuck here.

[stealsyourheart]

"Aheheheheh...."

He ducks his head and looks away.

"No. No more than you've told your Ran."

[deductiongeek]

"...Have you given any thought to what her reaction will be?"

They were far too alike here.

[stealsyourheart]

"She's going to kill me."

He says quietly.

"Probably. Unlike you and Miss Ran... she hates KID. She... once she finds out... it's... probably over between us."

[deductiongeek]

"She won't learn the truth from me," Conan promises.

A grimace.

"I'm not so sure if Ran will take it that much better. I've lied to her, for a long time."

[stealsyourheart]

"Thanks." He manages a smile for him.

A shake of his head.

"Ran-san will understand. You're just trying to protect her. But Aoko... Aoko hates KID so much. I've taken her dad away from her, you see. And she won't understand the breaking of the law part either - she's not that kind of person. Especially since I can't stop yet."

[deductiongeek]

"You have a reason, don't you? You don't think she would listen to an explanation?"

[stealsyourheart]

"I do. But I'm breaking the law. Aoko... won't stand for that."

[deductiongeek]

"Because of her father?"

[stealsyourheart]

"Yeah, but... Aoko's ... Aoko's good, y'know?"

He shrugs hopelessly. "She believes in the law, and in cops and... yeah."

[deductiongeek]

Conan sighs.

"That's quite some situation you've gotten yourself into."

He didn't believe in bad luck or coincidences. But... what were the odds that both of them would be in this situation with their childhood friends?

[stealsyourheart]

"Yeah." He smiles weakly.

"At least yours is easier to get through than mine?"

[deductiongeek]

"I don't know about that." A frown. "I wouldn't blame Ran if she decided that she wanted nothing to do with me after all this."

[stealsyourheart]

"From everything that I've seen, Miss Ran likes you a whole lot, and I don't think she'd turn you away."

[hashtagparkerluck]

"Wow, thanks for the vote of confidence." Peter says sarcastically, more ribbing the detective than anything. "Okay, so I'll read through these-see what I can figure out and where figure where I need more research and then I'll let you know if I need anything from there, sound good?"

He leafs through the notes-there's a lot of compounds he recognizes at least but a few he doesn't and few terms he'll need to look into, but he's still confident he'll at least be able to help.

"Fingers crossed, I guess."

[deductiongeek]

"And I lied to her and made her cry."

He fully believed that he deserved whatever Ran decided after this.

[stealsyourheart]

"Yes, but you also aren't going around brazenly flouting the law and getting her dad shot at." He points out dryly.

"I think she'll be really mad at you, and probably hit you, but unlike me, I think you're in with a good chance at forgiveness."

Not that he'd want to be ANYWHERE near Ran hitting things, thankyouverymuch!

[deductiongeek]

It was mostly because Conan had already spent the better part of a year like this, with every potential hope for a cure ending in disappointment.

Hope was a difficult thing to have.

Also, Peter had had a terrible first impression of his competence. And second impression.

In response to Peter he simply nods. "Let me know if you need anything else.