Oops

[deductiongeek]

Who: Conan and Anyone
Where: Luggage Car
When: Early Morning, Imagination 25
What: Ran gave Conan a sleeping pill. It was not a sleeping pill. Welcome back, Shinichi.
Warnings: Apotoxin related pain

It is early in the morning when Conan wakes up his cabin to an all too familiar spasm of pain in his chest. He doubles over as he rides the pain out, and then immediately bails out of bed in a panic. He has just enough presence of mind to grab up a blanket before running out of the room, He heads away from the sleeper cars, knowing that there would be no privacy in that direction, and dashes through the dressing room and triage cars.

It was early. There was a chance that the luggage car would be empty at this hour.

He could not let anyone see this. 

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[deductiongeek]

[He straightens back up with a grimace. He knew her well enough to know that there was no way she would be letting this go now. He hadn't wanted her to know the truth.... But his options were narrowing by the second.

Allowing himself to be taken to medical? That would just mean that more people would find out. His preference was to get through this alone, but it all down to damage control now. And that meant keeping the number of people witnessing this to as few as possible.]

Medical won't be able to do anything for me. [He decided to be blunt about it.]

[tactlesstantei]

Medical can’t help you?

[There weren’t very many options for what would make Conan try to hide this from her and avoid medical. And Masumi had briefly seen Shinichi in a similar state in Kyoto, but initially hadn’t considered that due to how unlikely it was.

But then again, it wasn’t like there were many other options here.]

So...this is like in Kyoto, when you suddenly looked in pain and left

[Masumi, he won’t remember that.]

[deductiongeek]

[He stare at her blankly.]

When were we ever in Kyoto together?

[tactlesstantei]

[Ah, right. This again. Masumi had dealt with something like this on the arrival platform with Ai, but it was still weird remembering something no one else did.]

I was on a class trip to Kyoto right before I was brought here. Ran and Shinichi were there too, but he suddenly left before the class was supposed to go back. I tried to follow, but couldn’t find him, and then the class was told not to tell anyone he was at the trip.

[She’s sure Conan can figure out what she’s getting at here.]

[deductiongeek]

[ He was completely certain that he'd never gone to Kyoto on a class trip. But he'd encountered this time time of time difference before... and knew she'd have no reason to lie about this.

Even if he knew exactly what she was getting at. He grimaces at another spasm of pain, and tries to consider his options.

There weren't many. He makes a play for time.]

Why would I be on Ran's class trip?

[tactlesstantei]

[There's no time to really give Conan a chance to argue or dodge the topic right now, so Masumi just plunges into the facts, laying out what she knows in a break from her more roundabout tactics.]

Look, I know you're Shinichi, I've known for a while, and I know that you - the you from my world - had access to some sort of antidote in Kyoto in order to attend the class trip, but I don't know how you got an antidote now. I won't tell anyone if that's what you want, but I'm not going away to let you deal with this alone.

[She's been waiting a while to be this direct about what she knows.]

[deductiongeek]

[He'd suspected, but he hadn't expected to get confirmation so directly.And this really wasn't the time to dig into this, although he did want to talk to her about this later.

As it was, he just slumps as the panicked energy that had been sustaining him drains away.]

In that case, there's not much point in putting up the act any longer. [He blows out his breath in a huff.]

I need privacy. What's about to happen isn't pleasant, and I don't want anyone watching it. I was hoping the baggage car would be empty at this time of day.

[tactlesstantei]

[And in return, Masumi didn't expect that to actually work. She'd been half expecting Conan to try and avoid it again, even now, so it's a second before she can respond properly.]

Then you're going to need help making sure people keep out. It's early enough that most people aren't up yet, but I doubt you want someone to walk in on you.

[deductiongeek]

[He definitely wasn't pleased at adding another person to the small circle of people who knew... but he also knew when a fight was lost. He needed to focus on damage control now.]

We need to talk later, but can you do me a favor and take care of that for now? I need to get out of sight before its too late.

[He hunches over as another spasm of pain hits his chest.]

[unholyandbroken]

"Pardon the smoke!" Jessie is mid drag when she slips into the car. A smoke post flashback was a ritual by now. But she is on her guard after the sound,"Anyone?"