To Hold a Dove

Found

Chapter One:

Found

CHRISTIE POV

Christie Edogawa watched the dark clouds as they passed through the dimly lit sky. It was definitely going to rain today, she thought to herself. It was always on a rainy day that something bad seemed to happen, usually it had to do with Randy, her best friend and former lover. Ran, as he is called, and her, had once been together, laughing, spending time together and kissing like a normal average teenage couple; but that seemed like a lifetime ago, before she had been poisoned and turned into an eight year old child. Since then she had tried to keep contact with Ran as her original self, but one day she realized she couldn't keep holding him back from his own life. They ended their relationship on New Year's Day, a day that had only passed about fifteen days ago. It still felt like a lifetime ago even now and she couldn't help but wonder if she would ever be able to reclaim the life she had once led.

Sighing, she stood up and shook her head trying to erase such thoughts. They would only serve to make her depressed, but she couldn't help but want to wallow in her own self-pity. Pathetic, she muttered to herself.

"Christie", said a voice from behind her.

Christie turned and looked up at Professor Agasa who smiled at her, "I just finished the upgrade for your watch. You can now use it a total of five times in one day."

Christie smiled, she had been excited when he had told her about the upgrade. Finally, she thought to herself, maybe I can get that darn thief that evades me.

Kaitou Kid. Just the thought of him made her smile. If anyone knew she was thinking about him when she smiled like this, she knew they would think her crazy in love with the phantom thief, but she couldn't deny that there was something about him...something that attracted her and yet...he was a thief and her a detective, it would never work out.

Christie sighed again as Professor Agasa continued to chatter away to her about other neat ideas he had been thinking about trying. Christie would have just ignored him and continued to look outside to the now lightly sprinkling rain, but when she went to glance outside, something shiny and reflective caught her attention from afar.

Her eyes narrowed as she tried to use her glasses to zoom in, but when she did, she cried out and tackled the professor down just as a bullet whizzed past.

"W-what just happened?" asked the professor, his lab coat rumpled.

Christie scowled as she grabbed the watch now laying on the floor and put it on her wrist. She took off out the door, no longer seeing the reflection from the rooftop a few buildings over. Still, she ran as fast as her small legs could carry her. Behind her, she could hear more running feet. She glanced back only for a moment and saw Professor Agasa running after her and behind him, she saw walking at a slow pace was Haibara Ai, her close friend and the one formerly known as "Sherry" of the Black Organization "BO".

The Black Organization were the ones who had turned Christie from a teenager into a child, having originally thought the poison would kill her, leaving nothing behind to tie them to her murder. Sherry had also been force fed the same poison and now both were in hiding, because they knew, should the BO find them, they would not hesitate to kill them and all those who knew them. It was the main reason she never told anyone who she was willingly. Only a handful of people knew and she planned to keep it that way, for everyone's sake. Something told her however that, that idea would now be a problem.

Sure enough, when Christie got to the roof where a single shelling laid fallen at the roofs edge, she knew without a doubt it was the black organization, because she knew the shelling was a warning to her. They knew who she was and they were coming.