True Happiness (rewrite version)

Sharon Vineyard/Vermouth

AN: It's time! This original chapter is when Irene finally tries her plan! The shoes are purple, she's wearing gloves, and you know her hair is in a ponytail with the braids around her head. Hope you enjoy it!

Just to remind you:

"Hi!"= Talking in English

"Hi!"= Talking in Japanese

"Hi!"= Words on signs in English

"Hi!"= Words on signs in Japanese

Hi! = Narrator

Hi! = Flashback

'Hi!' = Thoughts

"Hi!" = Talking in flashback

"Hi!" = Talking on the phone

Hi! = Words on paper (unless it's at the beginning or end of the chapter /it had POV written beside it)

(Hi!) = Author-chan talking

Disclaimer: DCMK doesn't belong to me it belongs to the great Aoyama Gosho. I only own the story and the OC~

Narrator pov. On the way to the phonebooth~

Irene stayed with Haibara as planned and reassured her that everything would be fine then helped her get some rest since she was still sick before leaving, letting Ginga watch over Haibara when she noticed it was almost time.

She noticed the dove following her on the way but didn't pay it much mind, she knew Kuroba would do this after all.

She couldn't help but feel relieved when she noticed a certain Jaguar parked by an alley close by, so Miyuki was okay.

'Either that or she didn't end up being needed... Which is fine.' she thought to herself just when the phonebooth came into view and Vermouth, injured, was crawling inside of it, so Gin wasn't called yet.

She smiled a bit in relief before she stopped right outside the booth and cleared her throat a bit.

Vermouth immediately looked at her with a suspicious glare but Irene just gave a bit of a smile and greeted, "Ohayo, Sharon-san... Or do you prefer Vermouth while at work?"

Vermouth's eyes narrowed as she had her back pressed against the phone booth wall and replied, "Who are you?" cursing internally at her injury.

Irene explained, "Ah, don't worry I'm not here to hurt you or anything. I mean, we're technically enemies but we don't have to be." she then introduced herself, "I'm Karashima Sakura, though right now I'm Midorikawa Irene." she smiled, "And I'm the unknown first victim of the drug." 

Vermouth's eyes widened before she seemed to put on a poker face, smirking as she thought 'Well this is an interesting encounter...' 

Irene continued, "I'm friends with Kudo-kun and Mouri-san. Mostly Kudo-kun though, and the FBI. And I'm not in the database of the victims of the drug because I don't really exist in this world."

She took a deep breath, "And the reason I'm telling you all this is because I want to... make a deal."

Vermouth raised an eyebrow in what seemed to be interest and curiosity, "A deal?" she smirked wider, "Please elaborate."

Irene nodded and explained, "I want you to be a spy in the organization for us." at Vermouth's pause, she continued, "Like I said, we don't have to be enemies. And I know you don't want Kudo-kun and Mouri-san to be hunted down by Them so..."

She smiled a bit, "This would be in your best interest so they would be safe. And you won't be caught since you're the boss's favorite." she had her hands behind her back and asked, "So... What do you say?"

There was a bit of silence before Vermouth snorted and shook her head with a small laugh, well as much as she could laugh with her injury, surprising Irene as she asked, "What's so funny?" 

Vermouth finally answered, "I don't know how you know so much, but I think you read me wrong." she smirked, "I'm not against the organization even if I do want to protect those two."

Irene paused, "Eh? But-" 

Vermouth added, "And I'm the boss's favorite because I'm loyal to him. And that's why he trusts me." she raised an eyebrow, "Do you know how many people I killed for him? I killed agents before. And I have no problem with killing children if you presumed I did."

Irene paled a bit, 'Please don't tell me...'

Vermouth then said, "So the answer is no. But don't worry, your efforts aren't completely fruitless." she smirked, "You just made me more interested in you... as a target." 

Irene stepped back, gulping a bit as Vermouth added, "Since you are connected to Cool Guy, I won't report you to Boss..." she smirked again coldly, "But I didn't need him to target Sherry now did I?"

Realizing how badly this went, Irene ran off.

Vermouth watched, smirking, 'Looks like I got a new kitty to play with and catch.' she then reached up for the phone to call Gin to pick her up, of course, she wasn't going to tell anyone about her new enemy, where was the fun in that?

Meanwhile, lots of panicked thoughts ran through Irene's head as what Vermouth announced replayed, "You just made me more interested in you... as a target." 

'I messed up, I messed up, I messed up, I messed up-' she thought to herself as she reached Miyuki's car and got in the passenger seat, she closed the door silently before Miyuki drove off back to the train station.

"Sakura-chan, breathe." Miyuki said while giving her a side glance, "It's okay." 

Irene covered her face, "How is it okay, Miyu-chan? I messed up! And now she named me as her new personal target!"

Miyuki reassured, "Well, she's injured, so she won't be able to come after you for a long time. Plus, you're close to Shinichi so she won't try to come after you whenever you're with him. And you don't live in Beika, so as long as you don't go there except for school you'll be okay."

"And I and the FBI are here, so we'll protect you as much as we can." she smiled reassuringly, "You'll be okay, promise."

Irene looked at her through her hands before taking a deep breath, and slowly letting it out to calm down, nodding, "Okay." she said softly, "Okay..."

Miyuki sighed, "Kaito is so gonna kill us when we get there though, since I agreed to your plan when he knew it was dangerous."

Irene slumped, "Probably. But I hope he saves his scolding for later..." She placed her elbow against the car window, her head leaning on it as she looked out, now exhausted, "I'm not in the mood..."

Well, she learned the hard way a really important and hard lesson that other fans wouldn't have seen coming as much as she didn't.

Sharon Vineyard, or Vermouth, was not to be trusted as an ally. At all.

AN: Done. Hope you guys liked it!

Yep, the idea failed and now she's Vermouth's next secret target. Oof.

Bet none of you (especially those who came from the old version) saw that coming eh?

I told you there are a lot of changes, plus this is closer to Vermouth's canon personality since she isn't nice.

For goodness's sake, she was okay with killing Jodie as a kid in the fire she set to get rid of her father's corpse by tricking her into staying there!

So yeah, no way is she friendly.

At least she won't immediately come after Irene though, so that's a bit of a relief.

So what did you guys think? Did you like it? Which part was your favorite? Hope to see your feedback soon!

That's all. See you next chapter!

Stay sweet my fellow anime lovers!~

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