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Written January 27 2020
Posted February 16 2020

Last part of Mistake

A week, Ai had been working on the final cure for about a week. Which mean that Kaito's internal organs had been continuously shrinking and growing for a whole week. It was currently Saguru's turn to watch over the magician. Teary gold was firm as the blond wiped away the blood from Kaito's most recent change, he didn't care that he'd probably have to do the same thing in around 30 minutes. His hand trembled as he wiped away the last bits, he just couldn't bare to see so much blood covering the other.

Kaito had gained brief consciousness a few times in the beginning, but he hadn't for a few days now. The interval between changes was now too brief for the magician to recover enough from the pain to regain consciousness.

Ai was currently holed up in her lab, working relentlessly on the cure. She was close, but Kaito's health was diminishing rapidly. Blood could drip into the body only so fast until it was unsafe, so the magician's face was chalk white from blood loss. Not to mention how the strain was weakening the teen's muscles. Thankfully his heart was one of the organs that didn't shrink, unfortunately his lungs were, which explained why he always coughed up blood early into the changes.

Thankfully Kaito had yet to have anymore seizures, Ai had hypothesized that he'd only seized in the first place due to the drug being in effect for so long. Instead the magician writhed and thrashed, often making agonized cries as the two detectives were helpless to do anything but wait until they could administer the pill. Then it would start up anew until Kaito's organs were the right size again.

Since the changes were so close together, they'd had to strap the magician down. The danger of something going wrong with his catheter and many IVs during his changes was too high. They didn't want to cause any damage from repeatedly removing and inserting them.

A pained whimper made Saguru's heart lurch, he gave Kaito's right hand a reassuring squeeze. He wanted to talk to the magician, but at the same time was glad that Kaito wasn't waking. It meant that there was a chance that the pain felt was lessened. He glanced at his pocket watch, eyes dark as he noted that the change would happen again any second now.

The heart monitor wailed at the increase in Kaito's heart rate, Saguru swallowed. Right on time.

*

"This has to be it Kudo-kun..." Ai breathed, dark circles surrounding her eyes from sleepless nights. She held out a blue and white capsule "Kuroba-kun will die in the time it will take to synthesize another version" It was a miracle in itself that the time limit of the temporary cure had stalled for so long at half an hour.

Conan nodded, Azure dull as he accepted the pill "The fatality rate is high, but Kaito will die anyways if he doesn't take it..." His eyes watered "Thank you Haibara" The tiny scientist had worked so hard on it, she'd done her best in the time that she'd had.

Ai's gaze turned back towards her work station "If only he hadn't fought it and thrown up..." Then he would have ended up like Conan, small but not in danger of dying. She would have had more than enough time to create a safer cure then.

"He wouldn't be who he is if he didn't fight" Conan was grinning, his eyes weren't "His organs should be shrinking again soon, I'll head upstairs" He'd let Ai have some peace.

*

He arrived up the stairs just as Saguru was about to administer the temporary cure "Wait!" Saguru jolted, gold widening at the other's abrupt arrival.

"She did it?" He didn't care that he sounded desperate, he just wanted his friend's suffering to end.

Conan nodded, hopping up to give the writhing teen the pill, fear chilling his bones as he watched the magician swallow "It's the best that she could do" He sank to his knees as a piercing scream ripped itself from Kaito's throat "It was too dangerous to wait for a safer cure" His voice wavered.

Gold softened "I understand" His best friend would either survive this last change, or die.

*

The screams, oh god the screams. Tears were streaming down both of the detective's faces, it hurt to see Kaito like this. The magician was suffering more than usual this time.

There was also more blood than usual.

*

Kaito trembled, his whole body feeling weak. He opened his mouth to speak but instead curled up in pain. His throat was on fire, and he could taste nothing but blood. What the hell happened to him? He could hear two familiar voices but he couldn't really make out what they were saying.

He felt something being pushed to his lips so he opened his mouth, he trusted these people, whoever they were. The water was soothing, easing the pain in his throat, the thing must have been a straw.

Indigos blearily blinked open, his vision was fuzzy for a few moments before clearing. It was Conan and Saguru, they were speaking but he still felt too out of it to understand them so he just offered them a warm smile. He remembered something about dying, so they must have saved him. He was so tired, maybe if he slept he'd understand them later

*

"Kaito!" Saguru felt fear ice his veins when the magician closed his eyes, going limp.

"Don't bother him" Ai sighed, glancing over the sleeping teen "His body is exhausted from everything that happened this week" All of those changes and the pain had to be taking a toll on Kaito "I also dosed him with some strong painkillers"

Conan let out a relieved breath "My transformations also took a huge toll on me, it must be worse for Kaito though" Azure softened, now that he was resting normally, Kaito wasn't in danger of bleeding out.

"Tell me if anything odd happens" Ai yawned, covering her mouth "I'm going to sleep" Then she'd start working on a safer cure for Conan.

Me: So how was this? It was very fun to write~

I was tempted to patch in a middle piece full of suffering but decided not to...

Hope you enjoyed~

I really loved writing the first part of this >^< so much fun... That I ended up writing both parts in the same day