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hurt/comfort meme

the hurt/comfort meme

Hurt/Comfort - Hurt/comfort is a fan fiction genre that involves the physical pain or emotional distress of one character, who is cared for by another character. The injury, sickness or other kind of hurt allows an exploration of the characters and their relationship.

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1. INJURY. You've been injured. Broken bones or bleeding out or maybe just a tiny little papercut. The choice is yours.
2. SICKNESS. You're sick and laid up in bed, at home or in a hospital. The severity is up to you.
3. FEAR/ANXIETY. Something is happening and you're scared beyond belief.
4. LOSS OF SENSES. Sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, etc. You've lost some important sense or ability and now you're left to deal with it.
5. DESPAIR. Nothing is good or right anymore and you can't shake the depression. Maybe that friend of yours can help though...
6. BREAKUP. You've been dumped. You need someone to comfort you, possibly by the one who dumped you.
7. MAKE UP. Fight or break up, it's time to makeup.
8. RESCUED. You've just been held captive and/or tortured for however long and finally, someone has come to the rescue.
9. BAD ROMANCE. Fight, cheated on, abused, whatever the case is, someone else can clearly see you need comfort from someone who isn't your terrible lover tonight.
10. LOSS. You've experience a loss of some kind and need help getting through it.
11. INSANITY. You're seeing things that aren't really there, hearing voices, or you're just convinced you're at your wit's end finally and you're going to crack. Maybe someone can give you a helping hand.
12. TIRED. You've had a heard life recently and you're just worn too thin to really care anymore. There's no fight left in you anymore. Can someone help change your mind?
13. ADDICTION. Drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling, or any other type of addiction has got you in its grasp. First time or relapse. Will someone be able to save you?
14. INSOMNIA. You can't sleep anymore, no matter how hard you try. Maybe someone can give you company.
15. NIGHTMARES. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, you can't sleep without gruesome, horrible nightmares. Either someone is stuck in your dream with you, witnessing it or they're just waking you up, soothing you out of it.
16. BLACKMAIL. You've been caught doing something you shouldn't and you were blackmailed because of it
17. SEPARATION. You're going to be separated for awhile or were separated for a long time. Either make up for lost time or try to spend every last moment together.
18. VIOLATED. You've been violated in some way. Can include sexual overtones or not. Can someone help you through it?
19. STRANDED. You've been stranded somewhere remote, with no help of anyone finding you for awhile. Can you survive this together?
20. SINS. You're feeling the weight of your sins and guilt clearer than ever. Can someone give you absolution or lessen the ache any?
21. SECRET. It's difficult having to keep that secret of yours, be it a relationship or something you just don't want to share with anybody else. Maybe it's okay to talk about it now though...
22. ADDITION. Babies should be joyous things unless you're in a situation where you know you won't be able to care for them. Either you've adopted or found out you're pregnant.

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[ Kaito raises an eyebrow at the other and very carefully steps into what he can only describe as the lion's den. He gives the room a quick look over and as any thief might takes note of all routes to a possible exit. ]

Thanks but if it's all the same to you I'll just grab coffee on the way home. [ it's unlikely to be drugged but he'd rather not take the chance. ]

I have enough problem to deal with-the faster I can find the bastard that thinks they can control The Kaitou Kid the better.

[Sherlock hums his acknowledgement, but he continues making tea all the same. Just because Kid doesn't want a drink of it doesn't mean he has to go without.]

I wasn't involved in the Nightmare case.

[He gets two cups out, but be only puts a tea bag in one. It's so hard to find good English tea in Japan, so he's settling for an import Chinese Oolong.]

I've seen the case files, but Tokyo Metropolitan is of the same calibre as New Scotland Yard. Too many holes. You were involved, though. Closely. And the person who's blackmailing you knows about it. But that's all too obvious.

[He leans on the bar counter, looking over it towards Kid.]

At some point, you learned Nightmare's true identity. The blackmailer is using that as collateral because you feel responsible to Nightmare's son to keep that identity secret.

[All of this is coming from that one little line: The dreams of a six year old thank you. It hadn't been difficult for him to make the connections to Jack Connery who also happened to find himself conveniently involved in the Nightmare case.]

[ He's not sure how he's gotten that far in such a short time but that hardly matters. He moves over to the window and gently pushes the curtains apart to see if there's anyone gathering below. So far so good. ]

Kenta Connery has a brain tumor that needs to be removed-his father became the Nightmare in order to pay for it. He forced me into working with him and since I had worked out the truth of his identity was going to kill me-however at the moment his son called out to him and he lost his footing.

[ He closes his eyes-death isn't something he enjoys thinking about much less talking about it. ]

I tried to save him but he refused to let go of the jewel in hand. My glove slipped off and he fell. I shot the mask he wore as Nightmare off with the cardgun I couldn't let Kenta find out the truth about the father he looked up to.

I've narrowed it down to the Interpol agents that worked the Nightmare case but that's as far as I've gotten.

[Sherlock listens to this part of the story. None of it had made it into the record and it gives him a sliver more information to work with. He'd assumed the child had been a motivator for the crime somehow, but he hadn't known about the brain tumour.]

Probably better this way. If he'd used the money to pay for the treatment, inquiries would have been made and he would have been discovered. Wouldn't have been long before he was arrested. And the media would have had a field day.

[This is one of those times he could use someone to act as moral compass. He only realises after the fact that speaking like this about a dead man is a bit callous.

He clears his throat and pours boiled water into his mug.]

I've a list of the Interpol agents directly involved in the case, but I'll need more to go on than that. When were you first contacted by your blackmailer and what did he say?

If he'd used the money to pay for the surgery Kenta would have gotten the surgery and that was the whole point. A doctor had told Kenta-kun that if he continued to take the medicine he'd been given the 'bad horse' would disappear without a surgery however, the inspector's daughter was able to correctly identify that medicine as a painkiller. The tumor wasn't going to go away with those alone-Kenta needed that surgery and Connery-san knew that. To him it was the only way to save his son. People do desperate things for their children.

[ Kaito points out-his dad would have done the same for him and it's because of that reason he feels personally responsible for protecting Kenta from the truth. ]

The first request came a month ago on the fourth-I ignored it at first as couldn't see a reason why this person had any claim over the painting. The request was made again on the eighth of this month and this time much more insistent.

[ Are you ready for this Sherlock because he's about to change his voice. ]

'I know what really happened the night Jack Connery died. And after you went through such lengths to hide it.

People do stupid things for their children. He'd choose to sacrifice his son's happiness for his life. By going through with his plan, he would have left his son just out of surgery to fend for himself against the media aftermath.

[Sherlock's well aware of the folly of making bad decisions for good reasons and the painful downfall it can have on the very same individuals one had been trying to protect. It doesn't change what had happened and what would have happened had Nightmare accomplished his task before his untimely demise.

He shakes his head. There's no use getting invested in the outcome of this case, so he pushes all of that aside to focus on the new information.]

Was it a voice recording or are you doing that for effect?

[Kid's skill's rather impressive, actually. The accent and the timbre both change and they change consistently, but he's not going to give Kid the satisfaction of making a big deal about it.]

Of course it was a recording and most likely some kind of voice modifier. [ Just ignore the fact that he just admitted to having some kind of voicemail to take heist requests. ]

[ Once Kaito's relatively sure that there's no traps ready to be sprung on him he sits at the edge of the bed closest the window. ]

My accomplice and I have been trying to see when they collect the stolen paintings from the drop point but somehow that hasn't worked out so well.

Voice modifiers can change pitch, but not accent. Unless they've accounted for it and used a false one, but only the truly paranoid would bother if they've got a voice modifier.

[Sherlock's starting to get that urge to pace around, but he suppresses it and taps on the counter top with his fingertips instead.]

Tell me about your accomplice. And no, I won't go out to arrest him once I have a name.

[ Nope. No can do. He's not willing to risk Jii's freedom on this matter and besides if he were to say anything about his accomplice then it'd only be a matter of time before anyone could piece together that the Kaitou Kid is actually Kuroba Toichi's son. ]

Apologies, but the only thing I'll say regarding my accomplice is that he's been with me since the beginning and I would trust him with my life.

[Sherlock rolls his eyes at Kid's unwillingness to give him anything useful. Can he blame him? Not really, but it's still annoying.]

You may trust your accomplice, but he seems incapable of performing the task you need him to.

[He turns his attention back to his tea to remove the bag and then to add some tea and chilled milk he's been keeping in the complimentary ice bucket.]

You've already handed off the painting or I would have suggested leaving me to oversee it. We could still do that with the next one, though I plan to have this solved before then.

[ He's also almost sixty so Kaito has a bit of difficulty holding it against him. ]

My accomplice is competent enough-we've wired several cameras around all entrance and exit points. No one goes in aside from me and no one goes out. The obvious answer is that he's coming from below so we're trying to get the blue prints to compare with a map of the city.

The problem is that it's an old building so it's it's been difficult to track down.

Could be you're asking the wrong people.

[Sherlock reaches for his phone and starts to look through it. It's obvious that there must be some other way in and out of the building and underground is the only thing that makes sense. A helicopter would make too much noise and that would have been picked up by the cameras.]

An abandoned building. Has it been that way for long? What's the address?

[He's already checking through his contacts with the vagrant population. They're around all of the big cities and no one ever pays them any mind. If anyone knows the complete layout of an abandoned building, it would be the ones who might have needed to use it to keep warm over the winter.]

There aren't a whole lot of people I can go to about this. You do realize I'm an internationally wanted thief, right? [ And now the international part was even true! ] And most other thieves aren't willing to work with me because there's a sixty percent chance they'll end up in jail.

[ He does kind of have a reputation for putting the worse criminals behind bars. It's not a great reputation to have if you want to network with the other thieves. ]

If I asked the brat detective the blackmailer is likely to end up dead and that Hakuba bastard would never let it go.

Exactly. You're asking the wrong people.

[Sherlock starts typing out a text he'll send to the five leader-types he's designated.]

But I have an invisible group of assistants that could help you with your blueprint problem for a small fee.

[He glances up from his phone.]

All I need is the address to the drop-off building.

[ He's argue that he has to be extremely careful about who he chooses to ally himself with but then he just accepted the offer from a detective-his natural born enemy. So instead and he just closes his eyes and crosses his arms before providing the address. ]

It's the same building that Jack Connery fell to his death in. [ So not exactly his favorite place since it just reminds him that he was unable to save the life of child's father. And loosing a parents was something Kaito wouldn't wish on anyone. ]

[Sherlock types in the address, then he presses the send button.]

Done.

[He sets his phone on the counter top with the display facing up. He expects to have an answer by the end of an hour and likely much earlier than that. It all depends on who's been there.]

I'm being discreet. No one knows we've been in contact and I'm not telling anyone why I'm asking.

[He's only choosing to tell Kid because he looks so incredibly agitated and nervous. He needs him to keep a clear mind if they want to get anywhere with this.]

Did he leave any other voice or text messages?

He's far too smart for that. The more often we're in contact the better chance I have of figuring out who it is. Just because I'm not a detective doesn't mean I don't know how to play the role. [ He just preferred not to because as a magician he only viewed them as critics-there to point out the flaws in another person's carefully laid out plan. ]

[ He pulls a piece of paper out of his jacket that has somehow managed to keep from crumpling and offers it to the detective. It's a picture of a painting-obviously the next heist. ]

I've already narrowed the list down to five but so far that's as far as I've gotten. [ Which is pretty impressive, he thinks considering he's not a detective. He could have been but where's the fun in that? ]

[Sherlock reaches past the bar to take the paper and look at it. He sniffs at it, then holds it up against the light. It doesn't do him much good because even identifying the printer model and type of ink cartridge can only get them so far when:]

It was printed in a library.

[He sighs and sets the paper down on the counter.]

Librarians are particularly hard to work with. They're ethically compelled to keep their patrons' identities and histories secret.

[If he worked with the police and used warrants, that might not be an issue. But that's not how he does things.]

You're good at disguising yourself. Perhaps if we find ourselves at a standstill, you should go nick the sign in sheets for the nearby libraries. A month's worth ought to do it.

[ It's scary that this guy can deduce the kind of building that picture came from. Kaito is a thief after all and if SH can deduce that sort of thing from a piece of paper then he's really concerned about what he'd managed to deduce about his 'client.' As much as he taunts the police he really doesn't want to go to jail. ]

Oi, oi. Just how much free time do you think I have? I now have another heist to plan. [ along with come up with several back up plans, find out if any unwanted guests would be attending said heist, not to mention he still had school to attend, homework to do, and a childhood friend to irritate on a daily basis. ]

Oh, I don't know. Enough time to be a professional thief.

[Sherlock can see the signs that Kid's a student, but that can only take up so much of one's time. Any student-aged boy who can plan out successful thefts of high value items and under maximum security can't have much difficulty with assignments. And as far as deducing Kid's unmasked identity? He's got enough to go on to put the pieces together with some research, but he doesn't care enough to do it.

Well, unless he finds himself in need of Kid's skill set sometime in the future.]

The name of your blackmailer is likely on one of those sign in sheets. Cross-reference that with the list of five Interpol agents you're suspicious of and you'll know who you're dealing with.

[His phone chimes and he picks it up.]

There's an underground passage to your drop off house. You can get to it from the Tokyo Metro tunnels.

[He turns the phone around to show Kid the unlabelled tunnel in question.]

You may alert the wrong attention going yourself, however. Even with the right costume, there's no telling who could be trailing you. I'll have my people look into taking some photographs for me and setting up a surveillance system for the next drop off.

[ Well, it's not really a surprise to him that there are underground tunnels but he is surprised at how quickly the information was acquired. Pretty impressive. For a detective anyway. ]

And being a professional thief is time consuming. [ There's a lot of planning involved after all. ]

besides, I once I know the way they've been entering the building I'll need to find a way to discredit anything that he says afterwards.

The first step is to find out who he is.

[Sherlock would gladly share more information about his homeless network: Tokyo edition, but not until after they've solved this case. No use tempting Kid to rush off without him. It would only mean he'd have to track down two people instead of just one.]

Once we know who it is, we can choose whether to open up negotiations or to retaliate by other means.

[The option he cares for least is blackmailing the blackmailer, but he's willing to resort to that. Once someone opens themselves up to such a foul profession, they deserve anything that's coming to them.]

[ Kaito has enough information now to continue on his own and gets up to leave. It clear his and the detectives methods are going to clash and because this has gone on long enough and he's unwilling to put up with it any longer than he has too. ]

I'm sorry detective, but I'm not about to negotiate anything with someone willing to hurt a child already grieving over the loss of a parent.

[ That little boys whole world was destroyed that night just as Kaito's had been destroyed eight years ago. It takes time to rebuild, to adapt because there is no healing. ]

You may reconsider your stance.

[Sherlock's not going to stop him from going and he's not going to stop working the case, either. He's got enough information to continue working on it. He'll do what he can to keep Nightmare's identity a secret, but he'll also do what he can to end Kid's blackmail.]

Your options are negotiation, blackmail, and murder. And you're not a murderer.

Murder? I don't need to murder anyone to destroy their life.

[ All he had to do was find evidence of another crime, get the paintings he'd stolen back, expose said crime and return the paintings to the museum along with an apology. The blackmailer was smart and the efficiency told Kaito that he wasn't the only one. ]

The next step is to find what else he's guilty of.

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