Chapter Twenty-Four: The Second Victim Of Pandora II

Hayley's POV

"What are they doing here?" That's the first thing I've heard when I arrived at the abandoned building, ordered by Gin. "I told you to just bring the detective's girl, not Sherry nor the stinky old man."

"I thought they could lend help if we ask something to make, especially the Professor Agasa who can invent things," I said.

Gin sighed and turned his back on me. He's probably really frustrated right now that I've kicked some few rules given to us.

"Whatever might be useful to the organization," Gin said and waved his hand.

Some black men assist the shaking Professor from a far distance with the unconscious Ran. Sherry followed us through as we got into one room in the abandoned building.

In there, there are tons of people I have familiarized with. All of them were close to my parents: Chianti, Korn, Bourbon, and Kir were some of them.

"Well, who's this girl, anyway?" Chianti asked, crossing her arms as she chewed the gum on her mouth too loudly.

"This is Eclipse, our new member. She'll be assigned on sniping, kidnapping, and also finding some information to all of our foes in no time," Gin answered.

Chianti stopped chewing her gum and looked at me with a dumb expression as she moved her eyes up and down my body before looking at me, straight in the eyes. "Well, let's see how she is going to make her work done," she said and smrked. "Nice to meet you by the way. Chianti," she introduced. "I'm more than a professional sniper than you. Killing people feels good to my nerves, seeing their eyes wide open with fear as I killed them gave me satisfaction."

"Oh, really? Well, I think you shouldn't tell me that, Chianti. I may look weak but my standards are much more higher than words. Shooting things was my thing. Never get missed on shooting small cans while I was a kid trained by my father."

"You're a daughter of a demon," she said. Her teeth gritting like a wolf.

"What did you say? Can I listen to it one more time please," I teased her with a big smirk plastered on my lips. "

Suddenly, Gin messes up our conversation and pushed as back with force. "Enough. Let's end the fight here. We must take our missions seriously first before all of your bickering," He clicked his tongue while looking at us with disgust, "Nasty rats."

He walked pass us. His back was facing us with his hands clasped to his back.

What he just said broke my heart and made me want to cry. I'm a nasty rat like the other organization members? Tsk. Like how could I? I'm much more clean than them.

"Well, Eclipse, I have a question to ask. What is that Sherry doing here and why did you brought her here? What is the purpose of that bastard old man here? And why does this came too unexpected for you to kidnap Mouri Ran?"

"Well, seems pretty funny but I brought Sherry here for a purpose with that bastard old man you hated to see. They could make a drug for me to make Kudo Shinichi's girl's memories fade away."

"Amnesia?" Kir said.

"Not exactly. I would put the drug inside her body as Sherry and the other professor finishes it...if you just wanna give me permission."

"I see what's going on here. What's the plan, my dear?" Vermouth asked.

"My dear?" Kir repeated, frowning. "What does that mean?"

Vermouth stayed to her composure, not minding what Kir asked. "What is it, Eclipse?"

"Chianti, Korn, you're targets are the police officers if they allied with some police officers. Vermouth and Kir, confuse the rest of the police officers. Gin, Vodka, do what you want to do."

"Damn, I thought we have an order," Vodka complained and go out of the room with Gin.

"The rest, go to your positions. We have no time to waste," I said and looked at Sherry who's standing on the side. I walked towards her and took one bottle of an antidote -- that our previous scientist from the organization made. "Here. Drink this. It'll help you regenerate your body like an energy drink."

She grabs it to me and drink it with no hesitation. The truth is, Sherry really remembers Ran earlier. She just acted like she cannot remember anything but now, I'll make it real.

As I saw her legs limping to stand and her eyes rolling up, my eyes darkened with desire. "Sorry, Sherry but you're not going to be the Haibara they knew. I'll make you one with the organization again. That is, to make the Pandora worth it for your memories, your heart, your mind, and your feelings to bring back what they were before this all happened."

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"Where am I? Who am I?" I closed the magazine I'm reading and put it down to the rusty coffee table beside me and looked at Sherry, who just woke up from her one-hour sleep.

"Ohayou, Sherry-san," I greeted that made her flinched and looked at me with shaking eyes.

"W-Who are you?" she stuttered.

I smiled at her. "Hi. My name's Eclipse and you're name is Sherry. You are our new scientist. Your assistant is waiting for you. Make an antidote for me."

She frowned. "Why?"

"To make Kudo Shinichi fall in love with me."

"Kudo? Who is Kudo?"

"My love. Now, get your job done, will you?"

Sherry's (Haibara) POV

I changed to a black knitted long sleeves, dark blue pants and a white robe and do what Eclipse ordered me to do.

As I do the antidote she's talking about, my head is twitching so badly as if someone hit my head. I tried to let it out of my mind and focused of what I am doing but then, the old man, my assistant, just keeps on whispering to me.

He keeps calling me, "Haibara, Haibara!" or "Ai-kun!", but I'm not paying attention to any of his calls but then, he nudged his shoulder to mine so I got frustrated and looked at him.

"What?"

"Why aren't you looking at me, Ai-kun?"

"Why are you calling me with different names? My name's Sherry, not Haibara nor Ai."

"What is happening to you, Ai-kun? Did that girl did something to--"

"Oh, just shut up and do the work, old man." I looked up and saw Eclipse walking to us. She looked at my progress. "Very impressive. You're fast."

"Thank you," I said and noticed to the corner of my eyes a woman lying down on the floor, back facing the wall. "Who is that girl?"

"Oh, her?" Eclipse pointed at the girl with the long brown hair. "That's Mouri Ran, an international lawyer and the one who is taking my love away from me."

"Your love?"

"Yes. When she get into our lives, our relationship was broken to the point our connection to each other had also failed to reach. Our knots had been untied so I want to get rid of her."

"Is she his first love?"

"Y-Yeah, seems like, but like I said, I think all of those were lies. I knew I am his first love. I'm his first after all," she said. "There's also someone who loves the man I love except for her."

As she mentioned that. my heart beats eratically fast. "W-Who is she?"

"Not mentioning the name though to keep it private but yeah, she also have feelings for him but she decided to keep the love she feels for him to herself. She's still risking to protect him and his lover even though it hurts."

Suddenly, we heard some shuffling from the distance and I have seen the unconscious woman's eyes fluttered open with the most innocent look and her eyes landed on me first, giving us an eye contact to each other.

"H-Haibara, where are we?"