It had been weeks since they crushed the Organization. One last antidone had been made and after testing it on Shinichi, it was official that it is the final one.
It had been weeks, and Shiho still didn't take it. She couldn't bring herself to do it. Unlike Shinichi, she had noone who waited for her, nowhere to return to.
Nothing.
But Haibara Ai had a home. Friends who invite her to play, the professor who welcomes her inside his house.
She could just start over from the start.
No organization, no drugs, no guilt and no regrets.
She could just grow up with the kids, pretending nothing ever happened. Pretending her parents never were her parents. Living as if her sister was never alive and never killed.
She could do that, but that would mean giving up on their memory. If she really forgot, then who would remember them? Who would know they were even here? If she forgot about them and kept pretending, they would really be gone.
Gone and forgotten.
And that is something she could never let happen.
All she every did was run. Run from the organization, her past, her memories. She had been running for so long that she forgot how to stop. But now she wants to. She finally wants to stop and let her past catch up on her.
She won't run away. Not anymore.
The next morning the professor woke up to find Shiho sitting beside the kitchen counter, drinking tea and looking out of the window.
'So you finally decided.'
'Staying like that would mean running away. And I'm sick and tired of running.'
She turned to the professor with a bittersweet smile.
'After all, it would be foolish to escape from someone who is no longer chasing, wouldn't it?'