[026]

[oliverplus]

[Oliver is in the kitchen, putting the finishing touches of chocolate frosting on a round white cake. he also seems to have put quite a bit of frosting on his face, hands, and shirt--as well as some flour and other ingredients. cooking is not his strongest point. but he licks his finger and, after a second's consideration, seems satisfied] There we go! All done. Now for the note...

[he reaches into his pocket, withdrawing a piece of paper that is now also smeared with frosting. he frowns a little when he realises what he's done, absently wiping a chocolatey hand on his jeans. he then wipes at the chocolate on the note, but he quickly gives up that effort] Oh well. You can still read it, anyway... [he carefully folds the paper--spreading more chocolate as he does so--into a tent, which he sets up in front of the cake on the kitchen table. the note reads: "Free cake! Have some! -Oliver."

[once he has it sitting neatly, he takes a few steps back to survey his handiwork. he nods, apparently pleased] Okay, there's that. What else...? I should set out some plates, and napkins... Oh, forks! Maybe glasses, too. You've gotta have milk with cake... [he takes his frosting knife over to the sink and rinses it, and then he starts to rummage through cabinets. for the moment, he's focused on his task--but, unlike his recent desperate work in the library, this time he looks incredibly cheerful. he's even humming off-key snatches of music as he searches for utensils. on this occasion, he'll be glad to be interrupted. after all, he has cake to share!]

[ooc: Oliver, travelling with Ten, is sharing the canon update and has now experienced The Idiot's Latern--their version of it, at least. Also, the cake is not fantastic but it's decent cake, at least! Oliver hopes that everyone will enjoy it.]

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[oliverplus]

[Oliver is just really, really surprised to be alive. he smiles at the comment about milk] Shoulda known! Right, a nice pot of tea coming right up. [he gets up and fetches a pot, then fills it with water and puts it on the range]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[Conan might be doing this for Oliver's benefit, but there's no denying that there is something very cosy about having a pot of tea be made for you. He reminds himself that he is a serious detective, and adds a few sentences to his notebook as he waits.]

[oliverplus]

[thankfully, tea is one of the only things that Oliver can reliably make. this might actually be his second cake of the day--not that he plans to share that]

[he goes back over to the table to take another bite while he waits for the water to boil, and he notices the notebook] [curiously] What are you working on?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Didn't I tell you? I'm investigating the Plane.

[oliverplus]

You--what!? [Oliver stares at him. why would a kid want to do that?] What about the Plane?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Everything about it, of course.

[oliverplus]

[well, that's a wide investigation--which isn't really a surprise, considering this is a kid doing it. Oliver figures maybe he's an aspiring detective] What've you got so far?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Not much -- mostly just what you told me about the black hole and Halloween and the people I met here.

[oliverplus]

[blinks] Oh. Well, let me know if I can help! [he hopes it isn't a mistake to offer that, though. he'd still like to shield the kid from some of the more unsavoury aspects of the Plane]

[in any case, the kettle begins to whistle, and he hurries over to start the tea steeping]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I will! I'm already learning a lot.

[He reads out loud from his notebook.] Food from the kitchen seems to be safe, so long as it's prepared by one of us and they take care.

See?

[oliverplus]

[Oliver can't help cracking a smile at that] Yeah, nice one.

But, uh, I bet the candy thing is over anyway. It could be anything next.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Anything?

[oliverplus]

[Oliver frowns, not wanting to scare the kid] Well, you know. All sorts of weird things happen around here. [he waves a hand]

[he brings two cups of freshly brewed tea to the table, setting one in front of Conan before he sits down with his own] Here you go. How's the cake?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[Again, Conan has the suspicion that Oliver is babysitting him.]

Let's see ... I have the candy, the missing people, age-changing and the death matches ... that's not really indicative?

The cake was good, thank you!

[oliverplus]

[Oliver frowns at that] Somebody talked to you about the death matches? [and Conan is still investigating instead of freaking out? that's surprising]

[but he does smile at the cake comment. he was hoping it had turned out well!] Yeah? Good.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

My friend, Haibara, was caught up in it.

Mm. Oliver-niichan should be popular at parties!

[oliverplus]

[worried] Was she okay?

[but he bursts out laughing at that] I never thought of it that way. I'll have to keep that in mind!

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[Conan shakes his head.] Was Oliver-niichan here when that happened?

[oliverplus]

[Oliver frowns sadly] I'm sorry.

[he nods] Ah, yeah. But that one we did stop ourselves. [it's the only "good" thing he can think of to say about the death matches]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

You stopped it? How? No one told me this part of the story!

[oliverplus]

[surprised] Really? Well, it's a bit of a long story. But we had help from the two men being forced to run the whole thing--and a bunch of us worked together to make it happen!

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

How did you do that?

[oliverplus]

Well... [Oliver frowns thoughtfully] It was a long time ago. But basically, everybody got together and broke the forcefield trapping the people in the death match, and then I used this machine Brax gave me to stop the forcefield from going back up. And the Doctors and I used the King and Weber's--those are the two men I mentioned--cards to send them to some other universe. So it was all over!

[except for the deaths they'd had to suffer as a result of the energy they'd blocked, but that is, once again, something he'd rather not talk about]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

...

[The notebook is out and this is all going down.]

I've not heard of King and Weber before -- they were part of the machine?

[oliverplus]

They worked for it, yeah. But they were from some other universe--and sent somewhere else when we grabbed the cards. That's probably why you haven't heard of them. We only met them for the matches. [he frowns, thinking for a long moment] I don't remember all the details, but we never learned that much. Mostly they warned us about the Four Horsemen, but...we never really found out more.