Jim Moriarty had successfully destroyed the only innocent thing in his life. It sounded cliché, but every time he saw his daughter, the only person he could think of was her mother. Even as she grew up parted permanently from the entire maternal side of the family, everything about her reflected Molly- her gentle brown eyes, her awkward yet endearing personality, her lopsided smile. She did have Jim's strong personality (which he was still working on breaking) and his unique bone structure. Her short hair was almost as dark as his and was very thick and wavy, and in a way, the odd mix of genes had made her uniquely attractive. However, since the day Molly escaped in fear and was forced to leave her child behind, any chance Rosie had at happiness was over in an instant. Jim, along with his partner-in-crime Sebastian Moran, changed her from a happy; friendly child to a scared; quiet and socially anxious teenager. She crept round the house on her tip-toes; afraid to awake the wrath of her father for some small and usually imagined crime, flinching at every sudden movement or noise and desperately trying to hide the red marks and bruises that covered her body. In public, Rosie could barely even make eye contact with anyone and had failed to socialise, even whilst in primary school. She was, in every sense of the word, broken.
It wasn't until she was reading one of her father's newspapers one day that she finally felt a spark of hope. There, featured in the headlines, was Sherlock Holmes, a so-called "consulting detective", and alongside his name there were two others: John Watson and Molly hooper. Her mother. There was a photo too, of the three of them standing together in the morgue. Tears dripped down onto the paper as she cried over the first photo of her mother she had ever seen. A link to Sherlock's blog had been left at the bottom of the article, and Rosie knew that this was it. She was going to escape.
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