So second part guys! Enjoy!

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The Investigation Of The Voice

Working for a week at New Scotland Yard was found to be interesting, but Beth felt it lacked the excitement that she thought she would encounter. There were no crime investigation jobs or exciting new assignments she was given. It was nothing but taking calls, typing the information into the computer, locating callers destinations and faxing the information to the investigators. She wasn't going to complain because in the end, a job was a job and as long as she had her wages, she wasn't bothered what she had to do.

On the Friday morning during her first week, she had heard rumours that someone had attempted to steal the crown jewels, break into the vault at the Bank of England and break out inmates at the Pentonville Prison. A lot of commotion occurred through out Scotland Yard, many colleagues saying that it was a terrorist attack. But Beth knew that not even terrorists are capable of breaking into places like a vault.

Detective Sergeant Sally Donovan, a woman Beth had grown to dislike during her time at her new job, rushed into the office of the many IT Technicians, asking for someone to come and investigate the security footage of the recent crime that had occurred. Immediately Beth stood up nervously but with determination to prove herself. Her boss nodded.

"Fine, you can go Beth. Show us what you can do,"

"Thank you sir," Quickly, she grabbed her macbook and her coat, then walked over to Sally Donovan who then led her out the building to the police car. On the way to the Tower Of London, Beth couldn't quite get over that she was within a police car as an investigator, NOT as someone who had been arrested. Quite frankly, Beth was enjoying the experience. As they drove by London's strenuous city life, she couldn't help but notice how no one seemed to be bothered that police cars were wondering around. When she lived in Cambridge, many people stared at police cars wondering who was inside or where they were off to.

The purring of the car stopped as Donovan turned the car engine off. The entrance to the Tower Of London was closed off with crime scene investigation tape to stop tourists from entering. Police Officers were outside either writing notes in investigation forms or just simply guarding the area. One Police man lifted the tape to allow both women into the investigation site, and Beth was led inside. Inside was no longer bustling with tourists, but now bustling with detectives and police officers. She was led further in, where she saw a man with grey hair standing outside the security room, waiting.

"Ah you must be the new IT technician, I don't believe I've met you yet. I am Detective Inspector Lestrade," the Detective held out his hand towards Beth who, with no hesitation, took it and shook his hand.

"It's a pleasure to be given the opportunity to show my boss what I can do," She smiled and walked into the security room. Once inside, she saw the screens that surveyed all the different locations within the tourist attraction. On one of the screens was the crown jewels which had been broken into. Glass shards were all over the floor around the crown jewels and the crown itself was no longer on the chair.

"All we ask of you is to see if you can figure out how he shut down all the security cameras," with a nod, Beth began looking into the data of the security camera. Lestrade stood behind, watching her work her magic as she swiftly looked through the data, but eventually broke the silence as he asked her if she wanted a hot drink. With a nod and a thank you from Beth, he went into the kitchen, leaving Beth alone to carry on with her work.

A minute or two had gone, and Lestrade had not yet returned. But the door opened and two men walked in. Beth looked at the men who came into the room and immediately recognised the curly dark brown hair and the sky blue eyes that she had grown up with. Her own eyes widened and she looked at the screens of the cameras. Frozen, she hardly noticed that the curly haired man had spoken to her.

"Hello? Can you please show me the footage before Moriarty broke into the glass box?"

"Huh? Oh yeah," she was dumbstruck. She would have never of thought that she would meet him at a crime investigation scene. Out of all places. She re-winded the footage to the moment when the criminal had walked into the room of the crown jewels, and even though she was seemingly looking at the screen, she wasn't actually paying attention as she could only think of Sherlock. Many thoughts ran through her head like:

He is here! We can be friends again!

But what if he is mad at me? I mean I did leave a day before his birthday...

I hadn't heard from him in 20 years.

Oh god he's going to hate me!

"Zoom in onto his phone," Sherlock demanded, his voice was so casual but held a very dominant tone that made her realise that he was not one to be messing around with. She did as he said but when she had finally zoomed in, she saw that the image was pixelated and that it was impossible to make out what was upon the phone screen.

"If only we could see what was on the phone," the other man sighed, followed by Sherlock's grunt. Beth then had a brilliant idea that she thought would no doubt impress her boss. Without turning her head so that Sherlock could see her, she spoke.

"How about I enhance it on my laptop?"

"Can you do that?" asked Sherlock's partner, but without replying, she began to hook up her macbook to the security computer. Once it was connected, she took the data from the security computer and used her IT intelligence to enhance the image to make the phone clear enough to see what was upon it. All the while, Sherlock was staring at Beth, curious as to why he recognised her. Her voice seemed very familiar to him, but he couldn't put a finger on it.

"Here," she had finally finished enhancing the image, and the image was almost as sharp as the eye could see. Sherlock walked over to the laptop and knelt down to look at the image. He saw that the phone had a crown upon it, and with a frown he sighed.

"A crown, interesting," he looked towards Beth, hoping to notice who she was, but even when he looked at her face, he still couldn't place it. Beth tried not to make eye contact with Sherlock so she looked at the image on her macbook then began making notes on what she has discovered. She could feel Sherlock's stare which made her extremely uncomfortable. In a way, she wanted him to recognise her, but she was afraid of his reaction.

"Sherlock, are we done?" the man asked Sherlock, who in response, stood up and nodded. The man thanked Beth but Sherlock left without saying a word. Soon as she was free from his stare, she sighed in utter relief. She printed out the enhanced image of the phone before disconnecting the macbook from the computer. Lestrade came back and handed her the cup of coffee which she took a small sip of.

"So what have we found?" he said. Beth pointed to the printed image that remained on the printer. Lestrade walked over and looked at the image, his eyebrows furrowed in the process. Clearly he did not make any sense of it but Sherlock certainly did.

"This is certainly interesting, but I don't see how this would shut down the security cameras. We would have to see what Sherlock thinks of it,"

"I'm sure he would figure it out,"

Finally, when all the paper work and the investigation was done, Beth was allowed to go home. She was glad that she had been allowed to be the one to investigate the crime scene footage, due to being able to show what she is capable of and, of course, because she got to meet Sherlock after so long. Yet she felt that meeting him was going to be a bad thing, lucky for her, he didn't recognise her.


Hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I hope you do too Beth ;) finally got to meet Sherlock and John!