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Jamie's POV
She hadn't planned on asking him, but sitting here thinking about the their fate wasn't helping either of them. She needed a distraction although to be honest, she was genuinely intrigued.
"It...it was simply a means of studying you in a position of weakness. An experiment shall we say. I was waiting to see if you would try to manipulate me into helping you escape incarceration and so I engaged you.", he answered. There may have been some truth to that, but Jamie could see there was more to it. He was avoiding looking straight at her, which troubled her as she knew Sherlock to be a better bluffer.
Sherlock's POV
The question had caught him off guard. In all honesty, he wasn't sure himself, he could just make something up but Sherlock knew better than to straight up lie. So, instead he had replied in half truths.
Jamie didn't seem convinced and she wasn't the kind that settled, "I didn't though".
It was more of a question than a statement. Sherlock considered ignoring her, he wasn't entirely certain nor comfortable with the direction in which the conversation was headed. But they were stuck together in a confined space indefinitely, he wasn't sure ignoring was a viable option. "No. No you didn't.", he finally answered with a sigh.
So, why continue?" She responded almost immediately.
He was ready this time. "Well, I had hoped to acquire your trust eventually, use it as means of extracting valuable intel, which I presume you possess." That was a flat out lie, one he hoped he had delivered convincingly.
"If so, why not tell Joan until right before we met? Even your Captain looked baffled when you had brought it up in front of him earlier." Jamie asked.
She had him there. Sherlock was in the midst of concocting another brilliant excuse, when they heard the first shot.
