"We need to talk about this in person." John said.

"Alright, meet me at the coffee shop in thirty minutes." Lestrade said, "I've got to get Sherlock started on the cold case I promised him first."

"Cold case? He can solve those in fifteen minutes!" John said.

"Which is exactly why I'm giving him 36 of them." Lestrade said. "You know his work calms him down. Anyway, he's walking in the door, I've got to go. See you soon."

Lestrade set the phone down and pretended to be doing paper work as Sherlock walked into his office.

"Lestrade?" Sherlock said.

"Just a second Sherlock, let me finish this..." Lestrade scribbled in his report of what happened, loosly describing what happened at the scene of the crime. He was also making sure Sherlock bought the idea that he had been doing paper work the whole time. As far as he could tell, Sherlock seemed to.

"And... ready." Lestrade said, after signing his name at the bottom of the page.

Lestrade dug through his bottom drawer. "I found these earlier. They're the more interesting of the cold cases." Lestrade said, "Or at least of my opinion." Lestrade sat the stack of manilla folders. "There's 36 cases here... so that'd buy you at least... 2 hours, maybe 3?"

Sherlock looked through the first folder. "2 1/2 hours if they're all like this one in difficulty." He said, "Good guess Greg." Lestrade's eyes nearly bugged. Sherlock just called him by his first name. And Sherlock had gotten it right.

"Well, I know I don't have to tell you where everything is, so you've pretty well got free range." Lestrade said, "Just try not to irritate my officers too much."

"I'll endeavor not to." Sherlock said.

"Well, I need to get going." Lestrade said. "I've got to me with someone. Just uh- write down the answers in my note book and I'll get them to the chief. Thanks mate."

Lestrade walked out the door of his office to meet John.


A/N: Sorry for the super short chapter! I'll try to make the future ones longer, but the next one after this might be a little short as well. No guesses on how Sherlock deduced the murders in the last one?! My, my, I am disappointed. I guess no one will know how he deduced it until I get some guesses...