Chapter 3: Below
John and the Mayor went inside an elevator and Barrymore pushed the button for the bottom floor. They were silent for the short journey down that only took a few seconds but for John it felt like ages and this silent could only mean trouble. When the elevator stopped they walked out into something that looked like a common room, like the one people wait in when they are at the hospital except this room looked a little warmer and friendlier. As if people actually were living down here. Which John knew it did. They continued down a corridor that John remembered leading to a meeting room with an oval table and a whiteboard. He had only been in that room twice. It was where the scientists normally had their meetings. Barrymore opened the door and gestured to him to get in. John entered the room and saw that five people were gathered inside, all in white coats. John recognised three of them. It was Doctor Laura Smith who was the leader of the experiment that first noticed that he had entered.
"John!" She exclaimed in surprise. "What are you doing here?"
"I found him and a friend to him breaking in to our base under a false identity." Mayor Barrymore informed her.
"Why would you do that John, you could just have used your key?" Laura turned from Barrymore to John. And how would I have explained that to Sherlock John thought to himself, how am I going to explain this.
"My friend is investigating the case of the beast that killed Henry Knight's father twenty years ago." Laura shook her head and looked at John with sorrow in her eyes.
"I can surely say that no beast from Baskerville would have been out there for twenty years ago…" Her voice trailed off and she went silent. John could see that there was something more she wanted to say.
"But?" He asked her. Laura took a deep breath before she continued.
"There is one now."
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