Family Secrets
An Hope Holmes Adventure Chapter XXXVI
Faith Robin
"Quite so," My father said with disgust tying the rag around his eyes. Dawson came and took my father out of the room. Moriarty went out and called out after him "Remember, I still have your daughter so do not attempt anything, and please inform Miss Granger that I'm absolutely furious with her and if I ever see her again I will personally end her life!"
Dr. Watson and Mycroft sat in the living room, listening to Granger as she finished her tale. "Her plan was for us to switch places and while I was here acting in her place she would go and find her father acting as me. She knew if I was in your hands then you would not look for her." Granger said finishing her tale. 'I hope that they believe me and they'll help me get her back,' Granger thought to herself.
"I told you that she wasn't going to be that careless," Dr. Watson said to a very disappointed Mycroft.
"I will not underestimate her again, Miss Granger, do you happen to know where she was going to be conducting her search?" Mycroft asked. Before she could answer, the door opened and a black haired man walked into the room.
"HOLMES!" Watson said in disbelief.
"Good heavens Sherlock! Where have you been?" Mycroft demanded of his younger brother.
Granger felt like she was going to faint. 'So this is the Great Sherlock Holmes. My father's greatest enemy and here I am trying to help his daughter…' She thought to herself feeling her heart fill with guilt. 'I am not proud of what my father did and I will not beat myself up over this.' She thought defying her loyalty to the father of whom she had hardly any memory of.
"Moriarty has Hope," Sherlock said hoarsely ignoring her as Watson forced him to sit. "He will not let her go unless I agree to his demands."
"What are his demands?" Mycroft asked concerned for the well being of his brother and his only niece.
"He wants me to renounce my earlier claims about his brother in a suicide note," Holmes said burying his head in his hands.
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