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I sat up in bed with cold sweat trickling down my back. I had another nightmare, another flashback to when my parents had died. I pulled a robe over my shoulders and slipped out the door. I crept toward Angie's room; I dropped down to my knees and looked through the keyhole. She was still there sleeping peacefully.
"Miss Holmes?" questioned a voice behind me.
I jumped up and spun around, Mina was standing there. I must have in my panic rushed right by her. "You startled me."
"I'm terribly sorry. You seem a little flushed, is everything alright?"
I shifted my weight from foot to foot. "I had a nightmare, about when my parents died."
"From what the newspapers said I understand that they were killed in a fire."
"Set by one of Moriarty's henchmen," I nodded. "Angie and I were lucky to have made it out alive."
"Angie almost didn't survive?" Mina guessed. "What happened?"
I gestured her into my room and shut the door. I fumbled for a moment with the light switch, I didn't need to use it but is would have been rude to leave my guest sitting in the dark.
"When our uncle left England to avoid Moriarty no one knew where he was going. Moriarty was a mastermind at physiological attacks; he decided to kill our uncle's family before he killed him. He sent one of his most loyal henchmen to finish us off.
"Angie was ten I was twelve, we were asleep. I woke up because I smelled smoke, I ran into my parents' room, they told me to get Angie and run. I grabbed my music box and tried to get Angie out without panicking her. As we were leaving a beam fell and struck my head, I was knocked unconscious. Angie had never used her powers before that point however when the firemen arrived they found two girls in a ring where the fire had not touched.
"The doctors said that the beam had jarred my optic nerve, Angie was treated for severe smoke inhalation. Our parents had been shot with an air gun and died in the house. Mrs. Hudson set us up in the rooms above our uncle's apartment. A week later we received a letter from Dr. Watson saying that our uncle was dead. Mrs. Hudson decided that we would have to live there until one of us came of age.
"Two weeks later we got a letter from our uncle addressed to our father, he hadn't heard. The letter asked that all of his possessions be kept the same until the time of his return; he also requested that we not to reveal that he was alive. Angie and I knew that if he returned to London he would be killed by Moriarty's men; and if he knew we were alone he would be back within a week or two. Angie and I wrote a short note in our fathers hand and told him that all was in control."
"How did you tell him when he returned?" Mina asked.
"We just told him, there was no way to make it easier. However that night he caught the person responsible and didn't even try to prosecute him on that, only on the murder of Ronald Adair."
"What happened to the music box?" Mina asked.
I walked over to the dresser, lifted the delicate porcelain box in my hands, and handed it to Mina. "It doesn't open," I explained. "It's locked and I forgot the key."
"Then why keep it?"
"Memories I guess."
Mina rose from her seat. "Thank you Miss Holmes for a most enlightening evening and now I feel it is my duty to enlighten you. Did you know that there is a simple procedure that could return your sight?"
"I knew."
Mina seemed surprised. "Then why don't you…"
"My second sight is nonexistent with regular sight," I explained.
"So for you this is not a handicap?"
"I suppose it could be considered one however I look on it as a means to an end."
Mina smiled. "I understand, however I have one last question. When was the last time you ever indulged your self, did something just for you? I saw why you stayed in the shop, to let Angie go with Sawyer. You do that a lot, I can tell. However I can also tell the Mr. Skinner likes you, perhaps you should talk to him more." She left the room.
At her words a cold fist of fear crushed my abdomen. I was afraid of leaving Angie on her own until I was certain that she could be provided for, I didn't want to lose her too. Angie had suffered infatuation after infatuation, and I had promised myself I would be there for her always.
Perhaps Mina was mistaken; I thought about it for a moment and decided that was unlikely. He had stayed after all, to keep me company. I would have to try and avoid him. It seemed like the only way to go at that point. Angie was my only family,I had to protect her.
AN: hey people tell me what you think R&R and all that jazz. Angie plushies for all the reviewers (in case you are wondering she looks like Christina Richi)
Samyo: well i read the book and decided that in keeping with the spirit of the movie to put him inhere for a few chapters
hornofgondor2: giggle plushies are fun and unlike the real things if you throw them agianst the wall they dont yell...
Phantom of Les Miserables: first off love the pen name, and dont worry we should start seeing signs ofErik by next chapter
StriderX: Angie andI both wanted to thank you for that compliment. Did you guys play in the creek? That's what I do when hanging with my cousins. now that you have the entire setof official leauge plushiesyou get one of Angie!