"Sherlock, I don't wanna look for clues," Lizzie whined, hanging onto the bannister as Sherlock attempted to tug her out the door.
"Aren't you even remotely interested into who broke into the building and left a hand in your fridge?" Sherlock huffed, refusing to release her sleeve. They proceeded to engage in a stare-down, and Lizzy was slowly getting more and more frustrated.
"Um… What's going on?"
Both Sherlock's and LIzzie's heads whipped towards the door, staring accusingly at a very bewildered John Watson.
"Am I interrupting something?" John asked warily.
"Thank God, John! Make Sherlock leave me alone!" Lizzie plead.
"Sherlock, let the poor girl go. What's gotten into you?" John ordered, already looking exasperated.
"There was a break-in while you were away. The murderer was in the premises and left a hand in Ms. Naevee's fridge," Sherlock explained airily. "I was merely attempting to investigate."
"And why were you trying to drag poor Lizzie out the door?"
Sherlock snorted. "Poor Lizzie?"
John rolled his eyes. "Just answer the question, Sherlock," he muttered exasperatedly.
"I merely… needed an assistant…" Sherlock muttered.
"Well, I'm back, so you can let her go now." John shook his head and picked up his bag, marching by the pair and up the stairs.
Lizzy and Sherlock eyed each other suspiciously.
"You heard him, let me go," Lizzie said smugly.
"John's not the boss of me," Sherlock said petulantly.
"Okay, let me go or I'll hurt you," Lizzie said sweetly, smiling innocently up at the consulting detective.
Sherlock reluctantly released her, and Lizzie could practically feel his glare as she marched down the steps to her flat.
"Honestly, he's such a baby," she muttered to the doorknob.
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"I honestly don't know how you put up with him. I feel bad for you… Ohhh you should come live with me… He'll probably think Mrs. Hudson hid you again…" Lizze paused and sniggered down at the skull in her hands. "You're my new best friend!"
"Sherlock might kill you if he sees you with that… he's been searching for it for days," John said from her couch. He had taken refuge there about an hour previous, when Sherlock had gone on full rampage mode.
Lizzie shrugged nonchalantly. "I'll kill him first." John sniggered.
"JOHN, MY THEORY IS CORRECT!" Lizzie's flat door flew open and Sherlock appeared, looking very excited.
"The killer is targeting people I have come into contact with! Lestrade's just been attacked and we can-"
"Hold on, Lestrade's been attacked?" John yelped, leaping up from the couch. "Is-"
"Oh, he's fine, probably a bit of a cut, but I'm pretty sure he's alive," Sherlock said, waving his hand dismissively.
"Pretty sure?" John hissed, flapping his arms about.
"Mostly positive! That's not what matters! What I'm trying to say, is that you're most likely the next target," Sherlock babbled, now attempting to drag John out the door.
"I'm not going anywhere till you explain yourself,"" John growled. yanking his arm out of Sherlock's grasp.
"Yeah!" Lizzie piped up from her chair.
Sherlock's eyebrows furrowed. "Is that my skull?"
Lizzie stuck out her tongue. "He's living with me now."
"Sherlock!"
"Alright, alright," Sherlock snapped. "A few days ago, when Miss Naevee and myself were at the morgue, I thought I recognized the face of the victim. I looked at the pictures of the previous faces, and once again they looked familiar. It turns out I was correct, the first victims were merely people I had bumped into on the street. The one Miss Naevee and I examined I had spoken words with, as he had been under the impression I shoved him. or some nonsense like that… The killer has made an unusually large jump in victims though, having attacked Lestrade. This is leading me to believe he has an end goal or victim to reach, and is either running out of time or getting bored… Normally I would assume Miss Naevee to be the next victim, but from this jump I'm guessing he'll probably go after you next. Are you happy now?"
John rolled his eyes.
"Um… I'm not?!" Lizzie squeaked.
Sherlock sighed. "I'm sure you'll be fine, didin't you hear me? He's probably going to go after John next. Now we need to go question Lestrade. He might have seen something useful for once."
"What if you're wrong? Can't I come with you?" Lizzie asked, her eyes wide and face pale.
"No, you can't. Three's a crowed. You have a machete, do you not?" Sherlock smirked. "Use it."
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"Don't lose your head, don't lose your head… figuratively or literally, don't lose your head," Lizzie muttered to herself, clutching onto her machete and hunching over on her couch. "This isn't helping… I can't believe that idiot actually left me here…"
"I'll bet. How 'bout you come with me instead?"
Everything went black.
A/N: I know I know… short chapter D: Guys, tell me honestly, is the mystery interesting at all…. really? Is Sherlock in character? Is John? Is it interesting? How many of you have stopped reading at this point because it's predictable (I feel like it's moving too fast almost and is rather boring…) Before you guys start saying- "BUT SHERLOCK WOULD HAVE KNOWN SHE WAS NEXT" just wait… patience…
I'm really gonna try and finish this fic quicker XD partly because it's a little neglected, partly because I really want to write a Supernatural fic, but I'm in the middle of too much stuff heheh…
Anyways... Christmas is almost upon us! Who's excited! XD I'm hoping to get some money to put towards a shiny new 3DS XL ;)
Thank you to;
KiyaNamiel- XD I'm glad you like her… Wait… O_o I didn't even realize those were stereotypical traits… That was part of her character lol… Partly because I love food too death so I thought 'She can love food too' LOL a lot of people probably would XD Happy late Thanksgiving/early Merry Christmas!
TwilinOfTheWIllows- Heheheheh XD
BeamMeUpScotty25- MUAHAHHAHAHA! Thank you :3
bored411- Sherlock will definitely have his revenge (probably once he's gotten out of 'triple homicide' mode)
ShadowSpade- True dat.
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Noxy the Proxy- No he did, he just… ahem… kept it to himself… for science XD
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