p style="text-align: left;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongChapter Three: The Raven Haired Stranger/strong /spanbr /They walked through the park slowly looking around carefully. There were people running or jogging. There were serious looking business people having lunch sat awkwardly next to someone on a bench. John could see students studying on the grass and people listening to music, but he couldn't see anyone who looked suspicous. They walked for five minutes when Sherlock stop. br /"Look over there John, by the large oak tree." John looked where Sherlock described. There was a young man, maybe early twenties, with raven black hair and pale skin. He was wearing a loose fitting brown jacket, black jeans and white trainers and some sort of neckchief. The man didn't seem to notice John and Sherlock looking at him and turned his back to them, he didn't seem to be doing anything 'shifty'. Sherlock started to make his way over there and John quickly /The young man started to walk away and out of the park with Sherlock and John following behind him. The young man turned left out of the park and carried on down the street. Sherlock and John followed him for a while longer when Sherlock made a turn down a different Of course he knows where the kid's going./em John scastically thought to himself when he realised that Sherlock was taking a shortcut. Sherlock had done this before on the first case they had worked on together. Sherlock deduced where a taxi was going and took a shortcut to cut it off. That little chase fixed John's limp and helped Sherlock figure out the case, even if it took him a small while to fit the taxi into the puzzle. The street they took led them to another place where some of the homeless network liked to go, however there were only about six or seven people here. John could tell that they recognised Sherlock, so they were clearly working for him. Sherlock gave them a small shake of his head to tell them not to reveal where he was stood. A couple of minutes later the young man walked over to the small group. br /"Hello. Would you mind if I sat with you?" The young man asked the small group. His voice wasn't really deep or really high pitched, emsounds like he should have just left uni,/em and he had an english accent, telling John that he was almost definitely in his early twenties and that he was english. br /"Nah, pull up a seat." Replied one of the people sat around a make do /"So, haven't seen you before love. Are you new to the streets?" A woman asked the young man. He sat down and looked at her, his eyes seemed sad and he smiled at /"No been on the streets a few years, quite a few actually. I like to move around so that the cops leave me alone, haven't always been in London though." The man /"How'd you end up here then?" A different woman asked. br /"A lot of walking and trains, got caught without a ticket about twelve times before I got to London. I thought it would be too risky to continue for a while so I'm staying around London for a bit." The young man explained. Sherlock had clearly heard enough because he stepped out from the shadows and walked quietly towards the man. The man must have heard Sherlock and John walking up behind him because he turned around. John had never seen Sherlock look so shocked before./p