SHERLOCK POV.
She wore tweed high waisted shorts a shirt and blazer with brogue effect heeled shoes, her blonde hair was up in a messy bun and she wore large framed glasses, her eyes, they were such a deep blue, but they were so defined, I racked my brains where have I seen those eyes before? But I was skirting round the answer, I didn't want to tell myself, remind myself of her. Janey. She had Janey's eyes.
"Mr. Holmes?"
"Yes?"
"That's the girl who said she was Mr. Henderson's girlfriend" Millya interjected
"Oh I'm not by the way, I was just with your friendly detective Lestrade? And he pointed at you through the window, I needed to speak with you
Sherlock, you don't mind if I call you Sherlock do you?"
"Oh well I do a bit"
"Well, tough luck Sherlock, I know too much about you to call you Mr. Holmes, it feels wrong"
"Ha! What do you know about me?" I scoffed
"Well I know you're a consulting detective, you live with John at 221b Baker Street, you have been investigating Mrs. Henderson's murder for the last
week and that this morning you had her husband arrested"
"So you've been stalking me"
"I also know that you worked with, slept with and killed my big sister"
I pulled her away from john and Millya and over to the sofa by the doors
"That's an incredibly stupid thing to say in a police station"
"Well I needed you to know that you could trust me"
"And can I?"
"I'm standing here conversing happily with the man that killed my sister, if that's not trust then I don't know what is" she whispered
"Talking about that, how did you know I killed her"
"She told me, well she told me she was going to ask you to kill her and after she was found dead six months ago I could only assume that you did"
"Well I couldn't say no could I?"
"Precisely, now can I please talk to you about what I came here to talk to you about?"
"Yes but not here" I spun round
"John take Millya home or whatever I'll see you later, come on lets go"
I walked her out and round the corner to a cafe
"So I never caught your name?" I asked her
"Sorry I'm Chloe Jones"
"Ahh! Your baby Chloe! Sorry I had forgotten that Janey had a sister"
"And a brother, don't forget Alecs"
"Hold on, Alecs Jones? Spelt cs not x?"
"Yeah that's the one"
"Works for MI6?"
"Umm yeah? Do you know him?"
"Well I know an Alecs Jones who works at MI6 but I didn't know Janey's brother was Alecs Jones who works at MI6"
"Oh yeah, my big brother Ally he loves it there"
"You're a bit of a top family aren't you? Janey worked for the PM, Alecs for MI6 and you?"
"I work for the PM too, well indirectly, I'm his Eastern Europe PA"
"Which is?"
"I work with the ambassadors in the UK from various countries in Eastern Europe, I work with our ambassadors there and accompany the PM when he
visits those countries"
"You must be very busy, there's a lot of countries in Eastern Europe!"
"Yeah but what do I really have to do? If there's a problem their ambassador in the UK consults me, or our ambassador over there consults me, and I
just pass them through to whoever is best to handle the problem, and I get free holidays to some of the most beautiful places on the planet, and there
aren't that many countries in eastern Europe!"
"What is it, 14?"
"22 actually, we use the EU's divisions not the UNs"
"Oh, but still 22 countries?!"
"It's not that bad, when I tell people that its 22 languages that usually gets them"
"22 languages! What are you a machine?!"
"Coming from the most amazing detective in the world! I'm Flattered!"
"You're flattered! I'm impressed!"
"Ha-ha, you've seriously relaxed since I told you I was Janey's baby sister"
"Well, I know I can trust you don't I?"
"Yes yes you do" she smiled at me
"Right Sherlock down to business, I'm off to Cyprus tomorrow so I thought it best to do this now before I go away, about a month ago I found this
parcel in a drawer at my office" she pulled out a padded envelope from her bag
"It was addressed to you so I haven't opened it"
"That's Janey's handwriting"
"Yes it is, there was another envelope with it addressed to me"
She took another envelope from her bag and started to read it
"Dear baby C
One day you will meet the illusive amazing and beautiful man that goes by the name of Sherlock Holmes, when this day comes, I will have been dead
for a while and it will have been him who killed me, don't worry, you'll know why, anyway one day you will hear of him, he will crop up in a conversation
at some point and when that day comes you must find him and give him this envelope, don't go searching for him now, wait until someone tells you
about him, why? Because if he's working then he's stopped wallowing and is over me and believe me sis he needs to be over me to deal with what's in
the envelope, so when you see him ask him if he is, if not get up and never look back, he won't wonder or follow you he'll just carry on then go back at
another time a few months later and ask again, give him the envelope but tell him to look at the note I left him again before he opens it, and he'll know
why, tell him I love him and that I want him to keep an eye on my baby sister and make sure that she's ok now he knows who she is!
All my love and wishes for your future Babe,
JJ xxx
(PS. I hope you had the foresight to read this note aloud to him!)
I laughed I didn't mean to, but it was so nice to hear Janey's sarcastic ways again, and Chloe's voice was just uncanny for her sisters, it was like she
was back in the room with me
"So" she started
"Are you over her?"
I sighed heavily
"Yes" I said shortly
"You sure?"
"Yes" I repeated
"Sure you're sure?"
"Yes!" I made a leap forward for the envelope but she held it back from me
"Give me the envelope Chloe"
"Say please"
"Please"
She hands the envelope over with a laugh
I went to open it
"Whoa! She said to wait, read the note she left you first!"
"Which note?"
"The note she left in the bottom of pot with the teabags in"
"How the heck did you know that?"
"Oh she told me that"
"When she saw me the day before she died, she said that she was going to speak to you but to help you cope she left you a note in The place that no
true English man should ever see"
"Where's that?"
"The bottom of the pot that you keep teabags in! If you can see the bottom it means you have no tea left! And that's a very bad thing"
"Oh right well I think you'll have to give me some lessons in being and Englishman then"
She laughed
"But seriously, she said that you had to look after me, I might be 22 but I've lost my sister, I lost my dad 3 years ago and my mum when I was 4 so I do
need a bit of looking after" she laughed again
"So how much older was Janey than you?"
"Five years, well 4 years and 360 days, ha-ha she always seemed a lot older though I suppose if you lose your mum at eight, it do's cause you to grow
up a little bit, Alecs was 9 but he didn't really know anything back then so Janey took charge, she was great, I mean we had are arguments but
everyone argues especially sisters, but she left when she was 16 to come to into the city she was so intelligent, they let her into university early and
she moved down here Alecs was already at MI6 literally only just but he wasn't at home anymore, luckily my stepmum was there a bit and we met up
often"
"I didn't know your dad married again?"
"Oh no he didn't but when mum died this lady walked into our lives and she was just company for dad or at least that's what we were told, I now know
that dad paid for her but that's by the by, we saw her as a mother figure and although she wasn't always there physically she was always at the end
of a phone"
"Well it's good to have a role model when you're so young"
"Yeah she was just a shame that it's been nearly 2 years since we last spoke, I tried to find her to tell her that Janey had died but I don't know her real
name so I couldn't find her"
"What did you call her"
"Aunt Renee, but of course she's not my aunt and I don't think Renee was her real name"
"It's a shame"
"Yes it is, but no I've got the almost brother in law Sherlock"
"Almost brother in law?"
"Yeah almost, you never married and you couldn't anyway cause she's dead"
"You say that almost to easily"
"People die Sherlock you just have to move on, I know its brash but if I was miserable thinking about how life cheated me of a mother, stole my father
from me and made my sister's man kill her, then I would be a suicidal wreck, and then where would that leave things, I'll tell you what it would leave,
my brother sibling less and orphaned and that's not going to happen, he's dying first we've agreed"
"Oh have you"
We laughed together, I thought about how childish that last sentence was but just how grown up the whole conversation had been it was weird, like a
child was acting the adult because there was no one else left to do it
"Right I'd better be off, need to go back to the office before I leave for Cyprus tomorrow"
"Ahh business trip" I stand up
"No my boyfriends in the air force and is out there at the moment, but its Eurovision tomorrow night so he's sneaking off base to come and watch it with
me"
"Oh and there was me thinking that you were sane"
"Well let's hope you can find that out properly next time we meet"
"Would you like to see me again"
"Yeah I'd really like to get to know you Sherlock, by myself this time, not just what I've been told"
"Ok well take my number and when you fancy a chat just let me know"
I held out a card
"If convenient call me"
She turned it over
"If inconvenient text"
She laughed
"Very good Mr. Holmes, I like that" she smiled at me
"Goodbye Sherlock" she gave me a hug and kissed me gently on the cheek
"Goodbye Chloe, pleasure to meet you"
She walked out the door and hailed a cab, as she got in she waved at me but she had gone before I could wave back.