Sapphire sat in her room it was the seventh day of her stay with Mycroft. Day six of her stay was just pure torture for her. Mycroft was joking about the 24 hour a day surveillance, she had a horrible wake up.
A sound in her room made Sapphire stir in her sleep.
Crash.
What the? Sapphire thought, as she woke from her sleep. She opened her to eyes the sunlight, momentary blinded.
Her eyes adjusted to the light and in front of her stood a rather young lad, early twenties, at the end of her bed, scrambling to pick up the lamp he just knocked over. "What are you doing in my room?!" Sapphire roared, she looked around the rest of the room and saw several other guys standing to attention in her room.
"Mr Holmes' orders, Miss Doyle." The young lad said.
"Well I don't care! Get out my room! I need my privacy! Get out!" Sapphire yelled throwing pillows at the men.
The men ducked and swatted away the decorative pillows that flew in their direction. Putting their hands up in defeat, and began to back away towards the door. Sapphire jumped out of bed, grabbing her dressing gown and putting it on over her pyjamas. She walked towards the door, picking up pillows from the floor and throwing them again. They ran out the door, quicker than a flash. Sapphire ran behind them, and slammed the door behind them. She pulled a chest of drawers in front of the door. She got dressed quickly, before pulling the drawers away.
She walked opened the door and screamed into the house, "MYCROFT HOLMES!"
That was only the start of it. Mycroft had come up the stairs, chuckling to himself as he saw the team he assigned to Sapphire standing outside the door, looking rather embarrassed. Sapphire was furious, Mycroft just stood his ground. The pair argued for half an hour before Mycroft walked off, saying he had work to do. And as he left he warned Sapphire that the team were going to continue to carry out their orders.
For the rest of the day, the team followed Sapphire around like a shadow. Slowly they got on Sapphire's nerves, and she soon go to the end of her tether. So by midday Sapphire had locked herself in her room. And sat reading for the rest of the day. The team had made a shift rota between them and sat and watched the door.
The seventh day was just the same. Sapphire went out into the grounds for an hour to get some fresh air and the team carried on following her. Not slipping from their orders. Once again by midday Sapphire had locked herself in her room again. One o'clock came, two, three, four, five o'clock, the hours dragged past.
Seven o'clock came, and Sapphire's mobile began to ring. The first few rings of her phone, Sapphire was oblivious to. She was lost into the world of her book. but eventually the sound of her ringtone registered in her brain. Within seconds she was up and running across the room to grab her phone.
SHERLOCK
Sapphire sighed with relief as she read the caller ID. "Sherlock?"
"Hello, Sapphire." Sherlock's voiced filled the end of the line.
"Gosh I am so glad to hear from you!" Sapphire blurted out into the phone.
"I am guessing Mycroft has dished out a rather big punishment for running off and making him look like a idiot?" Sherlock asked.
"Yes your brother has gone and assigned me a 24 hour surveillance team. So for the last two days and until you get back I have 6 extra shadows." Sapphire complained.
"Ahh... I did warn you Sapphire... But don't worry me and John have just got onto a flight to come home. Case is solved. Finished. So we will hopefully be there to pick you up at about ten tomorrow morning." Sherlock said, rather cheerily down the phone.
Sapphire stopped for a moment taking the information in. Then she stared to celebrate with a small dance around her room. "Yay! Oh thank goodness! If you had been in America much longer, I would have probably become a fugitive!" Sapphire cheered.
Sherlock chuckled at Sapphire's reaction. "Calm down. And turn the volume down otherwise I will go deaf. So could you go and tell Mycroft that we are coming back please and we shall see him tomorrow." Sherlock asked.
"With pleasure! I can't wait to get out of this hell hole." Sapphire chuckled.
"Right okay thank you. So see you tomorrow then. Okay By- Wait John wants a word." Sherlock said, before John's voice filled the end of the line.
"Hi Saff, just a quick word. I have heard some of the things you have done over the past week. And they are wrong. So I dont want behaviour like this when we get back to the flat. But anyway like I promised Sherlock is okay and I managed to get hold of a few presents for you while we were running around." John said, rather sternly but eventually his voice lightened up.
Sherlock butted in the conversation, "John, she is my adopted daughter, I should be telling her how to behave and all that type of things."
John sighed, "But you laughed at when she told you what she done, even though you know it is wrong."
"But it was funny John!" Sherlock protested.
"Okay... okay you two sort this argument out after I have gone. But anyway John, thank you. And I promise I won't misbehave again. I promise. And I am glad you looked after him. Right I need to go and tell Mycroft that I am going home! So i will see you tomorrow! Bye! Tell Sherly bye from me!" Sapphire called down the phone.
"Sherly... Wait what?" John managed before Sapphire cut him off.
Sapphire decided that Sherlock could explain who 'Sherly' was, as she twirled her phone in her hand. Sapphire walked back across her room and opened the door. The two men sat outside, their heads snapped up. "Miss Doyle. Where are you going?" One asked.
"I am going to talk to Mycroft. You don't need to follow me; I am not going anywhere when Sherlock is coming home." Sapphire said.
The men looked at each other and wondering what they should do. Eventually after a few minutes, they nodded at Sapphire and let her go. As she went down the stairs they radioed the other members of the team, so they were alert, just encase.
Sapphire walked downstairs and at first went to Mycroft's office. Knocking on the door before she entered, she waited outside a door, no answer came from inside, so she opened the door slightly, and poked her head around the door and found the office empty.
She walked away from the office closing the door to the office behind her. She walked towards the dinning to see if Mycroft was mulling over some important file at the giant oak table. As she walked past the lounge she noticed a shadowy figure slouched in a chair by the fire. Sapphire walked towards Mycroft, "Mycroft, I need to speak with you."
When Mycroft didn't respond, Sapphire was slightly confused. She walked closer and stopped in front of Mycroft's chair.
In the chair Mycroft was slouched, hugging his umbrella, every few seconds a small snore escaped from his mouth. Sapphire laughed, but quickly covered her mouth, as Mycroft stirred pushing his umbrella against his face, squashing his face slightly. Sapphire froze, standing still and completely silent.
Mycroft didn't wake just snorted once, and snuggled in closer into his umbrella. Sapphire couldn't resist and pulled out her phone and took a photo of the sleeping Mycroft, before putting her phone away. Then she cleared her throat and Mycroft woke with a start. Sitting up quickly, straightening his suit, and placing his umbrella by the side of his chair. "Sapphire... Umm, may I help you? Where are the team?" Mycroft asked looking behind Sapphire for members of his security team.
"I left them upstairs. I am not going to go anywhere! Not when Sherlock is coming to pick me up tomorrow! So thought you should know!" Sapphire chipped.
"What? How do you know this?" Mycroft asked pulling out his phone looking for a message, or missed call from Sherlock.
"He phoned me about 5 minutes ago. So now you know are I am going to go and pack! So byeeee!" Sapphire said, before skipping off.
Mycroft stood up after a few minutes, grabbed his umbrella before going upstairs to bed. Mycroft was glad that Sapphire was leaving but somewhere deep down was already to hate how quiet the house would become again.
A.N:
Yeah well nearly finished this. One more chapter to go. And like I said at the end of the last chapter I finish this for those who follow it. So those who follow this thank you! I really appreiate it and have nearly come to the end. And lets just say, it is not to late for one more little trick. ;)