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November 2001

Lestrade and Sherlock was sitting in a café, drinking tea and coffee. And of course looking trough old case files. The only reason they were sitting there and not in Lestrade's flat, was that Alice was there, and as she and Sherlock didn't work out very well together, Lestrade thought it was best to not risk anything by letting them be in the same room at the same time.

The last time he had tried that had started pretty good, if you were thinking about who were talking about. Sherlock actually wasn't to blame. He hadn't insulted any of them, in the beginning. Like ha said, it had started good. They ate, and Sherlock even told Alice that her cocking was good. Even if he only did so because of the looks he got from Lestrade.

Then she had asked the question, that completely ruined the evening. Well it hasn't been completely her fault. She hadn't known all the facts. Lestrade hadn't wanted to tell her them, and he didn't feel that he needed to, after all, she and Sherlock hated each other.

"So Sherlock..."She said "What are your parent's doing?"

"I don't know." Sherlock had answered in a bored voice."Don't care."

"You don't know what your parents are doing for a living?"

"No, but I could give it a fair guess. My mother... Well... She's probably at some nightclub right now, looking for someone to follow home. If she haven't overdosed on some drug. As for my father... In prison maybe... Wouldn't surprise me... Or maybe he has finally drunken himself to death. I couldn't care less."

Sherlock had spoken fast, like he always did. Alice was staring at him, and first Lestrade thought that she hadn't heard what Sherlock said, but then she reached right across the table and slapped him right over the face. Sherlock seemed to have seen it coming, because he didn't look surprised. He only brought his hand up to his stinging cheek. But Lestrade was surprised, he hadn't thought that Alice would be happy about the answer she got from Sherlock, but he hadn't expected her to actually hit him.

"You are an awful human being, you know that?" She screamed."How can you speak that way about your parents? Who have done nothing but sacrificing themselves for you? How can you not care? But I would understand if your father have become a drunk, if he has you for a son!"

"Alice! Don-" Lestrade began but Sherlock cut him of.

"For the first, I speak the way I want about my parents. And you know what? They haven't done anything for me but destroying my life. My mother left me and Mycroft in that rotten place with father. And he didn't love us, he didn't sacrifice anything. He hated us. He beat Mycroft, every single day! He had started beating me too." Sherlock spoke fast, with a calm voice, but Lestrade could hear that he was upset. "Then... he threw us out. In the middle of the winter. With nothing but the clothes we wore and mother's old violin, that Mycroft stole from his room. And maybe I am a awful human being, and maybe it was me that was the reason for father's drinking problems. But I don't care, he was never a father to me. I have never haven a father. Not until-"

Phone started ringing, and Sherlock was cut of. They sat in silence an just stared at each other. Then Sherlock suddenly got up, he grabbed his coat, and then he stormed out from the room. Right before he ran out the front door he turned around and spoke directly at Alice.

"Maybe you understand Mrs Lestrade..." He said with an ice cold voice. "After all, your father was an abusive drunk too, wasn't he?"

The sympathy that had been in Alice's eyes disappeared. Her eyes overflowed in tears, and then she had run up to their bedroom.

Sherlock left the flat, and left in the kitchen was Lestrade, knowing two secrets he really hadn't wanted to know.

A/N: It is a pretty short chapter again, but I am planing on doing a longer for Christmas. With Sherlock and Lestrade, and maybe Alice and Mycroft celebrating Christmas together! If you have any ideas for Christmas gifts, you're free to write and tell me about them. Lestrade's gift to Sherlock I already know, but the others I have no idea about. And if you have any other ideas I would be happy to hear about them. Whether it is about the next chapter or something else. Please review!