Odd happenings Chapter 4

Sherlock's p.o.v

When I finally got out and just haled for a taxi to go to the lab, I got a message from Lestrade saying we've got something you might be interested in.

So when I got in the taxi I said to the driver "can you take me to Scotland yard?"

To which he looked into his mirror as he replied "sure" in a deep, rough voice, then drove on to the police station where Lestrade waited for me.

When I got to the police station the driver asked me for £10 so I Payed him, then got out and went straight to Lestrade.

When I got to Lestrade's office, I walked straight in, over to where Lestrade was sitting and said "what's the case?"

He then leaned over, picked up a piece of paper and handed it to me. While he did he said "there seems to be someone going around killing men in their late 30's. They all had different deaths, one died from poisoning, the second one died from a stabbing and the third one died from a hit and run."

I interrupted him for a moment as I put the piece of paper down on his desk, walked back over to the door and said "No, No, No Lestrade I want something really interesting. Something that'll grip me, that's boring".

Lestrade looked at me like he was fed up as he took a deep breath, puffed it out and said "yeah well it's a crime and it has to be solved, so will you stop being so disrespectful? And let me finish for once, I was actually just about to get to the main part. All three of them were found to have an envelope on them, inside the envelope was a letter that reads. 'My tears are your tears; my fears are your fears. What I want you will do. So play safely and you will live. That was along with a pink feather and a blonde strand of hair."

I looked at him in shock, clasping my hands together and putting them under my chin so that I could think for a moment, then said "why didn't you tell me this before?"

He then looked at me frowning as in-between his eyes creased, forming into a sharp zig zag shape, and said "well if you gave me a chance, so are you interested Or not?"

So I said "well yeah, this person is obviously obsessed with these people and so I want to know why they are killing them?" I then walked over to Lestrade, picked up the blue file and left for the lab with a satisfied grin on my face.

When I got outside it was raining, so I quickly ran for the nearest taxi there was and told the driver to go to St Barnabis hospital. When I got there the driver yet again asked for £10 so I payed him and went inside to the lab.

Molly was standing up with her back turned to me, writing something down. I don't think she heard me come in, so I quietly walked over to the work area and placed the laptop down.

As I did she turned around, jumped out of her skin in the shock of seeing me and dropped the papers that she was about to carry, everywhere.

In the state of shock that she was in, all her words came out messed up as she tried to say "when? What? Why? I mean… when did you come in?"

She then knelt down to pick the papers up as I said "well. I only came in a minute ago. I hope you don't mind, I was just going to research someone."

As she finished picking up the pieces of paper she looked up at me and said "what are you researching? I mean who… are you researching?" in such a nervous way.

I then replied "Mary… Mary Morstan. John's girlfriend", in a slow way as I tried to concentrate on what I was typing. Then waited for it to respond to my search.

As I did Molly walked over to the over side of the room with the papers and started to write again while she said "so why are you researching this one. Now? But you never researched the others?"

To which I took my eye of the screen for a second while I said "she was different."

We continued to look at each other while she bit her bottom lip nervously then she looked away at her work as the computer made a noise. I turned my head to the screen, to see what it said. But all it said was invalid search, I then typed Molly's name. Molly Hooper, it worked perfectly: it showed up with Molly's files.

Then Molly looked over and said "I thought you were searching Mary Morstan" in a confused voice as she then started to walk over and stood beside me.

Still looking at the screen I said "umb…you used to be a dancer. That's hard to believe. Considering your posture is so bad." To which she said "my posture is fine and why are you researching me?"

To which I replied in confusion myself "I was just checking to see if the search was working, which it is: it doesn't seem to work when I type in Mary Morstan. Which can only mean two things? It's either faulty or… there is no such person."

To which she said "well, it's obvious isn't it? It's the computer, it's faulty."

So I then said "No, not necessarily just because it sounds impossible. It doesn't mean it is impossible." I then stood up and began to pace the room while I tried to look at the possibility that maybe she has changed her name, as I then started to ask myself why "why? Why would she change her name?" I said in such a frustrated way.

Then Molly tried to help and said "maybe she didn't like it, so then she decided to change it. It isn't like you can't do that."

I walked over to her, held her shoulders and said "No Molly this is far more interesting, she's got something to hide. But what? I know there's something Molly, I know it." I then let go of her shoulders as I walked away, held my hands up, spun around and said "I like it… oh and Molly have you had any men in lately in their late thirty's?"

She then looked at me trying to think and said "err… I had Matt in here. I was dating him."

I looked at her in shock and said "what? Well why didn't you tell me?"

She looked at me confused and said "what do you mean, why didn't I tell you? I… didn't think I would have to."

I then walked over to her and held her shoulders again as I said "you need to tell someone: this is serious Molly. I'm here for you."

She still looked confused as she looked into my eyes and said "you are…but I still don't understand we broke up that's all, it wasn't working. He went away to Scotland."

I let go of her shoulders and said "so he's not dead? I was talking about people in the morgue."

She seemed more understanding as she said "oh, I thought you meant. Well it doesn't matter we've had three in, in the last five weeks. Err one died from poisoning, the second one died from a hit and run and the last one died from a stabbing."

I walked over to the door and said "perfect, would you be able to show me them?" as I was getting ready to leave for the morgue.

She then walked back over to her work as she said "yeah, I'll just be one minute. You can go over there now though if you want and wait for me: I'm just putting these away."

I then opened the door wider and said "ok I'll see you there then." While I smiled at her then closed the door behind me and carried on walking till I turned a sharp corner that brought me to the lit up corridor of the morgue. I then stopped to check my phone as I just got a message from Mycroft saying

I've just seen John and his girlfriend looking very cosy.

MH

So I replied

What are you getting at?

SH

Just the fact that he's your boyfriend. I've seen the way you look at him; you look at him in a way that you've never looked at anyone before. So don't say you're not together or at least that you don't like him.

MH

I then put my phone away in my coat pocket as I wasn't ready to tell anyone yet about mine and John's relationship, then carried on walking down the corridor to the morgue.

When I got inside I couldn't stop thinking about how we were going to tell people about our relationship. It was like I had a wakeup call saying, you can't, not tell people and especially Mary. John can't keep going behind her back: I was actually starting to get quite stressed out about it. As I stood with my hands together, pointing upwards as fingertips touched my chin so delicately.

Molly walked in and straight passed me, over to where the first body was. As I followed on with a grin on my face: I had forgotten about my worries for the moment and wanted to see if there was anything that I could pick up on about this body.

As I stopped to look at the body, Molly was putting her white, paper thin gloves on as she said "Err this is Mr Addams he was poisoned with four chemicals, bleach, acetone, morphine and alcohol." Then unzipped the bag containing the body, when it fully unzipped she stepped back and waited for me to examine it. As I just stood there lifeless she said "Sherlock" in an attention grabbing way.

I then looked at her in fright as I said "what?"

She looked at me in worry and said "are you ok?"

To which I said "yeah I… was just thinking" as I carefully examined the body for any other details about the death. While I did I noticed on the hip was a no 3 so I leaned over to get a closer look, then realized that the number was written on with gold ink. So I said "wright, can I see the next one?"

To which she replied "yeah, sure" then moved across to the second victim. Yet again she unzipped the bag and said "this is… Mr Wilson he was stabbed three times in the stomach with a bread knife."

The stood back as I leaned over again to see if there was a number, there was only this time it was a no5, I looked up at Molly and said "have you seen this?... what does it mean?"

"I don't know." She then said, so I walked over to the next victim and said "what did this one die of?" while I held out my hand as to say, could you?

So she walked over, unzipped it and said "this is Mr Woods he was ran over twice."

By the time she had finished talking I had looked at the body and found a no7. So I then moved away from the body and putting my hands over my head, said "but what does it mean? What do all these numbers mean?" I then went to my mind palace and remembered what Molly said before about them all getting killed within five weeks. And said "Molly, all three of them got killed in five weeks, yes. How long between each one was each death?"

She then looked at me slightly panicky and said "err… the first one was on the ninth then the second one was two weeks later and the third was two weeks from that."

I then stopped for a moment, not saying nor doing anything while I thought, then said "3, 5 and 7, that's it. They are the numbers of the weeks, which each murder will happen. Each number is a warning, no3 a warning for the second, no5 a warning for the third, no7 a warning for… the fourth."

Molly looked at me confused and said "the fourth?"

To which I said "yes… Molly, when did Mr Woods come in?"

She replied "yesterday."

I then started to pace up and down again as I said "and the other numbers, each time there's another murder. The number goes down, so in two weeks the number will be one. So then after that, the number will be zero… meaning that there won't be anymore. Which also means it was planned all along; they knew who they wanted to kill from the beginning right to the end. But why do they want to kill these people? The letter, it'll be on that!"

Molly still seemed confused by all of this as she said "what?"

To which I said "the letter there was a letter!"