p dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"There was a pounding at the door which woke Sherlock up. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"He had passed out on the couch after spending almost all night working on finding Moriarty. He span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"groggily/span stood up still in his pajamas and house coat and answered the door running a hand through the messy curls on his head. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Opening the door, he noticed through tired eyes that it was Detective Lestrade. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Good Morning Detective. Can I get you a cup of tea?" Came the ever so chipper voice of John Watson, who emerged from the kitchen wearing a nice green sweater and was holding two cups. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""Sadly I'm only here for a visit. Something has happened Sherlock and I'm afraid it's not good." Lestrade said running his fingers through his salt and peppered hair. Sherlock had deduced this habit span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"to be/span a nervous tic, something to do only when he had terrible news to deliver. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Sherlock who was still bitter about being disturbed from his much-needed slumber blew air out of his nose. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""Well then no need span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"to be/span dramatic and drag it out. What is it?" Sherlock asked, still blocking the friendly detective from entering the flat. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Sherlock don't be rude, let him in." John said chastising Sherlock./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""Of course, Lestrade would you like to come in? Please sit in my favorite seat. John just went grocery shopping, would you like span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"all of the/span food we have to offer? Perhaps I could prepare a bed for an overnight stay." Sherlock rambled annoyed with the both of them. These dull humans were using up precious time he had to work on finding Moriarty. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Sherlock!" John hissed under his breath, embarrassed to call the detective his roommate. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Lestrade who span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"was tired/span of the bickering a/span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"nd had wo/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"rk/span to do finally came out and said it. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Sherlock, she's back." /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"The span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"curly haired/span man paused from the papers he was span class="hiddenSuggestion"
style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"previously/span browsing and looked up. A wave of panic arose from the detective as he processed the news. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Who is this now?" A clueless John asked as he ushered Lestrade into sit on the couch with him after clearing a bit of Sherlock's mess of the couch./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" "Are you sure?" Sherlock said, still frozen in his place never taking his eyes away from the detective who was fiddling with his coat nervously. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I am positive. She is back." He said with a sigh fearing the worst and only wondering what was going on in Sherlock's mind. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What are you positive about? Who is this mystery woman?" John asked now a very confused and slightly annoyed John asked. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What proof do you have?" Sherlock asked in a very quiet voice as he put down the papers he was holding and took a seat in the chair across from Lestrade and John. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Lestrade span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"sighed/span as if debating span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"whether or not/span to show Sherlock the evidence but instead pulled out a very elegant envelope and handed it to Sherlock. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"John couldn't see what span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"was written/span, but he could see fancy gold cursive writing on the front. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Sherlock opened the envelope and gasped when he took out the invitation. John had never seen Sherlock this speechless in his life. Not any sort of sound was coming span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"fro/span/span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"m the energetic /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"detective. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Carefully Sherlock looked back in the envelope and saw something else. He pulled out a picture and blanched, putting his head in his hands. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Will someone explain to me what is going on?" John yelled frustrated with the situation. He stood up and ripped the picture from h/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"is friends /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"hand. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It was a picture of a girl next to Big Ben. There was nothing out of the ordinary except for the woman in the picture. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"She was wearing skin-tight black leather pants with high stilettos making her seem to have spidery long legs. On top she wore a very low-cut black blazer with nothing on underneath it. She had long almost black curly hair pulled back on her head by large sunglasses. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She was absolutely stunning. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"John turned the picture over to read the inscription./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'm back. Did you miss me?"/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Sherlock, who is this? What is the invitation for." John asked, fearing the answer./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Instead of replying the genius handed the soldier the invitation. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""A wedding." Sherlock replied as he folded his hands resting his hands on top of them in deep thought. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"John peered at his friend gauging his reaction. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Whose wedding? Sherlock, who is getting married?" John asked as he looked at the invitation. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It was a normal wedding invitation stating the name of the bride and groom which made John even more confused. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sherlock was silent for a few more minutes clearly deep in thought. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""My daughter." /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sure enough, when John looked down at the invitation he saw the name Holmes. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Guinevere Holmes./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /span span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""How could you have not told me you have a daughter?" John quietly seethed as an elderly span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"lady/span turned around and glared at them. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sherlock who was indifferent to his friend's distress continued looking around the church taking in every last det/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"ail/span. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"John realizing that he was going to get nothing from his friend who was lost in thought gave up. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"As soon as Sherlock told him his daughter was getting married the detective forced him to put on a tux and abandon his plans with his date to go to the wedding that day. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Who doesn't even know that their own daughter is getting married? /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Shouldn't you be walking her down the aisle? Who is her mother? Why haven't I heard you speak of her? How did Lestrade know you have a daughter but not me? How did she know you would get that invitation? How did-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span id="docs-internal-guid-584b76d7-492a-5346-2501-dd454fab9932"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden""John honestly stop speaking, I am not able to think with you constantly chattering. Besides it wasn't important to tell you about her." Sherlock interrupted as the old span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"lady/span in front of them glared again. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"John span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"was baffled by the/span man before him. This was typical Sherlock, hide the fact that he had a daughter and then think it span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"to be/span unimportant. Surveying the room around him John took in the beauty of the church. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Of course it was Westminster Abbey. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"The abbey span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"was decorated/span with black roses and span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"ladies/span dressed in their best. Apparently the man she was marrying was a duke making Sherlock's daughter a soon to /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"be duchess. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden""Well I will say this, your daughter knows how to pick them." John mumbled to his friend as they stood up at the start of the music. Her bridesmaids wore the deep shade of red and were holding black roses. According to the paper, the bridesmaids were all related to her fiancée Edward. Edward was a man who was older than John himself. He was completely taken back by the situation, but decided questioning it was useless seeing how the span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"young girl/span who was marrying a duke twice her age and telling her father about it last-minute was a Holmes. And to a Holmes, social norms don't exist. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden" Everyone turned at the start of the bridal march and Sherlock braced himself. He was trying span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"to be/span indifferent, but it was so hard when she had come back into his life. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"John peered around the hat of the woman behind him to get his first glance of his best friends daughter. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"She looked like a goddess. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"She was floating down the aisle wearing a span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"strap less/span black dress that looked like something fit for a princess. She was holding blood-red flowers that matched her lips perfectly. John could see the resemblance between Guinevere and Sherlock as she approached the altar closer to where he was. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"She had the same curly black hair and piercing blue eyes. She had a long, slender frame and powerful jaw line features similar to her father's. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"John tore his eyes away from her to look at his friend whom he had found was looking back at him. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock leaned down to his friend and whispered, "Don't get any ideas about falling in love with her." /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"Startled John whispered back, "Why would I fall in love with her? She's half my age and is getting married span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"right now/span." /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""She has been with men who are twice my age, and this marriage won't last. I give it less than an hour." Sherlock said with a scoff./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"The rest of the ceremony was beautiful. Sherlock knew that everyone in the room couldn't take their eyes off of the bride dressed in black and he scowled knowing she was loving it./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"Guinevere scanned the crowds trying to find her father knowing that even he would show up. When she found him she offered him a little smile which just made his frown deepen. She span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"sighed/span, knowing she would have some patching up to do. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden""I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride." And with that Guinevere and the forty-year old man kissed and became husband and wife. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"Suddenly, there was span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"a commotion from/span the back of the church. In came ten masked men with guns yelling for the girl. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Guinevere sprang into action and amidst the chaos of everyone who had panicked she found her father. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Grabbing his hand, they dashed out the door and into the getaway car. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px;
font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""Wait, my partner! John!" Sherlock yelled behind him, wondering where his friend was. He was John in the crowd leaving the church. He was forcefully pushed down by one of the men /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"onto/span th/span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"e ground. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock ran towards his friend, but it was Guinevere who reached him first. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"From beneath the skirts of her dress Guinevere pulled out a small pistol and shot the unsuspecting man in the back. Another masked man who heard the commotion shot, but missed leaping on top of her. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"By now all the guests had escaped and some of them lay dead in the church the Duke Edward included. Sherlock raced to his friend dragging him to the car waiting for them. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden""Sherlock, your daughter!" John protested, looking back at the young woman. He became confused quickly upon seeing the tables turn as the girl who span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"had been attacked/span gained the upper hand and threw him off of her. She dodged his hits with grace and thrust her palm into her assailant's nose with a sickening crack. He fell to the ground in agony as she lifted her skirt kicking up her gun in her hand and/span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;" shot/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;" the man without a second thought. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"The other men who had searched the crowds for her came chasing after her from across the church, but she was already running down the steps and into the car. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"John stood bewildered at how someone could attack and shoot a man and still look graceful while doing it. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"The three quickly climbed into the car with the Holmes seated next to each other facing John as Sherlock yelled at the man to drive./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""How did you have this car ready? How did you just fight that man? Why did you have a gun on you? Do you know your husband is dead now?" John barely waited until they were away from the chaos before he fired out questions. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock rolled his eyes and eyed his daughter who arched a perfect eyebrow, looking at her father as well. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"In a thick Russian accent the woman drawled "Does he always ask this many questions?" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock scoffed "He never stops." /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""Hello do you people realize that your surprise wedding to a duke was just interrupted by masked men who killed people." John yelled very frustrated with the Holmes family. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock pulled out his phone and began furiously typing something and Guinevere began admiring her long pointed red nails. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""You should have seen my last wedding! Poor soul didn't even make it to the 'Death do us part' when he keeled over dead. Of course I had poisoned his drink earlier so it wasn't as much as a surprise as this one was. All though I did feel this attack coming." Guinevere mused, never looking up from her nails. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""The last one was the famous mafia leader right?" Sherlock asked turning to his daughter. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""No that was the one before. This one was the dictator of that small country that tried to declare war on Germany." Guinevere said with a wave of her hand. Sherlock nodded in understanding as if they were talking about something as simple as the weather. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"John stared at the both of him with his mouth open in shock. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Guinevere looked up at John Watson and flashed him a dazzling grin, holding out her hand to him. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""We haven't been properly introduced. I'm Guinevere Holmes." /span/span/spanspan style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /span/p
style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"previously/span browsing and looked up. A wave of panic arose from the detective as he processed the news. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Who is this now?" A clueless John asked as he ushered Lestrade into sit on the couch with him after clearing a bit of Sherlock's mess of the couch./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" "Are you sure?" Sherlock said, still frozen in his place never taking his eyes away from the detective who was fiddling with his coat nervously. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I am positive. She is back." He said with a sigh fearing the worst and only wondering what was going on in Sherlock's mind. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What are you positive about? Who is this mystery woman?" John asked now a very confused and slightly annoyed John asked. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What proof do you have?" Sherlock asked in a very quiet voice as he put down the papers he was holding and took a seat in the chair across from Lestrade and John. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Lestrade span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"sighed/span as if debating span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"whether or not/span to show Sherlock the evidence but instead pulled out a very elegant envelope and handed it to Sherlock. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"John couldn't see what span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"was written/span, but he could see fancy gold cursive writing on the front. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Sherlock opened the envelope and gasped when he took out the invitation. John had never seen Sherlock this speechless in his life. Not any sort of sound was coming span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"fro/span/span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"m the energetic /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"detective. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Carefully Sherlock looked back in the envelope and saw something else. He pulled out a picture and blanched, putting his head in his hands. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Will someone explain to me what is going on?" John yelled frustrated with the situation. He stood up and ripped the picture from h/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"is friends /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"hand. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It was a picture of a girl next to Big Ben. There was nothing out of the ordinary except for the woman in the picture. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"She was wearing skin-tight black leather pants with high stilettos making her seem to have spidery long legs. On top she wore a very low-cut black blazer with nothing on underneath it. She had long almost black curly hair pulled back on her head by large sunglasses. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She was absolutely stunning. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"John turned the picture over to read the inscription./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'm back. Did you miss me?"/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Sherlock, who is this? What is the invitation for." John asked, fearing the answer./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Instead of replying the genius handed the soldier the invitation. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""A wedding." Sherlock replied as he folded his hands resting his hands on top of them in deep thought. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"John peered at his friend gauging his reaction. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Whose wedding? Sherlock, who is getting married?" John asked as he looked at the invitation. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It was a normal wedding invitation stating the name of the bride and groom which made John even more confused. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sherlock was silent for a few more minutes clearly deep in thought. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""My daughter." /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sure enough, when John looked down at the invitation he saw the name Holmes. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Guinevere Holmes./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /span span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""How could you have not told me you have a daughter?" John quietly seethed as an elderly span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"lady/span turned around and glared at them. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sherlock who was indifferent to his friend's distress continued looking around the church taking in every last det/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"ail/span. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"John realizing that he was going to get nothing from his friend who was lost in thought gave up. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"As soon as Sherlock told him his daughter was getting married the detective forced him to put on a tux and abandon his plans with his date to go to the wedding that day. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Who doesn't even know that their own daughter is getting married? /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Shouldn't you be walking her down the aisle? Who is her mother? Why haven't I heard you speak of her? How did Lestrade know you have a daughter but not me? How did she know you would get that invitation? How did-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span id="docs-internal-guid-584b76d7-492a-5346-2501-dd454fab9932"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden""John honestly stop speaking, I am not able to think with you constantly chattering. Besides it wasn't important to tell you about her." Sherlock interrupted as the old span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"lady/span in front of them glared again. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"John span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"was baffled by the/span man before him. This was typical Sherlock, hide the fact that he had a daughter and then think it span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"to be/span unimportant. Surveying the room around him John took in the beauty of the church. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Of course it was Westminster Abbey. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"The abbey span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"was decorated/span with black roses and span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"ladies/span dressed in their best. Apparently the man she was marrying was a duke making Sherlock's daughter a soon to /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"be duchess. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden""Well I will say this, your daughter knows how to pick them." John mumbled to his friend as they stood up at the start of the music. Her bridesmaids wore the deep shade of red and were holding black roses. According to the paper, the bridesmaids were all related to her fiancée Edward. Edward was a man who was older than John himself. He was completely taken back by the situation, but decided questioning it was useless seeing how the span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"young girl/span who was marrying a duke twice her age and telling her father about it last-minute was a Holmes. And to a Holmes, social norms don't exist. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden" Everyone turned at the start of the bridal march and Sherlock braced himself. He was trying span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"to be/span indifferent, but it was so hard when she had come back into his life. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"John peered around the hat of the woman behind him to get his first glance of his best friends daughter. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"She looked like a goddess. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"She was floating down the aisle wearing a span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"strap less/span black dress that looked like something fit for a princess. She was holding blood-red flowers that matched her lips perfectly. John could see the resemblance between Guinevere and Sherlock as she approached the altar closer to where he was. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"She had the same curly black hair and piercing blue eyes. She had a long, slender frame and powerful jaw line features similar to her father's. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"John tore his eyes away from her to look at his friend whom he had found was looking back at him. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock leaned down to his friend and whispered, "Don't get any ideas about falling in love with her." /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"Startled John whispered back, "Why would I fall in love with her? She's half my age and is getting married span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"right now/span." /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""She has been with men who are twice my age, and this marriage won't last. I give it less than an hour." Sherlock said with a scoff./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"The rest of the ceremony was beautiful. Sherlock knew that everyone in the room couldn't take their eyes off of the bride dressed in black and he scowled knowing she was loving it./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"Guinevere scanned the crowds trying to find her father knowing that even he would show up. When she found him she offered him a little smile which just made his frown deepen. She span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: red; cursor: default;"sighed/span, knowing she would have some patching up to do. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden""I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride." And with that Guinevere and the forty-year old man kissed and became husband and wife. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"Suddenly, there was span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"a commotion from/span the back of the church. In came ten masked men with guns yelling for the girl. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Guinevere sprang into action and amidst the chaos of everyone who had panicked she found her father. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Grabbing his hand, they dashed out the door and into the getaway car. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px;
font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""Wait, my partner! John!" Sherlock yelled behind him, wondering where his friend was. He was John in the crowd leaving the church. He was forcefully pushed down by one of the men /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; cursor: default;"onto/span th/span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"e ground. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock ran towards his friend, but it was Guinevere who reached him first. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"From beneath the skirts of her dress Guinevere pulled out a small pistol and shot the unsuspecting man in the back. Another masked man who heard the commotion shot, but missed leaping on top of her. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"By now all the guests had escaped and some of them lay dead in the church the Duke Edward included. Sherlock raced to his friend dragging him to the car waiting for them. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden""Sherlock, your daughter!" John protested, looking back at the young woman. He became confused quickly upon seeing the tables turn as the girl who span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: green; cursor: default;"had been attacked/span gained the upper hand and threw him off of her. She dodged his hits with grace and thrust her palm into her assailant's nose with a sickening crack. He fell to the ground in agony as she lifted her skirt kicking up her gun in her hand and/span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;" shot/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;" the man without a second thought. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="mceItemHidden"The other men who had searched the crowds for her came chasing after her from across the church, but she was already running down the steps and into the car. /span/spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"John stood bewildered at how someone could attack and shoot a man and still look graceful while doing it. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"The three quickly climbed into the car with the Holmes seated next to each other facing John as Sherlock yelled at the man to drive./spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""How did you have this car ready? How did you just fight that man? Why did you have a gun on you? Do you know your husband is dead now?" John barely waited until they were away from the chaos before he fired out questions. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock rolled his eyes and eyed his daughter who arched a perfect eyebrow, looking at her father as well. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"In a thick Russian accent the woman drawled "Does he always ask this many questions?" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock scoffed "He never stops." /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""Hello do you people realize that your surprise wedding to a duke was just interrupted by masked men who killed people." John yelled very frustrated with the Holmes family. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Sherlock pulled out his phone and began furiously typing something and Guinevere began admiring her long pointed red nails. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""You should have seen my last wedding! Poor soul didn't even make it to the 'Death do us part' when he keeled over dead. Of course I had poisoned his drink earlier so it wasn't as much as a surprise as this one was. All though I did feel this attack coming." Guinevere mused, never looking up from her nails. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""The last one was the famous mafia leader right?" Sherlock asked turning to his daughter. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""No that was the one before. This one was the dictator of that small country that tried to declare war on Germany." Guinevere said with a wave of her hand. Sherlock nodded in understanding as if they were talking about something as simple as the weather. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"John stared at the both of him with his mouth open in shock. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"Guinevere looked up at John Watson and flashed him a dazzling grin, holding out her hand to him. /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;""We haven't been properly introduced. I'm Guinevere Holmes." /span/span/spanspan style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: #4a4a4b; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /span/p