"So what's the next step?" Jayden asked.

"What's the next step to what?" Sherlock said.

"To solving the crime." Jayden clarified.

"Well, we could either do a few interrogations, or wait and see if there's another murder." Sherlock said. "I've always preferred the latter, but more evidence usually pops up before then. I'm going to see if my network has any information regarding the victim. I'll be back in an hour or two. Go grab some lunch or something. Why don't you take him to Angelo's?"

Sherlock walked off down the street.

Jayden turned to John.

"Is he insane?" Jayden asked.

"Uh... Yep. Pretty much." John sighed. "He had a good idea though. I am getting peckish. You?"

"Yeah." Jayden said. "Where's Angelo's?"

"It's a restaurant we go to sometimes. Sherlock knows the owner." John said. "It's not far away, we can walk."

"Sounds good." Jayden nodded.

They walked the ways to the restaurant, and once they got there, a conversation was started.

"Have you ever been to the USA?" Jayden asked.

"No, can't say I have." John said. "I'd like to someday though."

"What about Sherlock?" Jayden asked.

"I don't think so." John answered. "He has been all over the place though. Most of the countries in Europe, a few in Asia, I think he went to Africa once."

"Why did he go to all those places?" Jayden asked.

John hesitated, not knowing whether or not he should tell Jayden about the Fall, or if Sherlock wanted to tell him about it.

"Uh- Just a second." John said.

Sherlock felt his phone buzz in his pocket as he walked to the next . He pulled it out to see John had texted.

Jayden's asking about the fall. - JW

What should I tell him? -JW

Sherlock hesitated to answer.

What does he know? - SH

That you've been to a lot of countries. - JW

John could see the '...' and he knew Sherlock was typing something, then deleting it, typing something, then deleting it.

It was still a raw spot for Sherlock, even John didn't know much about what had happened, just the bare basics.

Tell him what you know. - SH

You sure? - JW

Yes.- SH

It could open a whole new can of worms... - JW

I know. Are you trying to persuade me not to have you tell him? - SH

No, no, it just- I'm surprised you're wanting to be this open about it. - JW

I'm not. - SH

You know what I mean. - JW

I'm just glad you recognize that he'll have to find out at some point. - JW

Yes, John, I get it. - Sh

If he wants to know more, tell him to ask me. - SH

I will. - JW

John glanced up at Jayden to find that he was staring at John.

"Well it's not exactly hard to figure out who you're texting." Jayden said.

"What do you mean?"

"You were rolling your eyes at the phone." Jayden said. "So is it top secret or something? Why he went to those places?"

"Not exactly, it's just a touchy spot for him." John said. "4 years ago, he was on a very, very high pressure case, and a few Scotland yarders who don't like him in the slightest, were trying to tear down his reputation. They were trying to convince the world that he was a fake. He's not of course, but it looked like it. There's man named James Moriarty who is more or less your brother's enemy. He's obsessed with trying to beat Sherlock. He had a hand in the process and got people to believe that he was actually just an actor named Richard Brook, who had been paid, by Sherlock, to pretend to be Moriarty. He was very thorough, and most of London believed it. Enough that Sherlock was considered a criminal, and the Yard was after him. They arrested him in his flat, and I-" John hesitated.

"Let me guess, you managed to get yourself arrested with him?" Jayden said. "Punched somebody or something?"

"How did you know?"

"You and Sherlock seem really close." Jayden said. "That, and it just sounds like something you would do."

"Thanks for the vote of confidence." John sighed. "But yes, that's what happened. Then, Sherlock got this crazy idea, and actually escaped the officers. In order to get away, he pretended to take me hostage, and pointed a gun at my head."

"I'm sure that made you feel good." Jayden said sarcastically.

"I didn't care much actually." John said. "I had no doubt he wouldn't shoot me. Anyway, so we ran off then, hand cuffed together, not sure which of the stupid Yarders did that, but it was quite inconvenient. I'm going to skip a bit here, to the important part. We eventually got separated and and he went off to do something. I didn't know what it was at the time. He went to the top of St. Bart's hospital to meet Moriarty. He didn't know it until he was up there, but Moriarty had snipers trained on Mrs. Hudson, Greg Lestrade, and I. The only way to call them off, was for him to jump off the roof, committing suicide, and dying in disgrace, seeing as how London now thought he was a fake. Sherlock used some of Moriarty's phrasing against him, said that as long as Moriarty was still alive, he wouldn't have to jump. He underestimated how far Moriarty was willing to go, and Moriarty shot himself."

"So what did he do?" Jayden asked, now quite interested in the story.

"He jumped." John said. "He survived the fall obviously, and I'm still not sure how. But after that, he disappeared for 3 years. I didn't hear from him that entire time, not even a note to tell me he wasn't dead. Then, one day, he shows up again. Out of nowhere."

"What did he do while he was gone?" Jayden asked.

"The most I know was that he was working on taking down Moriarty's network." John said. "That's pretty much all I know, other than the fact that he went a lot of places. I also know that it was not pleasant."

"Why hasn't he told you?" Jayden asked.

"I don't know, I pressured him to at first, but I stopped that after awhile, it only made things worse." John said. "But uh- he told me to tell you that if you want to know more, that you should ask him."

"Why would he tell me and not you?" Jayden asked. "You've known him a ton longer."

"I know it doesn't seem like it yet, Jayden," John said. "but I think you're already very special to Sherlock. He was already quite protective of you as soon as he knew you existed."

"I wasn't in danger, what would he want to protect me from?" Jayden asked, confused.

John scolded himself at the slip up. For reasons unknown, Sherlock didn't want Jayden to know about his experience with the Holmes family.

"Well, you were adopted into a very wealthy family, and that doesn't come without it's risks." John said. "And you were around Mycroft. Definitely a risk at becoming boring there."

"Yeah." Jayden said. "That makes sense."

John was quite proud of himself. He had actually managed to come up with a believable cover up.

It made him think again though, wondering why Sherlock was wanting to hide this from Jayden.

Sherlock walked away irritably. None of his homeless network had heard a thing more than Sherlock already knew. The victim was a quite person it seemed, keeping to himself more often than not. There wasn't a lot to go on. Sherlock walked up the stairs to the flat and walked in.

"No luck?" John asked.

Sherlock shook his head.

"None at all."

"I'm sure something will turn up. Tea?"

"Not thirsty."

"Sherlock, I'm going to ask you again, and you're going to consider the fact that you haven't eaten all day." John said. "Tea?"

"Not now, John!" Sherlock said. He walked over to the wall where he had snippets of information pertaining to the case on the wall.

"Relax, something will pop up." John said. "You'll be sitting there pouting when some sort of miraculous deduction/lead thingy enters your mind, and then you'll be bouncing off the walls while insulting me until I'm ready to help you follow it up."

Sherlock looked over at John.

" 'Deduction/lead thingy?' " Sherlock said. "Really, John?"

"What else was I supposed to call it?!"

A/N: It was brought to my attention in the last chapter that it was unlikely that Sherlock would hit Jayden on the back of the head, even lightly, considering the hinted abuse. I want to clarify that. When Sherlock hit Jayden on the back of the head, it was Sherlock testing Jayden to see if he flinched. The results would tell Sherlock the conditions that Jayden had been living under. Jayden did not flinch, showing that he had been subject to no physical abuse as of yet. I'm sorry I did not make that clear enough, and I hope to do better in the future.