It only took around 1,5 hours for Q to hack the system and get the information Sherlock wanted. He downloaded everything to the laptop, cleared his traces, and exited the laboratory's server. He first decoded the data then swapped places with Sherlock to let him read through the gained information.
Sherlock looked positively gleeful and his happiness just grew as he proceeded with his reading.
"It's wonderful! It's all here! With that, we can find all the evidence at location in just a heartbeat!"
"Right… Well, good luck for that. I'm off to continue my holiday. Give my best to John."
"John? He's visiting his sister this weekend."
"Really, he decided to speak to her again? That's good. I guess it's Greg, then?
"Who?"
"Lestrade, Sherlock! It's time you learned his name. He's your friend."
"I don't have friends, and I wouldn't ask anything like that of him."
"Then who are you going to break in the laboratory with? You said 'we can find'?"
"Why, with YOU, of course! Who else? Do try to keep up; you're more intelligent than that."
"WHAT!? No! I told you I would only help you for maximal two hours. I have things to do, Sherlock!"
"Like taking a walk in the forest, climbing a mountain or horseback riding?"
"Exactly these things, yes! You make it sound like it's a bad thing to want to relax for a bit!"
"It is when you know there are people being basically used as guinea pigs without even knowing about it! But by all means, just go and enjoy yourself. Really, I don't know what I was expecting. I'm just going alone then."
"You can't do that! You'll get caught. There's no way you can pull this off alone."
"What do you suggest I do then? There's no one else for me to ask."
"That's not fair! Ahh… It would not take a lot of time, would it? I mean, it's Saturday. We read in their files there are only two security guards in the whole complex… We could get in, get what we want and then get out, couldn't we? I would be back by late afternoon. I guess I could still take a walk then…"
"So, is it a yes then? – Q thought Sherlock actually sounded a bit hopeful, though he couldn't be sure, not with someone emotionally so detached. – You'll still have the whole tomorrow, too."
Q finally gave in. "All right, all right… Let's go then!