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Tweak says, "...and don't call me Shirley"

Sherlock Holmes (ifimnothungry) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2012-05-08 22:09:00

Entry tags:

gil grissom, sherlock holmes

WHO: Sherlock Holmes & Gil Grissom
WHAT: Sherlock needs to learn police procedure in order to get reinstated to the police force. Gil offers to help him with shortcuts.
WHEN: After this
WHERE: Sherlock's flat
RATING: PG
STATUS: In Progress

It had been a lengthy on and off study session that Sherlock had been engaging in to try and learn the department procedure that Nathan wanted him to know before returning to work. It was something that had been stalled and complicated by the fact that Sherlock just didn't want to learn any of this information and thus, his brain was being difficult when it came to recalling it. It was as if the regulations were some type of poison, and his mind was violently trying to expel them before they infected everything else. It was amazing, really, that he hadn't even thought about cheating until Grissom had brought it up despite the fact that he had had every intention of deleting the information once it had served its purpose. But now that the possibility had been brought to his attention, it was pretty much the only path that Sherlock was going to be taking now.

Having returned back to his flat for the evening, just so that Irene and the very mansion itself couldn't offer even more distreactions from the information that he didn't want to learn, he'd spread out the texts on the floor in front of him, trying to organize the information in a system that would work with what he already knew, Sherlock knew that in order to get fully through these things that it wouldn't hurt to have someone here to test him. Without another voice to bounce things off of, he could give in, glance at the text, cheat and tell himself that he would be fine. It was a similar issue to ones that he'd had in University, on tests that he didn't really care for with information that could concern him even less than it did. The only difference here was that even as much as the information didn't concern him the thing which knowing it would lead to did.

He wanted back on the force, and if this what he'd have to do to do it, he'd figure it out. One way or another.

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ifimnothungry
2012-05-12 10:22 pm UTC (link)

"No. Often times, it's worse," Sherlock said, a deep furrow settling in his brow. "Because there is little discernible difference between the psychological profile of a criminal as there is between those that place themselves into law enforcement positions. It is often opportunity and circumstances which separate one from the other," Sherlock said before glancing up at Grissom with a thoughtful expression. "Granted, that's often the only things which prevent people from falling into crime, the lack of opportunity or the necessary circumstances to do such a thing."

Of course, Sherlock was pretty certain that that made it clear he didn't consider crime completely out of the realm of his options even as he would rather be solving them than committing them, so he didn't linger too long on the subject, changing it back to the matter at hand.

"I need to make sure that my memory system works," Sherlock said. "And I can hardly do that if I have the information directly in front of me where I can just glance at it if I can't recall things with ease. I'm hardly above cheating when the situation calls for it. But, I suppose, that's rather obvious," Sherlock said, realizing belatedly that their text conversation pretty much already covered that fact.

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