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parker succeeds by stealing the success of others (inafivepoundbag) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2012-06-05 20:42:00

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parker, sherlock holmes

WHO: Sherlock Holmes and Parker
WHAT: How To Steal A Museum 101.
WHEN: After visiting hours
WHERE: The Colligo Museum of History and Art.
RATING: TBD [probably not too terribly high]
STATUS: In Progress

Parker knew that what she was about to do was possibly the dumbest thing she had ever considered doing. Taking a member of law enforcement - even if he was technically just a consultant - on a museum raid was pretty much right at the top of the list of Things You Don't Do When You're A Thief. However, Parker also knew that she had a few things going for her here that made that rule open to more interpretation than it would have been otherwise.

For starters, the police chief was her ex-husband who seemed to actually kind of like her. Then there was the fact that things ran differently in Colligo and crimes that didn't hurt anyone, when committed by non-locals, were often overlooked in lieu of keeping the peace amongst the captives. Plus, she pretty much lived for pushing her own limits in her line of work and figured if there was one thing in the entire city that would challenge even her skills, it would be to teach someone like Sherlock Holmes how to pull off a heist that only someone of her caliber could ever hope to manage. So she had offered to show him how she'd done it the first time around, without actually admitting that she had been the one to do it. And, as the museum finally locked its doors and the the employees headed home, leaving only the overnight security guard between her and everything inside, the time had come to make good on her offer.

Now, sitting on the edge of the water fountain that was located diagonally to the museum, she waited to see if the consulting detective would show up so she could, in fact, go through with one of the craziest ideas she'd ever had. Parker figured she'd give him fifteen minutes or so to make his appearance. If he wasn't there after that, she was going to break into his place and steal all of his stuff instead. Because nobody, but nobody, stood her up and got away with it.

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ifimnothungry
2012-06-07 01:55 am UTC (link)

Sherlock had been more than ready to heave himself up over the edge of the building. Perhaps, without the fancy, yet still amazingly impressive, gymnastics that Parker had done so with, but when she offered out her hand to him, he decided that dangling from the side of a building while attached solely to equipment of her own was not the best time to stubbornly refuse assistance. And as he was hauled up and over the wall, he was surprisingly thankful that he hadn't. He was not a small man. Sure, his insistence upon starving himself whenever there was a case to work or a problem to solve left him rather a lot lighter than other guys his height and age, but he was still well over six feet tall and weighed 10 stone, at the very least. Yet, she had flung him upwards as though he were little more than a child's rag doll.

"That was," Sherlock started, following her lead to discard the harness, "impressive. At what point do you start struggling? 220, 225?" The questions once more were brief glances across the forefront of his mind, not things that he had intended to utter in the midst of her explanation, even as he had caught the majority of it. Careful at the turn or you'll die was about what it amounted to, and he couldn't help but be a little relieved that she hadn't left it at just that. "Understood," He said with a nod as he moved to follow her, leaning forward just enough to get a good look down the shaft.

Sherlock Holmes was not a man who was easily unnerved. Fearless was a word that he had heard used occasionally, but it was not quite accurate. Reckless would be more to the point. But as he peered down after her, he couldn't help but wonder if he'd gotten himself in over his head. Still, there was no sense in backing out now. All he had to do was hope that he made it down without accidentally knocking out the rusty bit and falling to his death.

Mycroft would never forgive him for that.

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