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Sherlock Holmes (ifimnothungry) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2012-08-15 21:48:00

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rachel pirzad, sherlock holmes

WHO: Sherlock Holmes & Rachel Pirzad
WHAT: Sherlock is going over some mystery samples, but someone else ends up getting the jump on his studies.
WHEN: August 15th; Afternoon (After This)
WHERE: The Colligo Crime Lab
RATING: PG
STATUS: In Progress

Sherlock hadn't been horribly starved of work lately. He'd avoided throwing his lot in with the other scientists during the previous madness that had ensued because he had thought that as many egos that they already had working together on one thing, adding his into the mess would have just set their productiveness back, and he had had more than enough duties to attend to with the police force as it was. Shuffling insane people out of the middle of chaos wasn't exactly his standard practice, though, and his patience had started to run thin by the time that the toxin had actually been cleared from the city, so being back in the lab was a relief to him even if what was on the slides in front of him continued to confound his extensive skills.

Flipping the magnification and adjusting the settings, Sherlock squinted into the microscope before huffing quietly, "What am I missing?" He muttered to himself, leaning back over and picking up the shirt that the sample had been pulled off of, turning it over in his gloved hands before holding it up to the light. There was something that was making figuring out what this was more complicated than it should be, but for the life of him, whatever that was was beyond him.

Lowering the shirt back down on the table with a huff, Sherlock paused as he caught a sudden whiff of something in the air, seemingly stirred up from him dropping the shirt back down. Well, that was new.

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ifimnothungry
2012-08-16 03:10 am UTC (link)

Remarkable. That was the main thought that crossed Sherlock's mind as he struggled to keep himself from looking too horribly amused at her reaction to her own behavior. "If there is anything that you don't need to apologize to me for, it's anything even close to rudeness," He said, moving to the sink and washing his hands thoroughly just to make sure that anything that might have transferred from the shirt to his hands was taken care of before turning back to the young woman.

"It's a little grating, having the solution handed to me rather than finding it myself, but considering the circumstances, I think I can forgive you," He said, extending a hand to her with a hint of a smile.

"Sherlock Holmes," He said before glancing back towards the door to the lab, his gaze lingering back to her. "I certainly hope that you are supposed to be here and didn't just wander in. I would hate to have to call security on someone who likely just saved me a great deal of agony should I have decided to be reckless. Which, to be quite honest, I likely would have eventually had the solution continued to allude me."

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thesynesthete
2012-08-16 07:46 pm UTC (link)

Had Sherlock not offered his hand to her when he'd introduced himself, Rachel probably would have been a bit more floored at his name. As it was, though, he was offering his hand to her, which meant she was far too busy trying not to recoil from it as though it were a snake to really let anything else sink in. "That..."

Trailing off, she drew in a breath and glanced up toward his eyes before immediately dropping her gaze back to his hand. "I don't shake," she blurted out, swallowing hard as she realized how bad that sounded. Quickly she tacked on, "It's just... hands have germs. Lots of germs. Even when they've just been washed. A-And dead skin. So much dead skin. I can't... I just..." She sighed in frustration and forced herself to meet his gaze, practically hearing Doctor Rosen's voice encouraging her to stand firm in her beliefs because they were not wrong.

"I'm sorry," she apologized sincerely, "It's nothing personal, really it isn't, but I don't touch people unless I have to." Pausing again, she cleared her throat then seemed to realize that he'd actually asked what she was doing there, too. Or, at least, had alluded to wanting to know as much.

"I'm here because was supposed to speak to Mac Taylor," she explained. "Nate Wuornos sent me, to discuss a possible job opportunity." She offered him a very small, somewhat self deprecating smile. "It never hurts to have a walking crime lab at a scene." Another pause before she blinked, eyebrows knitting together slightly as she asked, "And did you say you were Sherlock Holmes?"

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ifimnothungry
2012-08-17 02:18 am UTC (link)

The hesitation at shaking hands was something that he was actually familiar with and certainly something that he could appreciate. So even as she strove to explain, Sherlock just smiled and nodded as he dropped his hand back to his side, "It's quite all right. Those are all perfectly logical objections and issues to have," He said before glancing towards the door and motioning for her to head towards it. "I can show you where you can find Mac, if you'd like," He said before chuckling at her statements about a walking crime lab.

He'd heard muttering about a similar thing in regards to himself, but it seemed that she was better equipped than even he was if she was able to hone in on things without the use of a microscope or any other tools that were required for him to make his deductions. The jealousy at the idea of being replaced by someone more skilled was welling up in his gut, he knew that he had to be mature about this. More hands meant better work results, and well, he'd gotten used to Gil even as much as the man had grated on him at first. She, at least, was a little more endearing at first glance.

"And yes, I did," Sherlock said with a hint of a smile. "Not quite the Victorian version that you'd likely expect, though, but still just as capable, I assure you."

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