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stalking deer with the (earhat) wrote in doors,
@ 2012-03-02 21:29:00

Entry tags:

irene adler, john watson, mycroft holmes, sherlock holmes

[Text from unknown number.]
[The number was taken from a passing banker on Baker Street, at random.]

[Same text to all parties. Irene A., at her original number. Mycroft H., at the number no one is supposed to know except someone he has cuppa with weekly. John W., expecting his number to be the same.]
Alive. - SH

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	Text: M/SH notanadvantage 2012-03-03 06:58 am UTC (link)
	`Baker Street, if convenient. - M` (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Return text. earhat 2012-03-03 07:00 am UTC (link)
	`Sorry, he gave the phone back...` [From another number about thirty seconds later. From a school teacher waiting to cross the street.] `Temporarily. - SH` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Return text. notanadvantage 2012-03-03 07:03 am UTC (link)
	`Baker Street, if convenient. - M Right this moment, Sherlock. - M` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Return text. earhat 2012-03-03 07:12 am UTC (link)
	[No reply from that phone. The next one is from some kid.] `i.e. 23 hrs, 47 minutes. Lots to do. - S` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Return text. notanadvantage 2012-03-03 07:18 am UTC (link)
	[And time to call in the big guns. The next text reaches the phone Sherlock has just taken in his hand, before he even types.] `Now. - M` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Return text. earhat 2012-03-03 07:25 am UTC (link)
	`Busy.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Return text. notanadvantage 2012-03-03 07:31 am UTC (link)
	[Cue the cars, after triangulating that signal. The first one pulls up alongside him, black, nondescript and pacing him at whatever his speed is.] `Get in. - M` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Return text. earhat 2012-03-03 07:34 am UTC (link)
	[He ignores them and walks on only after demanding a phone.] `No. Have you heard from Moriarty yet?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Return text. notanadvantage 2012-03-03 07:39 am UTC (link)
	[A second car, coming from the other direction.] `Information to be provided in person. - M` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Return text. earhat 2012-03-03 07:42 am UTC (link)
	[Sherlock stops, stares at the sky for a few seconds. FINE. He gets in.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Text. solitairey 2012-03-03 07:45 am UTC (link)
	[After a couple of misdirects for the first number, she finally gets this one from Mycroft.] Come over? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Text. earhat 2012-03-03 07:48 am UTC (link)
	[There was no return text from this number. From another, several minutes later.] `Moriarty back?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Text. solitairey 2012-03-03 07:55 am UTC (link)
	221b Baker Street. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Text. earhat 2012-03-03 07:57 am UTC (link)
	[Curse it. NO DATA.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

nonelementary
2012-03-03 04:10 pm UTC (link)

[The message arrives as he's making one of his regular visits to Sherlock's grave. After a moment when he thinks he might finally be losing it, he replies, not necessarily expecting a response.]

Where?

[He shoves the phone back in his pocket and heads back to the taxi to return him to the flat.]

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	earhat 2012-03-03 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	[Different phone.] `London.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nonelementary
2012-03-03 11:33 pm UTC (link)

[Replying to that number, like sending hopeful dandelion seeds out into the wind.]

Big city. Going to be more specific?

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	earhat 2012-03-03 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	[New number.] `My brother is at the flat. I.A. too, apparently. Since when?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nonelementary
2012-03-03 11:43 pm UTC (link)

[Each time replying to the new numbers. He checks his watch.]

I've been gone for going on half an hour.

[It takes a moment for him to translate "I.A.".]

Since when is she alive too?

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	earhat 2012-03-03 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	[This number sticks.] `Magic doors?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nonelementary
2012-03-04 12:50 am UTC (link)

[He glares at his phone at that.]

I'm going to the flat.

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	earhat 2012-03-04 01:24 am UTC (link)
	`If it's still intact with M.H. and I.A. there.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nonelementary
2012-03-04 01:55 am UTC (link)

You coming too?

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	earhat 2012-03-04 01:57 am UTC (link)
	`Need data. See you soon.` (Reply to this) (Parent)