Hunter (Sherlock Fanfiction)

Chapter 11: Deal with the devil

The next morning I woke up early, even before Sherlock. My plan was to somehow sneak out of the flat without anyone noticing and go back to Moriarty's house to talk with him. Yes, it was an exceptionally stupid plan that would probably get me killed, but even if there was a chance that an antidote existed for the memory drug, I would finally be able to know my past. 

Avoiding the creaky floorboard, I made my way downstairs and out of the front door. Outside, there was a black Mercedes. The driving rolled the window down and looked at me.

"Y/n Y/l/n?" 

"Yes, Moriarty I presume?" 

"Get in, he's waiting for you." I cautiously stepped into the car and he started driving. 

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"So, you came back." Moriarty gave me a cocky smile, which I ignored. 

"You know what I'm here to talk about. The antidote."

"Clever girl, you worked it out." He stroked my face with his palm, which I quickly slapped away. 

"Touch me again, and I'll make you wish you were dead." I stated. He laughed before sitting down in his office chair, which seemed way too big for him. 

"Take a seat." He pointed to the small leather armchair opposite his. He then started looking through a pile of papers, tossing ones he didn't need all over the floor. After a few minutes he finally found the right paper, and pushed it towards me. 

"What's this?"

"Read it."

'Selsenki injection:

Developed by Curator scientist Henry Selsenki in the late 1980s, the Selsenki drug can be used to manipulate, erase and corrupt the memory of individuals after injecting into the veins. This can be done by analysing the brain pattern of the person and using a computer to take brainwaves and use them to create an image of a person's memory. From here, using other various chemicals, including another drug developed by Selsenki, a person's memory is able to be manipulated. Depending on the dose of the second drug, memories can often become completely wiped and a person can become reduced to a hollow shell, void of emotions.

The first successful administration of the drug was to subject 017/ Agent 001. Scientist's observed her behaviour over the course of a week after administration and found her mind to be completely malleable. 

'She seemed to be devoid of any sort of emotions, she would just sit there in her ward and not speak, eat or drink. On day three, we placed her into a room and started playing whispers that eventually made her have some sort of memory. After asking her what that memory was, she said that her parents died in a car crash and she was the only one to survive, a completely incorrect memory as her parents were alive and donated her to the Curators in exchange for 15 million pounds, after testing with multiple other subjects, it was found that this was the most effective drug. The victims were able to have their memories completely changed, they were obedient.' - Henry Selsenki, 1988

A counteracting drug was developed shortly after by Selsenki, a drug that was able to reverse the effects of the drug in case there was accidentally a situation where the wrong person were to be administered the drug. A supply of one antiserum per an agent is stored at the Curator's headquarter's, but this is the only known supply to exist as Henry Selsenki died in 1993 after a successful assassination attempt. '

One serum per an agent. Luckily for them, most of the agents would die at some point in a mission so that bottle of serum could go to somewhere else. That means that I still had my bottle of serum in the headquarters, I just didn't know where. I didn't even know where the headquarters were.