The journey to Mycroft's large house was only fifteen minutes long but it felt longer in the silence. When we arrived, we were greeted at the door by Lestrade (Emily was not there as she was at a music camp for the week). I decided to go straight to bed as I needed to devise a plan. I navigated through the maze of Mycroft house and made my way up to the guest bedroom. I sat down and got my phone out of my pocket. I had a text from Sherlock.
'We're going out to catch the vampire! We'll come pick you up tomorrow morning :) SH'
it read. Right, there was no way I was missing out on this! I decided, as cliché as it was, that I was going to tie all the bedsheets in the room together and climb out the window. I wrote a note saying I had left to go to the crime scene and left it at the foot of the bed. I double knotted each sheet together, tied one end to the leg of the bed frame and threw the other end out the open window. I started to climb down the makeshift rope. My knuckles were white as falling to my death was not on my to do list. Luckily, I safely made it in one piece to the ground. I ran away from the house and down onto the street. I got a cab to take me back down to Baker Street. Looking back, probably wasn't one of my best ideas as I now realise how easy it would have been to kidnap me but, oh well. Once I had payed the cabbie with the emergency money stash in the back of my phone case, I entered the flat to tell Mrs Hudson I was back and to grab a coat. I then ran down to the crime scene in the dark, yet again, not one of my best ideas!
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The Crimson Woman
ActionA few days before Halloween, a man has been found in an alleyway with two puncture wounds in his neck. He had been drained of all his blood. Locals suspect a vampire but surely that can't be true, or can it? Sherlock, John and Zander try to hunt dow...
