The Only Exception,' Holmesbury

Seven: This Happens To Me Like All The Time

"Sherlock, what's wrong?" enola asked.

enola did not expect to hear what came out of her brother mouth.

"benjamin... he tried to take you, years ago when you were just five years old..." sherlock said, remembering the fear that took place that day, years ago.

"he what?!" enola and tewkesbury both exclaimed in unison.

"what do you mean he tried to take me?! why me?!" enola exclaimed.

so sherlock began to tell the story.

"well... benjamin didn't like father very much, he was his competitor..."

a five year old enola giggled as her fifteen year old brother chased her around the front yard of ferndell hall.

"i'm gonna get you!" sherlock smiled and picked enola up as she let out a loud giggle.

"got you!" he spun her around in circles.

enola laughed in hysterics.

"sherlock! can you please come here?! i need help with something!" he heard his mother yell.

"coming!" sherlock yelled back.

"i'll be right back!" he put enola down gently as she nodded with a small giggle.

sherlock then walked away leaving the five year old in the front yard by herself.

little enola then gasped as she saw a tiny cat.

"kitty!" she screamed which scared the cat, making it jump and start to run away.

"wait! come back! i won't hurt you, kitty!" enola yelled and began to chase the cat.

just as she made it four houses down, that's when sherlock came back.

sherlock froze as he did not see his sister.

enola continued to chase the cat but all of a sudden a firm hand grabbed her tiny arm firmly.

enola let out a yelp as she looked up at the stranger.

"NO, GET AWAY FROM ME!" she screamed, which caught sherlock's attention.

he then noticed a man picking up his sister as she screamed and hit him hard.

sherlock's eyes widened as he quickly ran towards his sister and the man.

"LET HER GO! LET MY SISTER GO!" sherlock screamed as the man took off.

"NO!" sherlock yelled, running faster.

sherlock soon caught up and kicked the man in the legs which made him groan and drop enola.

sherlock caught enola as he sighed in relief.

"you're safe now, little one." sherlock said softly before glaring at the man on the ground.

"SHERLOCK!" and angry voice that sherlock recognized to be his fathers yelled.

"what have you done now—" he took notice of the man that he recognized to be his component, benjamin bennett.

"you." alexander sneered.

"what are you doing near my family?" alexander hissed at the man who now stood up.

sherlock whispered what happened to alexander before rushing to bring enola back home.

he just needed to get him away from that man.

"i don't get it? why would he want to take me?" enola asked, confused.

sherlock sighed. "father may not have been perfect, but deep down he loved all of us. benjamin had just lost to alexander at work and he wanted to take revenge, the revenge being taking you away from him in the hopes of hurting him." sherlock said.

enola shook her head. "no, none of this makes the slightest sense! how do you even know about his reasons for his actions!"

"we had a whole court case about it, he admitted to his motive and went to prison for a few months." sherlock explained.

enola groaned. "goodness! why does everyone just want to kill me?!" she tossed her head back.

tewkesbury turned towards enola with widened eyes.

"enola! no one's trying to kill you! you're not being hunted—" he tried to tell her, well... to be honest he was telling himself that.

"he just tried to kill me like twenty minutes ago"

tewkesbury let out a grunt of frustration and tugged on his hair.

god not this again

tewkesbury cupped her cheeks, bringing their foreheads together.

"you'll figure a way out of this, enola. you always do." he bumped his nose with hers.

enola smiled gently leaning into kiss him before sherlock coughed.

"still here."

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"so you've got this man trying to kill you?" marmee asked, with a worried face as she stared at the girl in her house that she used to help take care of.

enola nodded, taking a sip of her tea.

"if i am completely honest, this happens to me like all the time." Enola chuckled as the family's eyes widened.

"it what?!" meg exclaimed.

enola nodded . "well, there was the time the man hired to assassinate tewkesbury tried to drown me and hit me in the head with his gun... the time a man attempted to stab me but with a prop knife and then tried to push me off of a really high ground... the time i was on a case and a man shot me but it just grazed my shoulder... or the time i—"

"amy, you're never aloud to become a detective" marmee looked towards her youngest as the twelve year old huffed.

"you want to become a detective?" enola asked amy gently.

amy shrugged. "kind of, you're really good at it! i want to do that to! but i prefer painting!" amy said as everyone laughed.

jo leaned her head on enola's shoulder and looked up at her.

"you better be careful." jo smiled.

"i will!" enola exclaimed as everyone gave her a look as if to say "no you won't"

"trust me, i've gone through this many times, i'll be alright!" enola smiled.

they just hoped that would be true