Sherlock's Daughter

Chapter 17

Jessie's POV I walk into the double doors of the lab. Molly is mixing something at a counter. She looks up. "Hi Jessie, hello Sherlock,"'she says. "Molly I need to see Katie Akerman's body again," I say. Molly nods and swiftly roll a table with mothers body on it. She uncovers her body and looks up at me. I stare at mother for a moment hoping maybe she will magically come back to life. She didn't. "When you tested her for drugs did you find anything?" I ask her. "No nothing kind of strange," she says. "Did you ever think of doing a brain scan," I say. "Well......no," she says. She grabs the table and wheels it to the brain scanner. I help her with the body. We position her head into the scanner and wait. It scans for a moment. I stand there watching it intently. A picture comes up of her brain, there are white spots covering her brain. "Just what I thought," I says turning around and head off to the lab. I grab one off the testing rats and feed it a pill, he sits there for a moment. Then it flops over dead. The pill is not ready obviously and someone knew it. I tell daddy about what I think he agrees that I am probably right. When we get home there is a note sticking to my window. I pull it off confused. I read it. "She is located in Boston, Massachusetts." - M. Who is she? I fall asleep thinking about "she."   Jessie's POV I have to get early because I am getting my brace off finally. John hops around excitedly. Since he is a doctor I don't actually have to go to the hospital to get it taken off, and cleaned up. Daddy is sitting on the couch watching me with worried eyes. "John what if  it's not healed," daddy's says. "Sherlock it's healed I promise," John says taking tools so he can loosen the brace. He takes a screwdriver and loosens one of the joints on the brace. He does it to the other one. He looks up at me and smiles. He slips of the ugly metal thing. All that is left is a bandage. He unwraps it. There is a huge ugly scar right across the center of my knee and two scares on eathier side of my knee where they put bolts in. "Looks fine to me," John says. John ushers me to get up and walk around. I get up and walk it feels good to stretch my knee for once. "Now Jessie you will always have a little limp in you step, but it okay," John says watching my knee. I was kind of bummed since I forgot to tell daddy and John that I played volleyball and tryouts are coming up. "Jessie come lay down on the couch so I can put this on you knee," John says. I hop on the couch and lay on my back. He starts rubbing this weird lotion stuff on my knee. Daddy reaches for his violin and starts to play a song. He only does it when he wants to think. I close my eyes and let my mind wander. I must of fallen asleep because when I woke up I was being carried to my room by John. He tucked me in and kisses my forehead. I sighed and fell asleep instantly.