The Story of Sherlock and John

2:The Crime Scene

Hi, some of the stuff I've written here, may not be true, e.g place names, historic stuff. I'm just making some of them up. Please deal with that >< sorry!

Angela.

They reached the crime scene in less than 20 minutes. Lestrade greeted Sherlock and John. Then, explained what they have found out so far.

"The victim is female, around the age of 25. Probably a teacher here. She seems to have been killed with a long, sharp, object of some sort, and it went straight through her lower body..a few times. Maybe a knife?"

"Hmm, it is quite unique isn't it..." answered Sherlock, while observing the body. The female was thin, with bags under her eyes, she seemed to have had been through a hard time lately, probably depression and her face doesn't look relaxed. There were bruises on her body."John, what do you think?"

"Oh. Uh, hmm. She's been dead for around about 12 hours. That's all I can see." John replied, after looking at the body.

"Yes.....12 hours. And her body is only found now...... what's the time now? 6pm. Right. So that means she was murdered at around 6am. So she's been here the all day then? Why have no one seen it?" Sherlock stopped talking to observe to body more. T-shirt, shorts, jandals, sand, sunglasses........Ah.

"Because she-" started Lestrade but was cut off by Sherlock once again.

"She wasn't murdered here." said Sherlock. "Look at her clothing, loose short sleeved t-shirt, shorts, jandals. Where do people normally wear those kind of clothes? The beach. Look here, sand, its on her shoes, back, hair, wound. Obviously beach. She was at a beach where no one really goes, her body wouldn't have been found for a long time if left there. Look at the sand, its all rocky and dark, those beaches aren't really favourable, so why did she go there? Possibly because its quite deserted, so she can stay there, and think about life. She did that because she's been going through hard times, you can tell from the bags from her eyes, she hasn't been getting good night sleeps. And Lestrade, she isn't a teacher. She's a waitress who works at a cafe. Don't ask me how I figured that out, it isn't important.

"Anyway, continuing on. The murderer probably moved her here, to a more public area, so the body could be found. And why would they do that?" Sherlock stopped and looked at the body once more. He took out his mini microscope and started observing the wound, and the many bruises on her body. In less than a minute, he found something. There was a sad face ":(" printed with blood behind her neck.

"Sherlock?" John asked, curious, as he had noticed the face as well.

"Lestrade, find out the background story of this woman. From either her friends or family."

"Ok. Will do, Sherlock. But is there anything else you can deduce from all this?"

After a awfully long silence, Sherlock finally said something, "The weapon used was not a knife. You can tell from the wound. A knife wouldn't have been long enough to go straight through the body."

"Then what is it?" said Lestrade.

"It was a sword."

"A sword? Really? You got to be kidding me! There was a royal sword stolen at the museum not far away from here, a week ago! "

Sherlock froze and stared at Lestrade, "And you didn't tell me about it?"

"Well, I didn't think you'd be interested in a case like that."

"Come on John, we're going on a trip to the museum." Sherlock grabbed John's arm, "And Lestrade, find out more about that girl." and hailed for a cab.