Sherlocks Secret Escape

Chapter one The Case

Sherlock's Pov:

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I had called my brother up a day or so before, telling him my plans to become a consulting detective. The only problem with my plan was that I didn't know how to start my career, so I looked for something to do until Mycroft called me up a few days later.

Mycroft asked me to come to his office so I did, he had a very good case for me. The only problem was it was out of town, and I would have to go back to being in education. So when I arrived at his office I sat down and waited a while, Mycroft was in the room but he was just smiling at me saying nothing to me.

Finely he finished smiling and gave me the case. It was the case of the "Country Assassin", it was a case written about once in the paper. After that there was nothing about the case, like it had just disappeared. Sherlock didn't understand how the case just disappeared, now he understood why. The last and only article about the case only mentioned one council member being killed, whereas now in the new case file there had been at least six.

All the council members that had been murdered were high up on the council board, and attended parliament sometimes. The technique was different with every kill, none of them personal all just simple torture and kill. Except for the one signature from the killer, they would leave a cut along the forehead. It was nothing important but, this was something. It may not actually mean anything but it was a pattern.

I took the case kept my real name as no one actually knew it yet and, I was sent away. It was all happening in a small town called "Coalville". It was a small town with a few villages surrounding the town, with a couple of other cities and towns surrounding the area. Other than that the actual town was quite, I read about the town on the way (I caught the train). The town name is quite obvious with the history, it was a good coal mining town until the whole closing down thing but not all of them closed because of the closing down, others closed because there were accidents of sorts. Other than that the town seems quiet.

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I arrived at the town a few hours after I left London, my brother had organised a small apartment flat and some instructions and what was going to be happening. I was going to the towns local college, it was called 'Stephenson College' and I was to be studying animal care. How stupid could my brother be sending me to a college to look for an assassin in a course called animal care, he must just be doing it to punish me for some reason but then again. My brother would only send me to a certain course if he had his suspicion on someone in that course, if he hadn't then he would of sent me to watch all the people within the college for a week then would let me choice the course. My brother knows something and isn't telling me.

When I arrived at Loughborough train station, I hailed a cab and one just suddenly appeared like always. I told the driver the address and arrived about half an hour later I think, I lost count of time as a read a boring newspaper. The flat was horrible, it was too small and it smelt like someone had just died in the place however, it would be good enough for it's simple purpose. I unpacked and made a quick stop into one of the local shops grabbing a bit of food with some tea bags, coffee, cigarettes and milk. In the afternoon I went to the college and picked up my timetable and had my ID badge done. I was ready for the day ahead. 

Then I caught the sight of her, the girl the strange looking girl. She looked more like a boy then a girl, she liked her music as well though you could tell from her earphones, they were well used and even chewed at the ends. She wore black jeans, white vest top and navy blue shirt. She was about average height, with a bit of weight. She had deep purple hair and blue eyes, her ears were pierced twice and she had a belly ring in as well as he eyebrow being pierced. She held he hair up (I couldn't tell how she had it) and tucked in under a cap which had 'YOLO' written on the front. On her wrists were tattoos with quotes from famous books,    

"To be yourself  in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was on her left wrist.

""You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Written by Mae West. This was on her right wrist. You could tell both tattoo's meant something to this strange girl, she was the one that stood out most to me out of all the others. However, I was here to figure out who a killer was not why this girl was different from all the others here.

When I had finished at the college I went back home and lay on the sofa, there was nothing to do until the next day when I would start college so what was I suppose to do. I turned on the TV but, there was nothing decent on TV so I switched it off, grabbed my coat and went for a walk. Getting to know the town and its people.

As soon as I exit the flat building guess who I see, it was the girl from the college. She was out on a jog, she had her IPOD in a arm strap on her right arm. She was wearing thick black jogging bottoms and a running bra top and her hair back in a pony tail. She had her music quite loud as she couldn't hear the mean whistling at her. She stopped at a shop and got a bottle of water, it was quite late at night which meant not a lot of people were out however there were a few drunken idiots.

She came out of the shop and was about to put her earphones back in when a drunk bloke walked up to her and grabbed her arse. I was about to help her when, she swung around and hit the guy right in the head knocking him out cold, that's when his mates came running at her. I was about to help her when a bloke tried to punch her but, she ducked out the way pushing the bloke into the window of a closed fashion store. The others came at her but she punched on in the face like their mate and he hit straight on the floor, then she jumped over one of the taller men hitting him where it would really hurt and pushing his head into the ground after he fell from pain knocking him out cold. Then she turned towards the last man standing that she avoided before and with one flying kick knocked him out cold as well.

I was shocked at everything I saw and then she turned around, she saw me and then ran off around a corner. Leaving the crime scene. I rushed over to the men and tried to wake them up but it didn't work, I checked their pulses just in case and they were all alive. They were just all passed out on the floor after being beaten up by a teenage girl. I didn't feel anything for them, they deserved it anyway trying to grab a teenagers arse and then trying to beat her up. That's when my phone went off, it was my brother. What was he calling me for?

"Mycroft what is it?" I asked in an annoyed voice, however my surprised voice that I tried to hide from what just happened wasn't that well hidden.

"Just making sure you're alright after your journey, and to see if all was set up for tomorrow. What happened you seem surprized about something, is it the fact that I'm calling you little brother?" I didn't pay much attention to my brother while I stared at the direction that the girl had ran off in, that's when my brother  woke me from my thought. "Brother are you paying attention to me or not?"

"Yes Mycroft I am." I screamed down the phone at him. "The journey was fine, just a bit disappointed with the flat and yes I am shocked that you called. Now goodbye I'm going to bed ready for tomorrow." I hung up the phone on my brother and then I got a text.

Well good night then brother, I hope you're in a better mood tomorrow. MH" So after that I went back to the flat and lay in bed the time was close to midnight. I had to be up by eight, I would have to have a shower, then get dressed have all my belongings needed for the day then head out. I wasn't that far from the college about a ten to twenty minute walk depending on how I felt but also they had what they call a 'shuttle bus' to take you from the town centre to the college.

I suddenly felt the weight of sleep take over me then without warning, I fell asleep for the first time in days. My body must have been tired.