Mycrofts beloved

Blind Banker pt3

"They'll be back in China by tomorrow" John sighs "No they won't leave without what the cane for" I sigh stating the obvious "We need to find a hide out" Sherlock tells John. "It must be in the code" Sherlock walks over to pictures of the code. "Perhaps I should just leave you to it" Sarah says awkwardly

"Yes that would be helpful"
"No No, your welcome to stay if you want"
John and Sherlock overlap each other.
"Please stay if you want he's joking" John lies.

"Is it just me or is anyone else starving" Sara says "Oh God" Sherlock sighs and John gives him an angry look. Thank god Sarah brought that up though because I am hungry. John looks in the fridge and by his expressions I guess there is nothing there.

"So this is what you do. You and John solve puzzles for a living" Sarah states "consulting detective" Sherlock confirms "what about the little one?" She asks referring to me "my niece, not very helpful" Sherlock exclaims "Thanks" I sigh "I do help quite a considerable amount actually" I inform Sarah "how old are you?" She asks me "I'm seven" I tell her.

I look over at John he is rummaging for food. Luckily Mrs Hudson come up and brings punch and a bowl of nibbles. I grab a handful of nibbles and go back over to Sherlock and Sarah. "So what are these squiggles?" She asks Sherlock "An anchient Chinese dialect" Sherlock says "Hangzhou" I tell her "Oh I should have known" she chuckles awkwardly. "So these numbers are a cipher" She tries to understand "exactly" Sherlock sighs. "And each pair of numbers is a word" She tells Sherlock "obviously" I reply "how did you know that?" Sherlock asks "Well two words have already been translated" Sarah and I both say at the same time. "John!" Sherlock shouts "mmm" John comes over "look at this Sou Lin started to translate the code at the museum we must have missed it" Sherlock takes the paper out of the evidence bag. "Nine Mill" he reads "Nine million?" John asks "Nine Million quid, for what?" Sherlock asks himself putting his coat on. "Where are you going" I ask "to the museum whist Johns and I we're running about she must have started to translate it. I need to find the book it will be on her desk" Sherlock tells me "Oh and your coming with me" He adds. I shrug.

Sherlock runs out I follow. "Taxi" Sherlock calls. I accidentally knock past a couple making them drop their book. The man shouts at me in German. "entschuldigen sie, bitte" (excuse me, please) I apologise handing the book back. "Ja, danke" (yes, thanks) the man seems annoyed.

Sherlock and I walk off. Sherlock seems to get annoyed "What?" I ask "a book everyone would have" he mutters "ohhh!" I get it London A to Z is the code book. Sherlock runs after the German couple "Please wait, Bitte" He shouts at them. "Was wallt er?" (what do you want) the man still is annoyed. Sherlock takes the book off of him. "Hey?! du, was machst du?" (Hey! what are you doing) the guy is definable annoyed "Minute" I cut him off trying to make him quiet "Gib mir doch mein Buch zurück" (give me my book back) poor guy I hoped he wasn't too attacked to the book.

I look at Sherlock and he checks the book page 15 entry on "deadman, so he was threatening to kill them" he pulls out a picture of the numbers and flicks through the book. "Nine mill for" Sherlock continues. I snatch the book off him it's taking too long. "Nine mill for jade pin, dragon den, black..." I begin "tramway" Sherlock cuts me off.

Sherlock grabs me and pulls me into 221B "John I've got it they used London A to Z" Sherlock trails off. "What?" I ask I see the cipher and look at Sherlock in shock. We stare for a few seconds "we need to get him!" I yell. Sherlock rummages through some books pulling out a map. He looks for Where it could be "there" he points to Kingsway. "Come on" I am dragged down the stairs.

"Taxi!" Sherlock hails a Taxi. We get in. Sherlock tells the Taxi where to take us. It takes us to Kingsway in about ten minutes to get there. We run out and go into the abandoned tramway "stay close!" Sherlock whispers. We hid behind a fat cylinder, I don't know what it is I'll stick with fat cylinder. "I present Sherlock Holmes' pretty companion in a death defying act!" The Chinese woman says "No! Please" John cries. I shuffle sightly "shh" Sherlock holds his finger to his lip. "I'm not Sherlock Holme!" John shouts "I done believe you!" The woman replies "you should you know!" Sherlock shouts. "Sherlock Holmes is nothing like him. How would you describe me John. Resourceful? Dynamic? Enigmatic?" Sherlock asks "Late!" John sighs.

"That's a semi-automatic now Annabelle what do we know about those?" Sherlock asks me. "If you fire it the bullet will travel at over 1000 meters per second" I say. Someone is heading towards Sherlock he knocks him out. "Well?" The woman asked. "Well?" Sherlock asked me "the radius curvature if these walls is, Umm, nearly four meters if you miss the bullet will ricochet" I say. "Yes, it could hit anyone, it may even hit you!" Sherlock warns. Sherlock runs knocking over the fire cylinder. I follow. Sherlock runs, dragging me along, to help Sarah. He gets pulled back by someone. They take me too, I struggle and get out of their grip I'm small so I can slip out though they catch me again holding tighter.

I see the fear in Sarah's face and the arrow about to fire from the cross bow. John sees his change and, tied to his chair. He hops over to Sarah and as the arrow is about to fire. He knocks it out of position as it fires it hits one of the Chinese assassins, The one that had me and Sherlock. I gasp for air. "Are you alright? God Mycroft is going to kill me" Sherlock sighs "I'm fine" I cough.

He goes over to Sarah who is most definitely in shock. "It's ok it's over now" Sherlock tells her untying her. "Don't worry next date won't be like this" John reassures. Next date he'd be lucky to get one of those I chuckle quietly.

Sherlock scoops me up and John calls the police. They offer us shock blankets Sarah takes one, I don't need one but I'm cold so I take one too. I snuggle up in the blanket in Sherlock's arms he says something to Dimmok then we head to 221B in a police car.

When we arrive Sherlock lays me down on the sofa. Daddy soon arrives. "Hello brother dear" he greats patronisingly. "Hello Mycroft" Sherlock huffs. "What have you done to my daughter!" Daddy exclaims. "Daddy!" I squeal "what did he do to you?" Daddy asks me. "I'm ok, Sarah almost got shot with a cross bow!" I jump off the sofa. "What?" Daddy is confused. "How about we save the stories for another day" Sherlock opens the door "goodbye" he says and me and Daddy walk out to the car downstairs.