Freak {A Sherlock Story}

" There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. "
― Diane Arbus

Evangeline Lestrade has always been known as someone that was anything but ordinary, the freak who had to hide behind her father's police badge to keep herself safe.

Sherlock Holmes has always been the freak who knew too much, the boy that couldn't keep his mouth shut if it would save his life

The legends of Sherlock Holmes and his cocky, intelligent, detective skills are no mystery to Van. After all, she's heard them all from her father ever since he met the young detective all those years ago. So when Van earns a spot working alongside her father at Scotland Yard, she meets the mysterious detective from her father's stories. However, she soon finds it's as hard, if not harder to work with the younger Holmes as her father always described. Especially when he's your neighbour. After all, trouble follows Sherlock Holmes the same way his inky black coat billows behind him when he walks.

When trouble brews among the criminal classes and a mysterious enemy arrives on the scene, Van is forced to work with Sherlock to bring down the evil behind the mask. But as she grows closer the detective, could Lestrade's only daughter be in deeper than she thought?