"You sound close," Alana says, no trace of irony in her voice. The way John speaks of Sherlock, she's heard more than a few speak of their loved ones with that kind of bluntness. In most cases, she's found it indicates intimacy more than anything else.
She's more caught on the names mentioned. Watson. Moriarty. Sherlock. She was more interested in Southern Gothic than old English literature, growing up, but that hasn't kept her from being familiar with the famous detective and the Napoleon of crime. In a city where the strangest things happen, the simplest explanation may in fact be that all of this is true. After all, she has a client who survived a zombie apocalypse. On the other hand, at home, she would suspect delusions clung to by a man who needs meaning in his life and finds it in the coincidence of having the same name as a noted literary figure. Without Sherlock himself or someone else to corroborate what's being said, it's going to take tactful probing to be sure of the truth.
"So in order to make his death look convincing, even you had to be kept in the dark."
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Date: 2014-06-04 11:46 am (UTC)She's more caught on the names mentioned. Watson. Moriarty. Sherlock. She was more interested in Southern Gothic than old English literature, growing up, but that hasn't kept her from being familiar with the famous detective and the Napoleon of crime. In a city where the strangest things happen, the simplest explanation may in fact be that all of this is true. After all, she has a client who survived a zombie apocalypse. On the other hand, at home, she would suspect delusions clung to by a man who needs meaning in his life and finds it in the coincidence of having the same name as a noted literary figure. Without Sherlock himself or someone else to corroborate what's being said, it's going to take tactful probing to be sure of the truth.
"So in order to make his death look convincing, even you had to be kept in the dark."