Sherlock had kept the skull for three years when he received word from Dresden again. John had just gotten out of the hospital (a two day stay after Moriarty had pulled the swimming pool down around their ears, recovering from a concussion and preventing the onset of pneumonia invited by John’s cracked ribs and dive into the swimming pool) when he received a letter. Dresden was requesting that Sherlock bring Victor to Chicago, as he did not trust the post and could not come to London personally at present. Sherlock considered the angles.
He had investigated Dresden, of course. He had lived in Chicago for several years, before which he had lived in a number of places, including Missouri, a small Illinois town a few hours from Chicago, and several orphanages. His parents had both died early, as had his first adoptive parent. His years with the Ragged Angel Investigations had been very standard PI work, though there were a few occasions when he seemed to have demonstrated a touch of brilliance in locating missing persons.
It was after Dresden left Ragged Angel that things got a bit stranger. He had an entry in the phone book - the paper phone book - under the category of “wizard” and the Chicago police had occasionally requested his advice. Sherlock wished he had been present for these events - the second hand reports were uniformly useless. Sherlock would have thought Dresden either a madman or a fraud, but he knew that neither option would have put Dresden in the position to demand favors from Mycroft - and moreover, the man Sherlock had met did not fit either category.
There were a few pieces that stood out. A video of Dresden on a talk show, weirdly fuzzy in video quality for something he had obtained directly from the television station. A cell phone camera, even more blurred, that showed Dresden and something, which Sherlock would have dismissed as cheap special effects had the video file not been found under several layers of security in Dresden’s confidential FBI file. But Sherlock didn’t have enough data to put together a real picture, and he hated to make hypotheses without facts.
If Dresden had the time to wait on a physical letter rather than the more immediate phone call or email, Sherlock could wait another few days for John to improve. He couldn’t be certain that Moriarty was truly out of the city - or that he would stay out if Sherlock left John vulnerable.
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Re: Venture wants ALL the crossovers. 4/??
Date: 2011-03-21 07:26 pm (UTC)He had investigated Dresden, of course. He had lived in Chicago for several years, before which he had lived in a number of places, including Missouri, a small Illinois town a few hours from Chicago, and several orphanages. His parents had both died early, as had his first adoptive parent. His years with the Ragged Angel Investigations had been very standard PI work, though there were a few occasions when he seemed to have demonstrated a touch of brilliance in locating missing persons.
It was after Dresden left Ragged Angel that things got a bit stranger. He had an entry in the phone book - the paper phone book - under the category of “wizard” and the Chicago police had occasionally requested his advice. Sherlock wished he had been present for these events - the second hand reports were uniformly useless. Sherlock would have thought Dresden either a madman or a fraud, but he knew that neither option would have put Dresden in the position to demand favors from Mycroft - and moreover, the man Sherlock had met did not fit either category.
There were a few pieces that stood out. A video of Dresden on a talk show, weirdly fuzzy in video quality for something he had obtained directly from the television station. A cell phone camera, even more blurred, that showed Dresden and something, which Sherlock would have dismissed as cheap special effects had the video file not been found under several layers of security in Dresden’s confidential FBI file. But Sherlock didn’t have enough data to put together a real picture, and he hated to make hypotheses without facts.
If Dresden had the time to wait on a physical letter rather than the more immediate phone call or email, Sherlock could wait another few days for John to improve. He couldn’t be certain that Moriarty was truly out of the city - or that he would stay out if Sherlock left John vulnerable.