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| ==Erasing Sherlock==
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| ===Plot===
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| It's Wednesday, and [[Rose Donnelly]] has her half day on Wednesday. The detective that she cleans for entertains a client in the morning before going out, prompting Rose to follow him on her day off. He travels throughout the city, hitting up pawn shops, talking to informants, and even picking some pockets - all the while she trails in the distance. Eventually, however, he realizes that someone is following him and he calls out to her, suggesting whoever it is come out so they can chat. In doing so, however, he draws the attention of some nearby drunks who chase him off.
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| A few days later the detective, Holmes, mentions to his associate, Watson, that someone had been following him on that day - the most interesting thing about the scenario being that the culprit was wearing an old pair of Holmes' boots. Rose is moving throughout the room completing chores, and Holmes notices that she was moving as if her feet were hurting. She's asked to leave the room, but she sneaks back to the door to listen in. Holmes says that he doesn't think she was responsible, but it's given him the idea that a woman might have been following him, there was something awkward about the footprints. Rose returns to her room and hides the boots, deciding to dispose of them better as soon as she can.
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| Mrs. [[Hudson (All-Consuming Fire)|Hudson]] was ill the next morning, so Rose was left to make breakfast for the various boarders instead. While she was doing this, [[Jack Hudson]] asks her if she wants to go to Oxford Music Hall on Sunday, but she turns him down - she has meetings with her informant on Sundays under the guise of the Widow Tory. Rose takes up breakfast to Watson and Holmes who are discussing the details of a case when she spies the headline of the newspaper the two are reading. It mentions the death of the usual cook Mrs Hudson has on hire, and not just her death, but the subsequent violation of her body. Watson and Rose are aghast, though Holmes discusses the potential ways in which such a thing could make sense pathologically before remembering that he has other things to do that day and heading out.
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| That coming Wednesday Rose heads to the local post office to mail the boots off to America, as far away as she can from Holmes, but finds the postage too expensive. On her trip back she notices somebody of Holmes' general build spying on her, who she confronts. When it turns out to not be him, she leaves him be, eventually disposing of the boots in a random pile of rubbish.
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| That Sunday, Rose, in her disguise as the Widow Tory, met with her information broker, [[Shinwell Johnson]] in the [[Holy Cross Church]]. Johnson passed on details of Holmes' childhood that he found to her, and also relayed that Holmes had been inquiring into the past of a certain Rose Donnelly. Back at Baker Street, Holmes mentions that the cook's father has been arrested in relation to her death - a scapegoat to make the police seem competent.
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| On her next half day Rose decides to play guitar in the park, and while she's out, Holmes searches her room. She's alerted to this by small incongruencies when she returns. When she comes out of her room, she encounters Watson, and she weaves him a tale of how Rose Donnelly was taken in by a married man, had a child out of wedlock that died, and how her family just can't take the shame of it happening again, how it's hurting her family to have Holmes ask about her. Watson agrees to speak with him. Holmes comes home that night, and Rose confronts him, asking if he went through her room. Holmes is evasive, and asks if she's spying on him. Indeed, he's convinced that she's spying on him. Watson interrupts the two of them, and Holmes promises to behave himself. Rose becomes a little worried, but assures herself that Holmes won't find anything - there really was a Rose Donnelly from Yorkshire who came to work for Mrs Hudson, but upon arriving in London she had been diverted. Found dead a week later near Hanover Street. In Nine Months Rose Donnelly will be officially dead once again, with only minor changes to her timeline. Reflecting on this, she finally relents to Jack's attention and decides to go to the music hall in order to taunt Holmes.
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| ===Pages to create===
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| [[Rose Donnelly]] as a redirect page
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| [[Jack Hudson]]
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| [[Shinwell Johnson]]
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| [[Holy Cross Church]]
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| [[Gospels of Saint Paul]]
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| ===Notes===
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| Holmes's full name is Edmund Sherlock Holmes, he was born in Febuary of '57. His sister [[Genevieve Holmes]] was 10 years younger and mentally challenged.
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| The book mentions the [[Gospels of Saint Paul]], but no such thing exists. A previous reader of this copy was very emphatic about this fact and wrote this several times in the margins. (I guess it's another name for a few different things according to google. But it's not a real thing on it's own? In context it seems to refer to Timothy? idk.)
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