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| =Erasing Sherlock=
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| ==Plot==
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| ===Part 1===
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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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| On their way back from the music hall and dinner, Jack insists on walking rather than taking a cab. Rose is rather drunk and clumsy, and he attempts to rape her. Holmes interrupts, and tells Jack that he must leave for Australia immediately or Holmes will report him to the police. Holmes calls Rose a cab and the two depart.
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| In the coach Rose tries to once again assume her role as a frightened maid, but Holmes is having none of it, he's been watching the entire night, including how during dinner she had ordered in Italian. No, he refuses to believe that she's a servant by anything but choice. She admits in a roundabout way to being there to spy on him, but assures him she just wants information, no harm is meant. They arrive back at Baker Street, agreeing to keep up appearances for the sake of the game, as it were.
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| Holmes invites Rose to play music with him that following Sunday in front of an audience of Watson, who can sense a spread of tension over the entire affair. Later that night Rose and Holmes meet in a torrid blaze of passion, before resolving amongst themselves that it must only happen the once. Of course, it continues to happen for the next two weeks. Rose tries to justify her lack of objectivity to herself, saying that she's getting good data, even though she can't publish for other historians until [[2018]], but she realizes that she's compromised.
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| As Holmes leaves one night, [[Thomas Corkle]], another boarder, sees him leaving. Corkle enters Rose's room, politely insisting that the two of them should talk, and explains to [[Gillian Petra|Gillian]] that he's a friend of [[James Moriarty|Jimmy Moriarty]]'s, sent back to keep things moving smoothly for her research. He insists that she hand over her research notes for safekeeping, since she's now so close to the subject, and suggests that they use more advanced technology to spy on Holmes' interactions, bugging his sitting room. Gillian ushers him out, giving him the research and agreeing to copy what notes she has left in code, before bugging the sitting room the next day.
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| ===Part 2===
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| Christmastime passes, and with it a morose pall over the house. Holmes is moody, upset over Gillian tossing him out, Mrs Hudson upset by her son having left so abruptly. Watson tries to keep everyone's spirits up, but it comes to naught. Meanwhile, Gillian and Corkle spend their time eavesdropping on the duo, seeing what information they can get. In doing so, Gillian overhears a conversation with [[Lestrade]] about a burglar and who the police have arrested. Holmes insists they have the wrong culprit, instead they should be looking for a lesbian posing as a maid somewhere. Lestrade refuses to listen, and leaves.
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| In February an old woman, the Lady [[Holbrook (Erasing Sherlock)|Holbrook]] comes to call, asking for Holmes' help. Her grandson, Lord [[Merrill Holbrook]], has vanished. There's scandal afoot, as his recent wife, [[Henrietta Barstow]] has been entirely untouched by him in their nine months of marriage, and as a result her father has begun annulment proceedings, which will finish in three months time. Holmes is deeply intrigued by the situation, especially as the doctor who discovered that Henrietta was still a virgin, [[James Moriarty|Jacob Armitroy]], has vanished. He agrees to take the case.
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| A few days later Holmes and Gillian reunite, and in that intimacy Gillian tells him her name. Holmes attempts to contextualize what he knows about her, talking about how much he enjoys a mystery. Gillian ultimately professes her love for him, which he rejects, saying that he can't love something he knows is a lie. As a result, she begins to tell him some of the truth, that she's researching him for her doctoral thesis. She tells him no more than that though, and embarrassed, asks him to leave.
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| ==Pages to create==
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| [[Rose Donnelly]] as a redirect page, or maybe as a page for the original person. idk yet
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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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| [[Holbrook (Erasing Sherlock)|Holbrook]]
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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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