User:Najawin/Sandbox 3
Erasing Sherlock
Plot
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.
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.
Mrs. 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.
