Prompting Part XXXIV

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Fill: No Refuge from Memory: 17a/22ish

[cbzofdeath.livejournal.com]

Part 17: Phone Calls

Sherlock decided to pursue the first lead Fernandez gave him: the father. The evidence didn’t completely add up, but it was a good starting point. From there, it was easy to determine who he should speak to first. He cadged Harry’s number from the emergency contact list on the lease.

The first time he called, he got her voicemail. He left a message. She phoned back within the hour, her upper-class accent tinged with worry. “Is it John? Is he okay?”

Sherlock replied, “John’s fine. I’m just helping him do a little research into his background.”

Her voice became guarded, “Okay, what do you want to know?”

“What was your home life like after your mother died?”

She grew annoyed, “I wouldn’t know. I was sent to boarding school a few months after the funeral.”

“But you must have gone home for breaks.”

“No, John told me to stay with friends if I could. The house was not a good place to be back then.”

“What about Christmas? You had to go home for Christmas.”

“No, I usually spent the break with my friends or my cousins, and for Christmas Day, John would get one of his friend’s older brothers to rent us a hotel room. We always did Christmas just the two of us.”

“Didn’t you think that was strange?”

“Of course I thought it was strange, but I was young, and you know how determined John can be. Anyway, I saw the house after Dad killed himself. It was no place for a child.”

“What was it like?”

“It was a mess. There was rubbish all over the place. You could see where John tried to keep things tidy, but he was just a boy. There was only so much he could do.”

“Was there anything that stuck out to you? Anything that seemed odd?”

“Most of it was just the usual mess you would expect to see in a drug addict’s house, but I remember in the basement, there were a bunch of car batteries and weird electronic equipment.”

Sherlock paced with excitement. The culprit was the father. Open and shut. God, this was easy. Now, he just had to find proof.

“What happened to all of it?”

“I don’t know. My aunt went through it after Dad died. His stuff was kept in an old shed on her place. When I got the money, I moved it all to a storage facility here in the city, but I never bothered to go through any of it.”

“Would you mind if I take a look?”

“I suppose not. What are you looking for?”

“I’m not sure, but I think I’ll know it when I see it.”

Sherlock hung up the phone