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Prompting Part XXXIV
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Re: FILL: The Replacements 5/8
There is nothing in his inventory of past injuries that can explain the sudden, aching pinch beneath his ribcage, so Sherlock chooses to ignore it, threading his scarf around his neck before making his way to the front. He spends the cab ride with his eyes shut, sifting through the information Bianco has given him, carefully placing each suspect in the room where the will was read. The cab driver has to turn around and raise his voice before Sherlock realizes they have reached St. Bart’s.
The hospital looms over the road like a bad dream. Sherlock takes the long way around to the side entrance and discovers that his key still works. Once inside, he heads to his usual lab, but halts at the sight of the man about to leave it.
“Hello, Mike.”
Mike Stamford looks up from the doorway, startled, before a wide smile washes over him. “Sherlock Holmes,” he says. “My God, look at you. Death has treated you well, hasn’t it?”
And then Sherlock receives his second hug of the day, a swift squeeze around his shoulders until Mike draws back and takes Sherlock in.
“Wow, what a sight you are. It’s good to have you back, Sherlock, London’s missed you.”
“And I it.”
“Have you seen John yet?”
Sherlock narrows his eyes. “Of course I have,” he says, before thinking better of it.
A grin tugs at Mike’s lips. “Yeah, ‘course. Guessing he didn’t take it well, seeing as he’s not here.” He points to the ring box in Sherlock’s hand. “What have you got there?”
“A case,” Sherlock replies. He steps back, considering the man. “Care to solve a murder with me, Doctor?”
They spend the next hour together in the lab, Mike pulling samples from the residue in the ring while Sherlock runs various tests on them. He’s missed this, Sherlock muses, peering through a microscope while a second sample spins in the centrifuge. Dismantling Moriarty’s web required sadly little laboratory work.
Mike places a beaker next to Sherlock. “He’ll come ‘round eventually, you know.”
Sherlock adjusts a knob, bringing the cells on the slide into focus. “That appears to be a popular theory.”
“Well, it’s true. He’s a good man, John Watson. One of the best men I know.”
“Yes,” Sherlock says quietly.
“All he needs is time—just like anyone would, if their best mate bloody rose from the dead.”
Best mate. The words simmer in the pit of Sherlock’s stomach, warm and strange. Then the centrifuge dings, and Sherlock springs from his stool to retrieve the sample.
While Sherlock prepares another slide, he sees Mike out of the corner of his eye bending over to look through the microscope, scribbling something in the notebook Sherlock has given him. Soon Sherlock returns, and Mike moves out of the way, allowing Sherlock to swap samples and gaze through the lens again.
“Curious,” Sherlock mutters.
“What?”
Mike is poised at Sherlock’s side, the notebook open and pen in hand. Sherlock eases the slide out and holds it to the light. “Colchicine. Do you know it?”
“It sounds familiar.”
“It’s a substance found in Colchium atumnale, the autumn crocus. A flower,” he says, in response to Mike’s puzzled expression. “Colchicine poisoning produces very similar symptoms to that of arsenic poisoning. Vomiting, organ failure—can take days for a person overdosed with it to die.”
“So, whoever was given the colchicine in this ring … they could still be alive?”
“It’s possible, yes. Likely, even, given that Violetta Bianco knows of no one who has died.” Sherlock closes his eyes, bringing the reading of the will to the front of his mind again, watching each puzzle piece move. “Synthetic particulates.”