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I M Sorry Sherlock-Personal Narrative

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"I'm sorry Sherlock-" John starts. "Where is it?" Sherlock asks, his voice returning to its dry and detached self. "It's over there-" Sherlock aimlessly shoves through the reporters swarming over the body, disappearing into the mass. John pulls me aside, worry etched across his face. "How is he?" I pause, considering how much I should tell him. Right after Sherlock put down his phone he ran and didn't stop until we arrived here. At the time I didn't ask for any details, I didn't need to. Looking at his face was enough to know the details weren't pretty. There was a shift in his character, a total change in appearance and in manner, and I recognised that same fear I had seen once before, he's hiding something again. I break away from John, I'm not going to tell him about this yet. Even if I wanted to I can't, there's still too much I don't even understand, too many missing puzzle pieces for it to make any sense. While I feel bad considering John and everything there's too much I don't know, too many secrets and lies to uncover and know the truth …show more content…

Even though this isn't the first time seeing a body like this, the sensation is still the same. A cold chill runs through me, my stomach ties into a knot and my legs are weak as I slowly back away. I want to look away again but I can't make myself do that either, so I stare, trapped in a limbo. I can hardly recognise him, or what's left of him. Really, the only way I can tell is by his clothing, it's the same outfit he wore the last time we saw him. Charlotte's dad's face is more massacred than the other's we've seen before. His eyes are gouged out, but with precision, like a surgeon did it, and his mouth had been in such a way it makes him have an unnatural Cheshire Cat-like grin. The limbs disgustingly twist into odd and awkward angles on his body; and instead of a masterful blood carved M, a single knife stabs the centre of his chest, holding a

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