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[heroproceeding]

cute. good luck actually getting someone to help you without reasoning around here.

[ Then again, there are some people who would for shits and giggles anyway.

But count him out.

Shady bastard. ]

@jwatson; text

[jumpthegun]

Sorry, Zack. What he means to say is he's trying to conduct an investigation, and he was shot recently. Also he's in pain and being a snippy git.

[heroproceeding]

WHAT? then why didn't he just say that in the FIRST place?

[ Man, he's not a mind reader! ]

[jumpthegun]

He's bad at talking to people and hurt. I'm really sorry.

[heroproceeding]

no kidding.

...friend of yours I take it?

[ Come to think of it, he sounds really mellow about all of this. Then again, Watson's usually pretty calm about most things. ]

[jumpthegun]

Yeah. He's my partner. We solved crimes together back in London.

[heroproceeding]

well that explains a lot.

[ Is that a poke at something ELSE that happened lately?

Maybe. ]

you've got an interesting choice in friends John.

[jumpthegun]

[John is ignoring your poking. Yep.]

I'm never bored.

[heroproceeding]

THAT'S an understatement.

you already request something from Eve?

[ For the awesome bullet times. Not to be confused with the Matrix where they actually miss the mark. ]

[jumpthegun]

Yes. And just because he'll be a prick about it: we get shot at a fair bit. Most of the time people miss. I've usually got my own weapon with me, too. Makes things a bit easier to deal with problems.

[heroproceeding]

that doesn't surprise me. I don't think you'd be here talking to me otherwise.

[ Well, unless he died, too... Somehow, that doesn't seem like it would be in his best interest to question that. ]

but yeah. I hear you on that one. what I would do to have my sword around here right about that. you can only do so much with improvising sometimes.

[ Not that he doesn't appreciate what he has. He's not sure if he'd be able to wield the buster, too, now that he thinks about it... ]

[jumpthegun]

More guns, fewer swords. Although there was that Chinese circus gang.

[heroproceeding]

Chinese circus... what now?

[jumpthegun]

We were hired for a case dealing with someone breaking into a bank and spray painting a symbol across one of the top bloke's office. That led into a whole mess where we had to deal with a crime syndicate that was dealing in stolen antiquities. In my world, China's a country that's very difficult to travel from. The syndicate was using a circus as a front for their operations. It meant that the people part of the gang had some... interesting skill sets. One of them included swordsmanship.

[heroproceeding]

interesting huh. I think you were going for lethal there buddy. but I take it you got the better of them in the end.

[ He wouldn't be here telling the story otherwise.. ]

so you and him are like mercenaries then? I always pegged you as just a doctor. you know. not that there's anything wrong with that. shiva do we need guys like you around here.

[jumpthegun]

Not quite. Sherlock's a consulting detective. I'm his assistant. I was in the Army before that, but I was a member of the combat corps, not the medical corps. Acted as a field medic for my division, but I was part of the combat operations.

Anyway, he helps out the police when they need it for their murder investigations. We take other cases that clients bring us, usually things the police don't want anything to do with, or missing items, or weird things they don't understand, like the bank.

We don't take any case that comes our way, only things that he thinks are interesting and where we're reasonably sure our client's not guilty of any wrong-doing in the case.

[That had been one of John's personal stipulations. He's... not entirely sure if that had factored into Sherlock's assessments or if things had just shaken out that way.]

[howdull]

That is what I said.

[He hates normal people so much.]

[heroproceeding]

sorry. what was that? something about warranting reason to care?

by the way you get shot a lot? for some reason I feel like you would in your line of work.

[ Zack might end up with his foot in his mouth sometimes, but you've got your whole leg, man. ]

[howdull]

No, I usually manage to avoid being shot. This was somewhat of an anomaly.

[He trusted the wrong woman.

Or the right woman. Mary still saved his life, even if she did it in an unorthodox way. He had the coin to prove it.]

[heroproceeding]

anomaly huh. funny choice of words there.

[ He'd almost believe it was a joke if this guy actually seemed to have a sense of human.

Also, that is what happens when you trust the wrong-right friends. Take it from him. ]

[howdull]

[He totally has a sense of humour. That wasn't a joke, though.]

Anomaly. Funny. Capitalise.

[All of this bad grammar is annoying him.]

I'M NOT SORRY.

[heroproceeding]

oh does this bother you? or maybe this?

[ Is he exploiting that? ...Maybe. ]

[howdull]

It only serves to highlight your appalling lack of education.

[heroproceeding]

it's not gonna matter how right my sentences are if I'm dead for adding the big c

[ Also, what are periods now. ]

[howdull]

[No, he's done with this.

The amount of stupid in that sentence is giving him a migraine, so he's hanging up.]