greatestdefective | Telepathic IC 'Inbox' and Messenger Bird Reception

[He gives Holmes a peculiar look]

Your partner, I was under the impression it was John H. Watson, but... [He crossed his arm.] The way you treated his death rather casually in the deduction theater earlier, I feel like that's not actually the case.

What- Watson? [For a moment, Sherlock looks pretty baffled.]

[Aaand then he just starts to laugh.]

Haaa ha ha ha ha haa! Like in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? Tut tut, Mr. Naruhodou! That's only fiction, you know! Ha ha ha haaa!

Eh!? [His laughter gives him a start.]

B-But, the manuscripts detailing your adventures that Iris used to write her stories, they were written by Dr. Watson, right? The partner? [Look, those were the facts presented to him. He didn't even need to use the fictional works as an example.]

The manuscripts... Hum... The case files inside the trunk? They were written by Iris's papa, of course! My partner! [He wags a finger at Naruhodou like this is a totally obvious thing, not realizing he's just making the misunderstanding worse.]

...That's what I just said. [Holmes, please. Don't be like this right now.]

So is it really John H. Watson or not?

No, no, no. Whoever told you a thing like that? Was it Iris?

[He figured something might've been up when she started going by the last name of Watson, but to think she's going around actively telling people she's the daughter of John H. Watson... He'd have a word with her about it when he goes back home, but he won't remember.]

Just who is it then!? [Quit beating around the bush already!]

[A quiet sigh escapes him because... wow, Naruhodou hasn't figured it out yet? He thought he was quite clear about it when explaining the Professor case. Well, time to spell it out, then. The pipe is placed in its stand by the ashtray for a moment. He walks across the room to pick up his violin and begins to play a tune similar to this. As he does so, memories of his most valuable friendship begin to flood his mind. The lights dim a bit, a comfortable warmth spreading through the room.]

My partner... came to England sixteen years ago to study forensic pathology. He was a doctor back then, and I was but a mere student working in a hospital lab. However, that's not why we were introduced. He was in need of a housemate, you see, in order to halve his rent. We hit it off right away, despite our differences. I had never met someone so polite, so discreet and so very honest. We became the best of friends. We discussed science, we enjoyed music, we solved the oddest of mysteries... And we danced- oh, Mr. Naruhodou, you should've seen us in our prime. Nowhere in our world could I find anyone who understands my way of thinking the way he does.

[Sherlock pauses, his bright smile weakening somewhat. The lights flicker. Even so, he doesn't stop playing the violin.]

He was with me for six whole years and then... Then he was forced to leave England behind once more. Iris couldn't go with him. He's a professor now, teaching at a university in Japan.

[What is this melody, this performance? There's a different feel to it, like he could really get a sense of the emotions Holmes was conveying about this partner.] (...A doctor studying forensic pathology, who was forced to leave England and return to Japan?)

[Wait...it's a Japanese person? His eyes widen as it finally starts to come together.]

A professor teaching at a university now. He said he had been overseas as an exchange student once as well...

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[He gives Holmes an incredulous expression. Are you serious!?]

Are you....are you saying that your partner is actually, Yūjin Mikotoba!? Susato-san's father!? [He's been right there, under their noses this whole time. What?]

[There's something more to that implication as well, and it's just a double whammy for Naruhodou]

Iris-chan's father is Mikotoba!?

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[How is that a problem? Sherlock sure doesn't see it. After all, he's kind of Iris's papa too, in a way. In fact, if anything, he's more of a papa to Iris because he's been at it for ten years already.]

Mmm, right. He did so wish to take her along to Japan, but he couldn't, obviously. [OBVIOUSLY...] Iris was about a month old when he left her with me. I'm certain that he thinks about her every day, because that's the sort of man he is.

[ FROM SOMEWHERE JUST OUTSIDE THE LIVING ROOM, they can probably hear a certain partner-slash-eavesdropper do a spittake at that confirmation and start coughing, managing to spit out a single addition to this conversation between wheezes: ]

He what—?!

[Honestly, if it weren't for his partner eavesdropping noise, Naruhodou probably would have remained shell shocked a lot longer than he is right now.]

S-So it's really... [He flops back in his seat. He feels like he just opened a whole can of new questions. It's just too much today.]

[Oh great, another one of Mikotoba's adoptive kids overheard that. ...Oh well. If it's something that'll get him into trouble, he'll deal with it if/when Mikotoba ever gets here.]

Really really! Why is that so shocking?

...Well, we were all led to believe it had been Dr. Watson this whole time, and you made no attempt to correct that until just now. [He can imagine Susato's excitement if she knew her father was the real partner to Sherlock Holmes.]

Led to believe? I never led any beliefs like that. You lot just jumped to assumptions, that's all. Aside from that... If I had told you that Mikotoba is Iris's papa, that would've caused problems for him, wouldn't it? To say that he was my partner is to admit to that very same thing. It wasn't my place to speak of it; not with him in Japan and unable to speak for himself.

...Right. [Holmes probably has a point and Mikotoba probably has the final say in this but...]

I hope he tells her someday. The truth will find reveal itself sooner or later, and Iris-chan can be pretty perceptive about things when she wants to be.

He will tell her. One day, definitely. We'll tell her together.

[It's just a very complicated tale. If they could just find out once and for all who the Professor was, that would ease them into it.]

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