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Are you entirely sure you know what you're doing?

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No.

I'm sorry?

They aren't. They never are.

Next question.

All right. Who are you who knows so much about everyone's writers?

Mmmm.... no. Close, but no.

The next question is how, how do I know they aren't sure they know what they're doing. Particularly in your case.

I wonder that you bothered to let me pose a question if you already know what you're going to answer.

But I'll bite. What's wrong with my writer?

It isn't so much your writer. Although I wonder why she would feel compelled to pick up a simple schoolteacher. [More to himself:] Especially one whose eyes are too big for her face...

I'd hardly have called you a holywood beauty yourself.

[ooc: if you're keen to have him deduce things about her, her backstory is the same as canon!Mary's: brought up in india, schooled in england. dad died when she was a teenager and she hasn't got any extended family.]

[One corner of Sherlock's mouth twitches. Smirk or frown? Anyone's guess.]

Well, I'm not planning on marrying anyone.

[ooc: cool, thanks! I've also been going with the idea that he has meta/foreknowledge. if that wasn't obvious by now, heh.]

If that's how you usually greet strangers I'm not surprised.

[ooc: IT'S ALL FINE. :'D ALSO she is pre-meeting everyone so there is no nothing yet :3]

[Strangers. Heh.]

Sherlock Holmes.

[Suddenly curious.] Not the same Sherlock Holmes who solves mysteries on the internet?

I solve crimes which then get written about on the internet.

You look different without the hat.

Which is the point of the hat, I suppose. I'm Mary Morstan.

Mary Morstan, primary school teacher. Born in India, but you moved back to England for school. Your father's dead and you haven't got any brothers or sisters - no extended family at all, in fact.

How- [She's simultaneously shocked and amazed] I see your reputation isn't exaggerated.

I notice. It's my job.

Which means you look down on those of us 'humble schoolteachers' who don't notice.

It's quite rare that they do.

You're new, then?

Very new. And wishing my writer had let me be, though I suppose everyone feels like that.

I cannot say I do. It is preferable to having no voice at all, which was the case before I was--what do they call it? 'Picked up'.

Mary Watson, by the way. Very pleased to meet you.

It seems very inconvinient to be running around after someone all day.

Mary Morstan, delighted.

[. . .]

That's very curious. My maiden name happens to be Morstan.

It is? How very curious.

Do you mind if I ask if your family has any ties to India? I was born there and my father died there a number of years ago. He is- was the only family I have.

Perhaps they are operating under the misapprehension that imitation is the highest form of flattery.

I wouldn't put it past her.

That is a fair question.

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