She stays at the hospital long enough to forge signatures on the proper papers that would keep the nurses from allowing Sherlock to leave too easily and allow the nurses to bandage her up. Her own injuries are worse than her initial estimate, but nothing that painkillers and a few stitches cannot handle.
Her plan had been to return to the gas station and rid the area of the evidence of their passage (who would have been surprised that a gas station, its ground saturated with old gasoline, could explode quite so spectacularly?), to get rid of the car, to find new clothes, and...
Well, she had no plan after that. Australia was off the table, although Nassau held a contrary appeal.
It ended up not mattering, in the scheme of things. After the fact, Irene had a very difficult time remembering just what had happened in the hours after she left the hospital.
But within hours, a nondescript youth visited the hospital and left a gift on the nightstand in Sherlock Holmes' hospital room. A familiar piece of jewelry, sized for a woman's hand, resting in the middle of a similarly familiar scrap of black paper, folded into the shape of a lotus blossom.
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Date: 2012-08-19 05:31 am (UTC)Her plan had been to return to the gas station and rid the area of the evidence of their passage (who would have been surprised that a gas station, its ground saturated with old gasoline, could explode quite so spectacularly?), to get rid of the car, to find new clothes, and...
Well, she had no plan after that. Australia was off the table, although Nassau held a contrary appeal.
It ended up not mattering, in the scheme of things. After the fact, Irene had a very difficult time remembering just what had happened in the hours after she left the hospital.
But within hours, a nondescript youth visited the hospital and left a gift on the nightstand in Sherlock Holmes' hospital room. A familiar piece of jewelry, sized for a woman's hand, resting in the middle of a similarly familiar scrap of black paper, folded into the shape of a lotus blossom.