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[ Sherlock nearly passes this by because he has too much to focus on and he doesn't need a babysitting job on top of everything else. However, he cant bring himself to ignore it as there's no telling what kind of person this kid could end up stuck with. ]

[ Ugh. he's going to regret this. ]

I don't know if you'd be interested, but I am fairly new here so having someone that's a little more familiar with the area might be helpful. It's a beneficial situation for us both that way.

You're not a criminal, right?

No, of course not. [ Occasional breaking and entering notwithstanding. ] I'm actually a detective.

[Well now, that was interesting.]

What kind of detective? Are you planning on joining the police force here?

Consulting detective. [ He says calmly. ]

I'll occasionally work with the police but I prefer to do things my way. Not every case that comes to the police is interesting. That won't bother you, will it?

[This was really starting to get interesting.]

Not at all! The person who takes care of me at home is a private detective that sometimes consults with the police. And I've met a lot of other detectives too.

But if you only take the interesting cases you must be a really skilled detective. What kinds of cases do you take?

[ Well that's a coincidence. ]

All sorts, but generally I prefer the more bizarre cases that not even the police can solve.

Are there a lot of those in England?

Yes. Most of my clients come to me when they feel that no one else will help them. You'd be amazed at that Scotland Yard will turn down.

I don't know. A lot of people come to Uncle now instead of the police. Some of the cases that come that way are interesting.

He must be a fairly well known detective then.

A few other things you should know, I like to play the violin when I'm thinking and there will be times where I don't talk for several days on end. Also, back at my flat I often performed post-mortum experiments-it helps me with my work.

Fairly well known, yes.

[Conan didn't feel like getting into the whole Sleeping Kogoro thing right now. He listens intently to the rest.]

I can deal with all of that. I kick a soccerball when I want to think, and I probably won't spend that much time in the apartment.

What are you trying to learn from the experiments?

Depends on the case I'm working on.

None of that will bother me either, which sector are you in?

Right now? Central.

Oh, that's convenient, so am I. The apartment's a bit empty at the moment but you'll find it at [ Insert Address here. ]

If you'd like, I can meet you there in half an hour.

Okay! I know where that is. I can be there by then.

Good. We can discuss details then. [ He's just going to treat this kid like a very small potential roommate because in all honesty he's not too sure how kids are supposed to be treated. ]

[ He snaps the feed off because ~~he has to have the last word on everything damn it.~~ he's still busy doing mundane things he doesn't really care about the apartment is, as he'd said, a bit empty and should be furnished. ]

[ In the half hour it takes the kid to get there Sherlock has already built a table which is sitting in the middle of the room. Off to the side is an armchair with a few books stacked up on it, and a bookcase. When he said 'a bit empty' he wasn't kidding. ]

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[Exactly half an hour later, there is a knock on the door. ]

[ A smaller table than the first one is only half built when the knock comes on the door and Sherlock peels himself away from his furniture building and moves over to the door to pull it open. He's punctual, at the very least. ]

[ Once he pulls the door open he gets a good look at the kid, noticing immediately that something isn't adding up. He looks like a child, yes, but he's not dressed as one-the watch on his left hand doesn't have a brand name on the inside face, there are four red triangles to indicated where the numbers go, and there is a small hinge on side that suggests the top of the watch flips up. What for? The next suspicious piece of clothing is the red shoes on his feet. Brightly colored like a child would prefer but there's no indication of brand logo on the shoes either which suggest they are custom made. Another off thing about them is the white circle on the side, it looks a little too stiff to be just a random design and seems much more like a dial? Third, the belt he's wearing is also custom made, the buckle has three separate dials, but for what? And finally, the oddest part of his wardrobe was the fact he's wearing suspenders. ]

[ Of course though, he doesn't voice any of his concerns and just gestures for the boy to enter. ]

Sorry about the mess. As I said, still new.

[For his part, Conan quickly makes a number of observations as he looks up at his new potential roommate. Chemical stains on his fingers and calluses on the tips, most likely from the violin he had mentioned. Rolled up sleeves revealing drug injection sites, although not recent. A smoker, although also not recently. An expensive suit, although badly fitting. Most likely his family had money, although he held little interest in it himself. And from the way he reacted to Conan, he was not someone accustomed to dealing with children.

Which all added to up to someone very interesting.]

That's okay! The last place I stayed at was an apartment over a cat cafe.

[ ~~Doesn't he remind you of someone, Conan?~~ ]

[ Sherlock notices those sharp little eyes moving in the same way his do upon meeting someone for the first time. He's not too concerned about the visual clues that are left out in the open though and doesn't make any indication that he's noticed and just sort of scratches absently at the side of his head before shutting the door once Conan is fully inside. ]

Good. My room is to the back, the other is yours if you want it. Now, is there anything that you need to know about me that you haven't noticed?

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~~[Not at all. That guy is fictional.]~~

[Conan laughs as he tucks his hands behind his head.]

So you really are a detective. Most people don't notice me observing them.

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I've been at this much longer than you've been alive. Of course I'd notice. [ The question was now if the kid had noticed him observing or not. ]

It's not often that I meet someone that's actually capable of it though-so let's hear it. What have you observed from me?

[ It was time to see if this kid was actually capable of observation and deduction. According to his device idea this was the Conan kid that Tony had mentioned. What a strange stroke of luck that he'd need a place to stay. ]

That's not the only thing you noticed, right?

[For a moment, as Conan stares up at his new roommate, he allows a part of his true intelligence to show past his childish mannerisms.]

My observations? I'm just a kid, you know. So I'm not an expert at this yet. But you work with chemicals, don't you? You used to smoke and use some kind of injected drug, although not recently. Your family has money, but you don't have interest in it yourself. And you haven't met many kids. You already told me that you play the violin, so there's no need to mention the calluses on your fingertips.

[ Admittedly, Conan did much better than Sherlock had expected him to do. He'd expected the child to make rudimentary deductions-simple things that were obvious to even to someone like Lestrade-something like deducing that he'd just been building furniture or had recently had to endure a shopping trip. These were deductions were pin-point and of the same type that Sherlock himself would make. ]

[ But now it's all too obvious that this isn't a child at all, which of course explained the discrepancies in the child's wardrobe. ]

Impressive. [ He offers quite simply. ]

Yes, I've noticed several things about you-including the fact that you're hiding your real age.

[If first graders were capable of having heart attacks, Conan would have had one in that moment. For a brief, brief moment the panic shows on his face, before he wrestles it down and conceals.]

That's a strange conclusion to come to, isn't it? Why did you say that?

[ Well, he hadn't expected that. ]

Do you really want me to point it out? First, we'll start with your shoes-red and bright like a child might like but there's no brand printed anywhere on them-that suggests a custom design but there's something off about them-the small white circle on the side. Just part of the design? But it's too stiff and sticks out just a enough that it seems more like a dial. Moving up, your belt is, once again, custom made which wouldn't be that suspicious but you're also wearing suspenders-are you really that concerned about your pants falling down? But the most damning bit of evidence is your watch. It's a regular analogue watch with no numbers to indicate time. You're trying to pass yourself off as what? Six, Seven? No child that young is that good at telling time.

And then you went and confirmed it all by the look on your face. [ He pauses, looking the kid over again but differently this time. ] You're in trouble, aren't you?

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Conan was both reluctantly impressed at the skill of this guy's deduction and horrified at the use to which he had applied it. He grimaces.

"It seems like there's no point in denying any of that."

He wasn't about to try denying something that had already been deducted. That would be just more suspicious for someone of this level of deductive skill. However, that did not mean he intended to offer up any details.

Good. [ He nods in response before glancing over at the half built table. He should probably finish it but now his mind is buzzing and it mgith irritate him. ]

As long as we understand each other.

But I will need to know two other things, whatever it is that you're hiding from, is it anything I should know about? Is it something that can reach you here?

[ He'll ask more questions later but for right now he just needs to gauge the threat level. ]

Conan is silent for a moment, calculating exactly how little he could get away with explaining.

"Any danger is in the place I came from. It is possible that it could follow me here, but not likely."

He does not answer the question as to whether it was something this guy should know about. The answer was obvious enough.

The answer is indeed obvious but the problem is that it's clear their obvious answers are different. Conan states that it could follow him here which tells Sherlock that is, in deed, something he should be aware of. However, it's obvious to him that Conan isn't going to give up that information any time soon.

"If it should find its way here and you feel that it is a threat to the general population then you are to notify me immediately." He decides on a compromise. It's only an issue if it's an immediate threat and right now, whatever has this kid running scared, isn't anything to be concerned with.

"I'll let you keep your secrets until it's necessary that I know them." Or until he thinks it'll be easier to pry them out of the kid.

"I will tell you if it becomes relevant."

Conan had no intention of ever telling him the full story.

"Sure." he nods in seeming agreement. "But only on the condition that I get to decide when it's relevant. At the moment-you're absolutely right-it isn't. If it isn't likely to become relevant then there's very little sense in my wasting my time."

Except that curiosity was nagging at him as it always did whenever faced with something interesting. Luckily, Conan's reactions were enough for him to work out some kind of vague notion of what was going on with the kid but he didn't have the 'how.' It was so far beyond his comfort zone in science and logic that he didn't have a chance of deducing it like he did most everything.

"Somehow I get the feeling that you're not the kind of person that often wastes time."

But as much as Conan would like to object, he had been rather neatly cornered. He couldn't object to the condition without explaining his reasons. Which would completely invalidate the point of not sharing any details of his situation.

His lips twitch upwards in the smallest of smiles at that comment. Seems this kid catches onto things quickly.

"Not when there are so many other questions to occupy my time with at the moment." With any luck it'll be a long time before he gets bored again.

"Questions are the one thing this place has in abundance."

Conan's list of things to investigate grew by the day here.

"So what should I call you, Mr. Consulting Detective?"

"So I've noticed." Is Sherlock's response, watching the "child" closely.

"For now, just 'Mr. Holmes' is fine."

Holmes? A consulting detective named Holmes? That was an interesting coincidence, but then it was a fairly common name.

"Okay, Mr. Holmes!" Conan slips back into his usual childish mannerisms as he responds. Habit was a difficult thing to break sometimes.

"Was there anything else?"

"Yes. As a matter of fact there is," He states. "Since we're both in agreement that you aren't actually a small child please try to avoid using a facade within these walls. It's annoying to me and can't be healthy for you."

"Fine," he says crossly. "Provided no one else is in the apartment, I'll try to refrain."

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