[BBCSherlock-Xover] Circus Spy

Chapter 12 Act.12-End of the text

Act.12

Through the monitors, Mycroft easily recognized the voice.

Mycroft sat on the sofa, recalling that evening at that year, when he brought Greg Lestrade into the Circus and introduced him to everyone.The pair of polite but tightly clasped hands, the midnight phone call and the coins constantly tumbling in his hands flashed through his mind.

Then he stayed at the scene where he was dismissed by the boss that day, Eric couldn't hide the sympathy and... pride on his face.

For a long time, Eric and Greg have been friends, and he feels nothing. He has bullied Greg a lot, and he needs a suitable friend to help him relieve him. Not every time the teasing after the bullying works.

But he was still uncomfortable.

So much so that he couldn't look directly at Eric all the time.

Otherwise, the boss should have been vigilant when he first mentioned that there was an insider five years ago.

Sometimes, the more conspicuous something is, the easier it is to be overlooked.

Eric Lanshere.

***

Sherlock leads people to arrest Eric.

On March 3, Eric was sentenced to deportation for treason.

Of course, he was not imprisoned for life because of the mediation of Russia, which made great concessions in the exchange of spies.

Holding a small black umbrella, Mycroft came to Eric's temporary custody.

Eric was playing with the coin in his hand. When he saw Mycroft coming, he smiled at him and flicked the coin in his hand to Mycroft. Mycroft took it and looked at it carefully in his palm.

"If it didn't fall into your hands, how would you confuse me?"

Eric shrugged, leading Mycroft, and the two entered the room. "Taking a step by step, Pete's weakness lies in the dispatched agent. I originally wanted to use Sherlock to make public the affair between Pete and the defected agent. He is more or less to blame, but Sherlock is very smart. Loki is too Conceit. You are my only obstacle, but without that coin, you really are not easy to be caught weak point."

"Greg is not a weakness."

"Yes, but enough to bother you."

Mycroft didn't deny it.He took the towel from Eric and shook the raindrops on his shoulders.

"Why?" Why betrayed the country, betrayed the Circus.

"Do you think your Circus, your country is something good?" Eric leaned against the wall and smiled. "Remember the Baghdad bombing in 2003?"

Mycroft nodded, and from then on, one of the original Big Four was replaced by Rocky, and Charles was no longer able to perform missions.How could he forget?

Eric will naturally not forget that he had already intercepted the intelligence that the Iraqi rebel group was trying to attack the UN special envoy, and he reported it to the boss and the CIA contact personnel, but they did not expect the explosion to come so suddenly.

He felt that he was sorry for Charles, who had ruined an excellent agent ever since.He continued to investigate the organization with a sense of guilt, hoping to catch them all and avenge Charles.

However, he did not expect, "The Americans knew the specific date of the attack and the target was the UN ambassador, but they still let the bombing succeed because the Americans did not find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They Unable to escape the salivation of the United Nations, they need a chance, a sacrifice, to save their reputation."

They are always victims of politics.

"The situation has become very dirty." Eric can't forget the secret agents who have been killed for so many years because of this inexplicable reason, and he can't forget that Charles suddenly rushed out to block him and Charles' firm expression during recovery training Eyes full of confusion and despair.

"How good is Russia? They are all the same." Mycroft looked at Eric lightly.

Eric froze and didn't speak.

Mycroft pulled out a chair and sat there.

"He met you before he went to Hungary?"

"Yes." At the mention of Charles, Eric's eyes softened.

"why?"

"..." Eric didn't answer.

"To warn you? Because deep down in his heart, he has always felt that you are a traitor." Eric remembered the sad and disappointed eyes of Charles at the club that night.

"You know that too?" Eric asked Mycroft back.

Now it was Mycroft's turn to be silent.

After a minute, Mycroft said quietly, "How do you know about Hungary?" This is the only thing he can't think of so far.Charles couldn't possibly tell, and only the boss and Pete knew about it.

"Peter has a problem. He likes to write people's names." Eric smiled.

That day in the stone room, he was almost late, with a chill all over his body, and he didn't want to contaminate the weak Charles, so he sat opposite him, next to Pete, and the Hungarian general was impressively written on Pete's open notebook Although it was just a name, he still vigilantly thought of the connection between them, so he hurriedly contacted the Russians, but he did not expect that it would be Charles who went to connect.

"Charles is not dead, you confessed it."

He used the entire Hungarian intelligence network to make a deal with Russia that Charles must live.

Eric didn't answer.

***

Pete Sullivan was accused of incompetent leadership and demoted because of Eric.

After investigation, Medelev, the cultural counselor of the Russian embassy in the UK, was investigated as a KGB agent and was repatriated. Russia also formally apologized to the Queen of England for this incident. punishment.

Mycroft was reinstated and took the seat the boss used to take, presiding over the weekly meetings.

At the meeting, Pete sat in the first position, looked at the computer, and was about to report some information, when the computer received a message intercepted by hackers, Pete raised a corner of his eye and raised half of his eyebrows.

"Hey, dear, the dog food is out, bring some back?"

"Can't you use some normal communication tools?"

"No, it will leave traces."

"What brand."

"Is it really your dog? What can it do without me?"

Pete raised his eyebrows again. Fortunately, his computer is not plugged into a projector.

"Buy whatever you want, anyway, it loves to eat whatever I give it, isn't it, my little baby?"

……

Pete pressed his forehead, modified the parameters of his firewall settings, and finally calmed down.

"One?" Sherlock came to the balcony. The light rain finally stopped today, and the dark clouds were also receding. Rocky leaned against the wall, unable to see his joy or sorrow after being punished.

"Hmph." Loki glared at Sherlock, and took the cigarette in his hand.Loki watched Sherlock light his own, and was about to give him some, but Loki dodged it, grabbed the one from Sherlock's mouth, put it in his mouth, took a sharp puff, and then blew the smoke out. to Sherlock's face.

After the smoke cleared, Sherlock saw Loki smiling evilly.

Director Lestrade has been extremely busy recently, and all his subordinates are surprisingly stupid. They can't do a little thing well, and the new secretary makes him speechless. It takes 20 minutes to make a coffee.

"Anthea?" Commissioner Lestrade called twice, but no one answered.

Suddenly someone came in, Director Lestrade put down the documents in his hands, rubbed his face with his hands, "Thank God, my coffee finally came."

"I'm sorry to disappoint you." The person who came was not Anthea, Director Lestrade suddenly looked up with a look of disbelief.

"Mr...Mr. Holmes."

Mycroft smiled with calculations on his face, and Lestrade suddenly felt that he was not the chief of the London Police Department of the British Empire, nor was he the boss of the Circus, but the Circus that liked to trouble a small detective 15 years ago. The leader of the action team and his bullying game object.

"As I said, you'll keep it safe, but you won't listen." Mycroft held out the coin.Then he took the hand that Lestrade extended.

***

"Hey, you bought cat food, okay? Are you really a computer expert?"

"What does this have to do with computers?"

"What's the relationship between dog food and cat food!"

"It will eat it."

"will not!"

"Then you eat it."

"Pete Sullivan!" FDR picked up the two cushions on the sofa and threw one towards Pete, while the other grabbed the other and jumped behind the pillow.

Pete took the pillow and blocked FDR's subsequent attack. He blocked it with his left hand, and on the side of his shoulder, he knocked FDR down and sat on FDR.

FDR yelled loudly, you learned melee combat behind my back?

Pete smiled, he can't keep falling in your hands.

Sherlock lit a cigarette with his collar turned up, looked up at the plane that had just taken off, turned around and saw Rocky leaning against his car with a half-smile.

Eileen was sitting on the far away plane, smiling slightly and taking out the photo in her handbag. In the photo, Charles was sitting in a wheelchair and basking in the sun and fell asleep. Eric kissed his forehead gently, smiling from the bottom of his eyes Unprecedented tenderness.Irene forced a wry smile, then stuffed the photo into an envelope and wrote "Mr. Lefroy".

***

Eric stood behind the wire fence outside the house, looking out at the lush maple trees and the deciduous grass that had accumulated over the years.He likes summer. Although many things happened in that summer, most of the time, they are still some good memories. He saw Charles coming from a distance, and he smiled at him.

Thank you, Charles.

He knew what the Russians would do to him if he was exiled, and he knew their interrogation methods, because it was he who had taught the Russians to use Loki's methods.

He knew where Charles was coming from, he had been the best sharpshooter in the Circus.

He smiled at Charles, and Charles smiled at him too, but his slightly squinted blue eyes were full of mist at this time.

Charles left a tear, and in the same spot on Eric's face, a drop of blood.

In July of that year, there were many suicide bombings on subways and buses in London, England.

Since then, counter-terrorism has become the sole focus of the Circus since the Cold War.

END.