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dissatisfaction. Not that it would change anything.
If she couldn't stay with Myron, then she'd stay where she
wanted.
    Sebastian had just
pulled up the board they used to plot her novels and work out
character issues when a phone buzzed.
    “It's not mine,”
she said when he looked at her.
    “Oh. I guess it
might be mine, but only a few people...” he trailed off as he
rummaged through the papers on the desk, roughly where the sound
had come from. A few seconds later he pulled out a small black
phone that looked like it had seen better days. He tapped at the
screen a couple of times and then raised his eyebrows.
    “Apparently, I'm
to forbid you from staying in London and send you home to Bath,” he
said, sounding very unthreatening. Amelia frowned but didn't
comment. “I take it we should discuss your suitcase now?”
    She sighed and sat
down in the nearest chair.
    “I'd already
assumed he'd asked you to leave. I take it that assumption wasn't
wrong.”
    “No, not at all.
You're almost never wrong.”
    “Well, true, but
very occasionally I end up surprised. Where are you going to
go?”
    “You're not going
to insist I go back to Bath?” she asked, taking a good look at him.
He grinned.
    “Of course not. Do
you want to stay here?”
    “Really, you
wouldn't mind?”
    “Not at all. I
take it you were thinking of a hotel, then?”
    She nodded.
    “Definitely stay
here. It will annoy my brother and you'll have better company.”
    She laughed at the
logic, but found it suited her mood. As she watched Sebastian go
back to the whiteboard, she also realised it gave her an
interesting opportunity.
    Myron was
meticulous, and she'd only found that one piece of evidence that
the Holmes brothers were immortal as some part of a freak accident,
but here in the younger brother's house everything was chaos,
possibly well organised chaos, but chaos nonetheless. More evidence
was probably somewhere to be found in the room she sat in now. The
next time Sebastian was out solving some kind of case, she vowed to
try and find it.
    Knowing a secret
of Myron's and Sebastian's, and keeping it, might just show Myron
how serious she was about being in his world and being trusted. It
wouldn't make him love her, but all the emotions and decisions that
came out of love were based on trust, and, as of now, he still
didn't completely trust her.
    Amelia continued
to let Sebastian help her with her book plot until he had grown
bored and she could curl up and write somewhere. Not long after
that, he decided to leave the house and go find an answer on some
case he was dealing with. It was something to do with a botched lab
test, and the police had asked him to step in and help. Not the
kind of case she'd normally chip in with, and as a result he didn't
ask her if she wanted to go as well.
    Having no idea how
long he would be gone, Amelia only waited long enough to hear him
go out the front door and call a taxi. She then hurried through to
his bedroom. Being careful not to disturb anything she didn't need
to, Amelia looked around the room first.
    Using her phone
camera, she then took photos of the few areas she wanted to look
in. A box on one of the shelves by Sebastian's bed looked like it
might contain something useful so she snapped a photograph of where
it sat and then lifted it down.
    After placing it
gently down on the floor, Amelia pulled off the lid. There was an
old microscope inside. With a sigh, she replaced the lid and put it
back. Once she had it where she thought it used to be, she pulled
up the photo, held it up beside it and examined the differences. A
minute later, after a few tweaks of one corner, it was back in
exactly the same place.
    She spent the next
hour moving around Sebastian's bedroom in this fashion before she
looked in less obvious places.
    As she found a
chamber pot under the bed, Amelia wrinkled her nose. It looked like
someone had used it at some point, but long enough ago it didn't
smell any more. In a box tucked away