Sherlock needed another distraction.
So did Jim. So it was no surprise that Sherlock's phone rang again.
“I'll tell you my plans if you tell
me yours” Jim taunted over the line.
“I don't think it's that easy.”
Sherlock answered. “You've got the other teams busy and you just
need to make another call and they go back to defusing the next
problem.”
“But I'm bored” Sherlock could
almost hear Jim cracking his neck, the way he did on the jewel heist
video. “I think we need to crank it up a notch”.
Sherlock's mind danced over the pattern
of attacks so far. Each one thwarted in the nick of time, but
causing a great deal of temporal instability even in success. It
meant that future attacks at those locations would be less
detectable, and that enough places close enough together were
targeted.
“The Rift.” Sherlock shot back to
reality. “Very good” Chimed Jim. “You know, that USB they have
been coordinating off of, it's not as isolated as they like to think”
A new pattern emerged in Sherlock's
mind at those words. The USB sending back information on the Rift's
activities. Minor disturbances being tracked and analyzed, exploited
and harnessed. Soon it wouldn't be little explosions and murders to
worry about, but the Rift itself going haywire, bringing all of time
back to the 20th century.
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