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The Choices Made (Adlock)

Set at the end of The Reichenbach Fall

Motherhood had never been part of the Woman's plan.

For most of her life, she had been focused on survival and domination, and she had pursued both with a reckless frivolity that burned everyone in her path. None of these things were conducive to raising a child.

Her first discovery of the new little parasite she was incubating was not a joyous moment, as it was for some women. 

Her initial reaction was of shock, because she had always been very careful. Meticulous to the point of obsession. Though her work as a dominatrix never involved actual sexual intercourse, she'd had her own set of lovers, both male and female, prior to her acquaintance with a certain consulting detective, and protection was paramount to her.

It must be a mistake. A false positive.

But before the opportunity to analyze how, and which, bout of sexual activity with said detective -- it had to be Sherlock's; all her other recent lovers had been female -- had resulted in this little inconvenience, the dread settled in. 

It was not dissimilar to a wall of rain come crashing suddenly down on her head, invoking a long-forgotten childhood memory of watching little cartoon figures with black clouds above their heads.

Dear God, she was thinking of cartoons. It was already starting.

She drew a deep breath. That felt a little better. 

Perhaps this was not the black cloud she was imagining it to be. Hell, she wasn't even sure if she really was pregnant.

The dread lifted somewhat, eased by practical thought into a small niggling at the back of her head that could be easily ignored. Tomorrow, she would go to the doctor. Just to make sure.

...

Tomorrow, however, did not bring the fair weather report she had been expecting. The moment the doctor walked in with the results, she had known even before the other woman had opened her mouth.

"Congratula--!"

The Woman held up a hand. She didn't even want to hear it. The dread, which until then had been at the back of her mind, came to the foreground and threatened to take over.

But she was the Woman. She was not given to emotion or sentiment. She had already allowed emotion to take over once, and look where that had gotten her -- sitting in a clinic with a foolishly smiling doctor offering her congratulations.

Her brain immediately went into damage control, as it always did when confronted with a crisis. Find the root of the problem, and fix it. 

She quickly went over her upcoming calendar in her mind, and without letting the doctor start a spiel on -- God, she didn't even want to use the word -- pregnancy and pre-natal care, she cut the doctor off with a cold, professional hand and set up an appointment.

The doctor tried to argue, to offer other options, but she was stopped by the calm look on the Woman's face. There was no confusion, emotional turmoil or hysteria there. Only calm decisiveness. She had made her choice.

The appointment was made.

...

There were no major changes to the Woman's routine. At least not at first. No specific alterations or concessions made for the developing creature inside her, except maybe her morning routine was altered to compensate for the absolutely horrid morning sickness.

Then the "morning" sickness turned into "morning to noon" sickness. But still, it wasn't that bad. She had always been good at concealing physical ailments. And tea helped.

But when it quickly became "the whole fucking day" sickness, she had to admit, it was harder to conceal. The tea, which was now unpalatable, no longer helped. She had to scale down on her clients, and cancel various appointments because now she just felt violently ill all the time.

She abhorred it. The wretched nausea, the sweating, the heaving and dry-heaving, the dizzy spells and light-headedness, the weakness. It was all so distasteful, especially for someone who had been so meticulous about her body, and so immaculate in appearance. 

Pain she could handle -- she was a dominatrix, after all; pain was her bread and butter -- but this prolonged, ever-present discomfort was threatening to undo her. That, and the lack of control over her own body, which before had been a beautiful weapon for her.

Still, she took comfort in the fact that this would all be over soon, and she could return to her normal (if it could be called that) life.

...

Three days before her appointment, an article appeared on the British news website she frequently monitored. 

SUICIDE OF FAKE GENIUS

It was accompanied by a photograph of a man in a dark Belstaff coat and a blue scarf lying on the street, face intentionally obscured to spare the readers the man's gruesome, bloody death. But even through the blurring, the vivid red bloodstains on the man's face and on the street he had landed on were evident.

The bile that she had been suppressing all day rose to the back of her throat, and she had to look away to keep from being sick. 

She slammed the laptop shut and tried to breathe.

It took her several long, shaky minutes, but the nausea eventually subsided. Enough, at least, for her to be able to pick up the phone and place some calls. Half an hour later, she was feeling slightly better (physically, anyway), the story was confirmed, and she received an unobscured copy of the photograph.

The nausea threatened to come up again, but she tamped it down with a deep breath, and analyzed the picture as logically and impartially as possible.

It seemed genuine.

The blood was real, and though there was no way to be sure until her contacts at the morgue confirmed it, she would venture a guess and say that it was his. The face, covered as it was with blood, closely resembled his as well. 

But she, of all people, knew how easy it was to fool someone with a pretty face.

And she had seen his work, too. She had seen the cleverly-edited video of her own "execution" that had made its way into Mycroft Holmes's hands. As loathe as she was to admit it, if she wasn't alive and whole -- and now currently carrying evidence inside her body that would absolutely refute her death in Karachi -- she probably would have been fooled by it too if it had been her.

It wasn't real.

It couldn't be. He was too clever, too good of an opponent to die. True, he had a certain self-destructive streak, but there was no way someone as arrogant as he was would ever commit suicide. And certainly not for something they both knew was a lie.

That thought helped her calm down and settled her nerves.

All she had to do now was wait for the video to prove it.

Fifteen minutes later, the email arrived, and she opened the file. The angle of the video was limited to Sherlock alone, as her contact had been focusing on him, and the sound was less than ideal, but it was clear enough that the detective on the roof was speaking to John Watson, unseen, on the street. She could hear Sherlock confessing to the lie the press and the British public had been fed. 

Rich Brook. Reichenbach. 

They both knew it wasn't true. She, herself, was evidence that it was a lie. And yet, here he was, extolling the opposite to John Watson.

"Keep your eyes on me."

That immediately raised a flag. A magician directing the audience to the illusion and away from the trick. The Woman examined the video intently, trying to spot any discrepancies.

And that was when she saw it. 

A glint of sunlight from the roof a few buildings to the right. It only appeared as Sherlock said "Goodbye, John" and hung up the phone.

Before he dropped the phone and jumped, disappearing from her contact's view and the camera's.

Frustrated, and though she would never admit it to herself, more than a little shaken, she played the video again, to the part of the timeframe where she saw the glint of sunlight. She knew what that was.

The reflection from a rifle's scope, revealed only at the last minute before the shot. A shot that Sherlock Holmes's apparent death had prevented.

A sniper.

And it wasn't pointed at Sherlock.

And then she understood.

Sherlock, despite all his arguments to the contrary, was an irrationally sentimental being. He formed emotional attachments to people. 

While between the two of them, the Woman was more attuned to people, it was Sherlock who actually cared for them. When she had been exposed, it was only too easy for the Woman to abandon all ties, including her loyal Kate, and leave her former life. 

Sherlock, on the other hand... He had a whole brood of people he surrounded himself with. The doctor, his landlady, his brother, the detective inspector, his mousy little pathologist. 

If an instance occurred where he was required to give up his life for the few people he cared about, especially if it included John Watson, she had no doubt the idiot would actually do it. Hadn't he already infiltrated one of the most dangerous terrorist cells in Asia to save her life?

Foolish, foolish man.

She stopped the video and closed the laptop.

...

The day of the appointment came. And went.

She stayed home, phone in hand.

It never rang.

_______________

By SorrowsFlower

Yeah, okay, so I made this on one of those “writing game” sites where you “fight” a monster by completing x-amount of words in the allotted time. So my lazy ass didn’t edit, proofread or research any of this stuff like I normally would have.

[ladystylestores]

Your Thursday Briefing – The New York Times

The world is learning to live with a deadly pandemic

China is testing restaurant workers and delivery drivers block by block. South Korea tells people to carry two types of masks for differing risky social situations. Britain is targeting local outbreaks in what Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls “Whac-A-Mole.”

As mass infections strike even in places that had seemed to tame the coronavirus, officials are adjusting to the reality that the disease is here to stay. They are turning to targeted and fast-but-flexible approaches to stop third or fourth waves.

While the details differ, the strategies call for giving governments flexibility to tighten or ease as needed. They require some mix of intensive tracking, lightning-fast response times, border management and constant reminders to their citizens.

Quotable: “It’s always going to be with us,” said Simon James Thornley, an epidemiologist from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. “I don’t think we can eliminate the virus long term. We are going to need to learn to live with the virus.”

North Korea’s backtracking is part of a playbook

Kim Jong-un, the country’s leader, has suspended plans to ​deploy more troops​ and resume military exercises along the world’s most heavily armed border.

His decision on Wednesday came fewer than 10 days after the North blew up the joint inter-Korean liaison office — one of the actions that threatened to reverse the fragile easing of tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

If the flip-flop and de-escalation seem disorienting, remember that it’s long been part of the North’s playbook, our correspondent writes.

The strategy: “When the move is toward peace, the change of tack is so dramatic that North Korea’s external enemies often take the shift itself as progress,” Choe Sang-Hun writes, “even though there is no evidence that the country has decided to abandon its nuclear weapons.”

Young, patriotic and stranded abroad, China’s ‘little pinks’ rethink their country

Chinese students and workers abroad often post online in the country’s defense — in the wake of the Hong Kong protests, China’s handling of the pandemic and more. They are part of one of the most Communist-red, nationalistic generations in decades. Some refer to them disparagingly as “little pinks.”

But during the pandemic, some of them discovered that the government wanted them to stay overseas, leaving them stranded and without answers. Their flights back home were canceled again and again, as they watched other nations’ leaders arrange pickups for citizens. They are, according to our New New World columnist, Li Yuan, questioning for the first time one of their country’s bedrock political principles: National interests come first.

As they mature, she writes, many will become leaders in business, academia and other institutions, and their shifting views could shape China’s relationship with the world.

Numbers: More than 1.4 million Chinese students were living in other countries as of April 2, with nearly one-third in the U.S. It is not clear how many of them have been stranded.

Quotable: “My feelings are increasingly complicated,” a Chinese student at a Midwestern U.S. university wrote on Weibo in mid-May. “The country I loved doesn’t want me back.”

If you have some time, this is worth it

What is owed

The masses who have taken to U.S. streets to protest against racism and police violence are multiracial and multigenerational, helping make this uprising feel different, writes Nikole Hannah-Jones in The Times Magazine. But the support for reform on its own, she says, cannot bring justice to America.

If black lives are to matter, the nation must pay reparations to black Americans, she writes, to balance the assets that have accrued to white people over generations: “Wealth, not income, is the means to security in America.”

Here’s what else is happening

Pakistan crash: The pilots of a Pakistani airliner that crashed last month in Karachi were busy talking about the coronavirus and repeatedly ignored directions from air traffic controllers before their plane went down, killing 98 people, Pakistan’s aviation minister said Wednesday.

U.S. presidential election: Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 14-point lead on President Trump in the 2020 race, according to a new poll of national voters by The New York Times and Siena College that showed broad dissatisfaction with Mr. Trump’s handling of the pandemic and racial-justice protests.

Botched art restoration: Spain’s art restoration experts are calling for tighter regulation of their work after a copy of a 17th-century painting of the Virgin Mary by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was disfigured in a cleaning by a furniture restorer.

Snapshot: Above, the annual celebration of Russia’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Veterans in their 80s and 90s were among the tens of thousands of people who turned out in Moscow, most without face masks, even as their country is suffering from one of the world’s largest outbreaks.

What we’re listening to: This episode of the podcast “Reply All.” Sanam Yar, on the newsletters team, writes: “This episode digs into the trend of black people across the U.S. receiving random, unsolicited Venmo payments from white acquaintances as a bizarre form of reparations.”

Now, a break from the news

Do: Spending some of this season outside? We have apps to help with maps, trails, pit stops and pizza. Try a Duchenne smile, one that lights up the face, now that masks hide our mouths. And for kids in need of outdoor time, even a little goes a long way.

At Home has our full collection of ideas on what to read, cook, watch, and do while staying safe at home.

And now for the Back Story on …

A Russian scientist family’s work

Years ago, a married pair of Russian virologists tested the polio vaccine on their children, who all grew up to be virologists. A side effect they found is now sparking hope for a defense against coronavirus. Andrew Kramer, a correspondent in our Moscow bureau, talked to us about his reporting.

What did you learn from the Chumakov family?

When I talked to one of the brothers, Alexei, he mentioned that another brother was now experimenting with polio vaccine on himself as a potential protective measure against coronavirus. I had read about the tuberculosis vaccine that’s being tried as a so-called repurposed vaccine approach to the coronavirus. I started looking into the polio vaccine in that context, and it turns out there are also some very serious, established researchers in the United States who are also backing this approach.

That convinced me that it was a serious scientific idea, and it was very tightly tangled up with the story of this family.

How would the polio vaccine work as treatment for coronavirus?

The idea is that a viral infection causes a reaction in the body and a release of something called “interferons” that interfere with viral replication. Before the immune system develops a specific antibody, there’s this innate immune system, researchers told me. If you have an active viral infection in your intestinal system, like polio virus, it would release all these interferons that interfere with the replication of other viruses.

Some viruses can have a beneficial effect on immunity, similar to the way that microbes in your gut are part of your natural healthy state.

Why did the Chumakov brothers decide to go into virology?

Peter said when he was growing up, everyone around him was a scientist. He thought all adults were scientists. The story is a little window into a part of the Soviet Union that not a lot of people see: There was a large repressive police state, but there was also a lot of emphasis on science. Epidemiology and vaccine science were valued.

That’s it for this briefing. See you next time.

— Melina

Thank you To Melissa Clark for the recipe, and to Theodore Kim and Jahaan Singh for the rest of the break from the news. You can reach the team at briefing@nytimes.com.

P.S. • We’re listening to “The Daily.” Our latest episode is about what it’s been like to be unemployed in the U.S. for the past few months. • Here’s our Mini Crossword, and a clue: Alicia who plays the piano, fittingly (four letters). You can find all our puzzles here. • Ashley Southall is The Times’s new police bureau chief in New York City.

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