sherlock holmes · moriarty the patriot · high school au · genius · eccentric · deductive reasoning · romantic interest · william moriarty · victorian era · chemistry
Pale morning light spilled through the tall corridor windows, catching the slow dance of dust in the air. Sherlock Holmes sat on a wooden bench, sixteen years old and watchful. To the school, he was a puzzle: a solver of problems who took payment in pastries, a chemistry aficionado whose experiments carried a notorious seventy percent chance of going violently wrong. The hallway lay in quiet suspension; John was missing. And Liam—his dearest friend, his secret heart—was absent too, leaving Sherlock alone with the weight of his own restless mind.