SHERLOCK HOLMES
221B BAKER STREET
LONDON

11/09/2012

DEAR SHERLOCK,

i can't put this off forever.

moriarty said he'd make a point of telling you what he did to me. i'm sure he kept his promise. but in case he didn't tell you what you deserved to know...

before i begin i just want you to know...i didn't know him when i first met you. i didn't worm my way into your life via some ridiculous plot of his because he wanted me to. i met you by pure coincidence, and became your friend because i wanted to.

it was some time in early 2012, after you met him at the pool, when moriarty found me.

he tormented me. i wish i could use a less dramatic word, but it's the most fitting for what he did to me.

i don't want to go into details. i won't. but near the end of it all, i found out why he was doing it. he saw me as a pressure point, i think. to get to you.

from the start, he planned to someday apply that pressure point.

to kill me.

he wouldn't have done it himself. i don't want you getting any scary images. he made it very clear he didn't get his hands dirty. i'm pretty sure he would have got one of the threads in his web to do it. or maybe he made me do it myself. i̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶t̶e̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶.̶sorry, it's not the time to be making jokes.

when i wrote this letter, it hadn't happened, of course. but i knew it was going to. needless to say, as i write this, i am terrified.

yours, val.