The Man With The Umbrella

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Considering that the final problem was beginning to unfold and Amelia was working into her eighth month of pregnancy, she wanted nothing more but to go back home, to London and basically attempt to pick up where she left off.

Allison, after having a food fight with her husband, Robert; had no issue with Amelia going back to London under the conditions that she had Merlin with her and made her point across to only go back home if she goes undetected with a new name.

Of course, Allison and Robert wanted to keep in touch with Amelia and visit when they could. Allison was bursting to meet the famous Viola.

Amelia saw now as her time to shine, so without much more prodding, she changed her name by law to, Misses Aurora Delilah Australis Holmes. Of course, she'd still be known as Amelia to those who know of her privately; family and friends but she wanted a new beginning in time for her son to be born.

Jolene made sure that the referral to change Amelia's name was seen to straight away considering that Amelia was still irritated with her.

Irene had a studio apartment in Eaton Square in the Belgravia neighbourhood in central London and with little persuasion, she decided to offer the place to Amelia as a sign of peace and tranquility considering the way herself and Jolene had acted in the beginning.

Amelia didn't need to worry about furniture considering that the place Irene had was already furnished. So instead, a week before she travelled back home; Merlin and a team of agents underneath his belt ship everything she had to the place in central London in time for Amelia's arrival, more importantly two canvases of artwork would be there in time for her to pick up where she left off at Kingsman, Cornwall.

Before she left London, the day her death was instructed to happen and commence; she had been working on a painting. A portrait of herself in one's powerful aura and glory.

The Ice-Queen.

The other two paintings she had been working on over the period of emotional months away from home; she had painted with colours linking back to a frosty blue of her Ice-Man, Mycroft Holmes.

The second canvas was a portrait of Mycroft sitting in a chair fit for a king with Amelia standing on the left of him on her side holding her baby son with no face painted as of yet and Viola standing at Mycroft's right with a hand loosely holding his own against the arm rest.

It was in few words, a family portrait that Amelia yearned to have.

***

The peculiar blonde was weary as she set foot out of London train station but she was no longer the woman, Katie-May perhaps, to the woman she was from when she left.

Considering that she was heavily pregnant and heavily guarded by agents from under Merlin's belt and security under Anthea's watchful eye, it changed her physique completely.

As she left central London's train station, so did twenty other agents undercover as tourists, teachers, priests and other people who held high jobs and passions in their dilemma.

It took only a few minutes if so, Amelia wasn't really paying much attention before she found herself walking through the threshold of her new and hopeful temporal home.

No sooner later after she settled and was finished discovering the studio flat did someone or rather a group of people show up knocking on her door...

Merlin acting as butler, dressed for the occasion, walked into the living room to alert Amelia. "Misses Holmes?"

Amelia looked up from her working fingers knitting a black deerstalker hat and smiled. "Yes, Merlin?"

"You have guests."