The Detectives Daughter

Chapter 82: The Final Problem: Red Beard

Brooke's POV

I felt cold... Cold and wet. With my eyes still closed I shuffled uncomfortably then I hearded water and felt it splash against my face?

My eyes shot open. "Are you there yet?" A voice in my ear shouted making me jump up in freight.

"Yeah, I'm here!" John stated as he too got up.

I looked a John in shocked. "What the bloody hell?" I asked while looking around.

"John, Brooke where are you?" Dad asked.

John looked at me then hugged him. "We're okay, we're together," John told him.

"We're in a well," I stated. "Where are you?"

"I'm in another cell," Dad told use. "I just spoke to the girl on the plane again, we've been out for hours."

John and I shared a confused look... That girl had been up there a while when we first spoke to her and now it's been hours since we last spoke to her, where has she flown from?

"She's still up there?" John asked.

"The plane will keep flying until in runs out of fuel," Dad explained. "Is Mycroft with you?"

"Well he's not in here," I stated.

"MYCROFT?" John shouted up. "MYCROFT?"

John didn't get a reply and fear slowly took over my body, hundreds of questions played in my head: What had Eurus done to him?

"Just keep exploring and tell me anything," Dad told us.

I looked around. "We are surrounded by rocks, hips dip in cold water, we are what ten feet deep in a well and it's dark," I told him.

Dad huffed. "Yes thank you Brooke," He mumbled.

John tried to move around but he just suddenly stopped. "We're chained to the bottom," He stated and began to feel around his feet. "I can feel something."

I watched as John pulled out a small yellow and white bone from under the water; We both shared a fearful look...

"Bones, Sherlock, there are bones in here," John stated.

"What kind of bones?" Dad asked.

I breathed out shakily. "Small bones," I added.

"Redbeard," Dad stated.

Then nothing... Dad had gone off the line... Eurus was still playing this sick, twisted game with us!

John and I continued to pull at the chains looking for a lock. "Why would there be a well in Sherrinford?" Dad suddenly asked. "Why is there a draught?"

"Dad?" I asked.

"I'm home. Musgrave Hall," Dad stated then once again he was gone.

I managed to find my pad lock; I pulled a hair pin out of my hair then dipped under the water sticking the pin in the padlock, I had done this hundreds of times but not under water, so this as very different but with lots of force and wriggling I opened my pad lock but I snapped my pin.

"Did you open it?" John asked.

I nodded while catching my breath. "I broke the pin," I sighed. "I have one more."

As I was about to reach for my hair pin floods of water came pouring onto John and I then Eurus' song began to play.

"DAD!" I shouted in a panic.

"SHERLOCK!" John shouted. 

"I that am lost, oh who will find me?" Eurus sand. "Deep down below the old beech tree, help succour me now, the east winds blow sixteen by six brother and under we go."