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[if_inconvenient]

When Sherlock walks into the Biology classroom, a few minutes early as usual, he is thinking about last night. It's a bad time for it, but he is hardly going to start thinking about Biology until it is absolutely necessary.

He takes his usual seat and settles in to await Miss—to await Bella.

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Bella is running low on options.

The sad fact is, solving mysteries requires resources. The more complex they are, the more resources are required.

Bella's mystery-solving resources are: herself and her ability to think; the sum of money she did not end up having to spend on a car; the Internet; the library; Charlie.

Her ability to think is unhelpful without fresh material. She's exhausted what the library has to offer and if the internet has anything relevant, it's well-hidden from search engines. Her money is too small an amount to do anything useful in this instance, like function as a bribe or fund any real travelling; beside which, she'd rather save it in case she needs it for something more important. Charlie is likewise a resource to be held in reserve - she can get him to answer questions he shouldn't sometimes, but only if she is very careful about how and when and how often she asks.

She hasn't given up yet. She's too fascinated to give up. Someone just springing into existence, an exact physical copy of someone else - how could she give up on that?

But she's hitting a lot of walls that she lacks the ability to make disappear, and eventually she'll have to admit that it's either give up or find another resource.

All of which flashes through her mind, briefly, as she enters the Biology classroom and takes a seat next to her partner.