Sheringford, Nova, Luna and Rosie were all sat at the table playing a board game that morning whilst John Mary and Sherlock were in the sitting room. A map of london pinned to the wall as they contemplated possible hide outs for the consulting criminal.

"Sherlock you have mail" Mrs Hudson came bustling in handing a pile of envelopes to him then walking over to the children to make sure they were ok.

Sherlock looked through the letters unintrested then he stopped staring at a bulky envelope that caught his eye. There were two words wrote in the bottom left corner of the yellow envelope 'miss me?' He instantly discarded the rest of the mail and ripped open the envelope to reveal 3 items. "Mrs Hudson can you please take the children to your flat please, I dont think this is something that yhey should see."

Mrs Hudson nodded and ushered all 4 of them downstairs leaving the adults alone.

"Sherlock, what is it?" Mary asked with concern.

He took out the items in the envelope and placed them on the table the first an engagement ring, not a very expensive one but it has been well worn and much looked after. The second item a gold wedding band and the third a dvd with the words play me wrote on the front.

Sherlock stared at these items when he started to speak. "The rings are Louise's" there was silence until he spoke again picking up the dvd with trembling hands "John do you mind?" He handed the dvd to john who took it and placed it in the dvd player ready to play.

As the screen flickered to life the picture became clear, Moriartys image came on the screen as he began to speak.

"Hello Sherlock, time for a game to continue and to make sure it does I have something of yours, lets just call it my little insurance policy." The camera swung round and showed a young woman tied to a chair. Trying to hide her face. Her brown hair falling forward to hide herself away. "Dont be shy sister dear say hello to that retched husband of yours".

The woman lifted her head to face the camera, she had a stearn look in her features althogugh ther was hurt in those green eyes. "Hello Love". She stuttered eyes fixed on the camera.

Moriartys shrill laugh invaded our ears "im gonna let you deliver a message to him" he slapped her hard across the face her expression not faultering one bit. "Now read" he shoved the paper in her hands and locked the door behind him.

"All it says is make your final goodbyes". She took a deep breath "ok here goes, Sherlock the past few years have been dificult to say the least. We have had our ups and downs, but hey what couple hasn't ....  remeber when we took that trip to Northumberland and stayed in that cottage set on a charming little street just me you and the kids for the weekend? Thats 1 of my most happy memories and the last time we all stayed under 1 roof. if I dont make it then i want you to know that I love you Sherlock Holmes and its been an honour to be your wife, you gave me something that I never thought I would have a family. Its still hard to believe that our 3 kids turned out the way they did with us as parents, promise that you will keep them safe." A tear ran down her face dripping off her chin "I love you and always will, his given you 12 hours to find me but im asking you use those 12 hours to get our children to safety and dont look for me."

She tilted her head up and looked full in to the camera "Sherlock theres one more thing i have to say, Vatican Cameos. Goodbye my love". And with that the screen went blank.

John turned to Sherlock who was lost in thought "oh shes clever" Sherlock muttered under his breath.

"Sorry have I missed something?" John asked confusion spread across his face.

"As always Watson you see but do not observe, she sent us her location" he took a pen and paper "she blinked on certain words, its a technique we developed just incase we found ourselves in a situation like this, if it was a phone call we would change the pitch of our voice ever so slightly on certain words and for a video we blink on certain words" he finished writing and showed us the paper.

It read
Sherlock, Northumberland Street 113 I love you, 12 hours to find me, Vatican Cameos my love.

"Im glad to see that our stratergy works now we need to get her." He pulled his coat on and wrapped his scarf around his neck. "Come on we have no time to lose."

The 3 of them told Mrs Hudson of the plan and she said she will look after tha children, with that the trio went out into the street and hailed a taxi heading to Northumberland Street and hopefully Louises location.