upstairsfromreality

Joan had been in a hostage situation before, but found the thought no comfort. Her last captors were pros. Her efforts to assist them , to make them see her as worth keeping alive, had ended in them shooting the man she tried save.

This time, her captor denied wanting anything she could provide. Her referral to a colleague was treated as a joke. The gun was just as loaded as the time before, Sherlock was on just as tight a deadline. But Joan knows that Jack is not Marchef. She believes the right words can bring them out of peril.