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"I don't know who you are and I found you in my bedroom. Explain."

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"I'm - I'm Soph. I'm Sophia."

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"I don't know anyone named Sophia."

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[...Sherlock? Bella's gone nuts.]

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[In what way has Bella gone nuts?]

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[She - she doesn't know who I am, I thought she was fooling the first few times she asked me who I was and what I was doing in her room but I think she's serious. She's interrogating me in some random - place - it's cold as balls - she says she doesn't know anyone named Sophia.]

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Sherlock sighs.

He teleports to the current location of Bella and Soph.

"Dear Juliet," he says, "describe to me the problem."
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"Do you know who this is? Because I don't, but she was in my room anyway, and there was an extra bed in it, and stuff that doesn't belong to me, and I know I haven't been home as much since I stopped needing to sleep but I'd think Charlie'd tell me before taking in a boarder."

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"I'm Soph," says Soph plaintively.

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"She's your fucking sister, love."

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"I don't have a sister. I have never had a sister. I am an only child, like all the other Bells except Aurora!"

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Soph starts rubbing at one of her eyes unhappily.

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"You are not and have never been an only child," says Sherlock. "And if we're going to have this conversation, I suggest we have it indoors."

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"She was for, like, a year," says Soph.

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Bella looks skyward. "What, you want to go talk about this in a Jarvis, I have no idea what she is, because she's not my sister, I have a completely coherent set of memories from where the perfect recall kicks in all the way through ten minutes ago with no sister, frankly I don't want her anywhere near a being I like that physically can't torch while we can't get Downside."

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"And I have a perfectly clear set of memories from the day I met you that include your sister, and I assume your sister can say something similar, and here she is. Until ten minutes ago you've never had a problem acknowledging her existence. Something has changed, but before we find out what I am not going to advise treating Soph like a hostile fucking demon."

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"Of the two of us I am not the one likelier to be affected by mind-affecting magic!"

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"Fine, then let us extend this beyond the two of us," he says, and brainphones Tony and both Jarvises, with Soph and Bella included in the call.

[Indulge me for a moment: how many siblings would you say Juliet has?]
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[...Is this a trick question?] says Tony. [One.]

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[My sentiments exactly,] says a Jarvis.

[What on Earth is going on?] says the other.
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[I am an only child! I always have been! None of you are mentally opaque, something must have happened to you.]

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[We've met Soph,] says a Jarvis. [You can watch the video yourself. I don't know of any spell both powerful and sophisticated enough to alter my recordings. A mind-affecting spell might alter my personal memories, but the data I have on file is a separate matter, and I'm verifying the records as we speak.]

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[Yeah, she's got a bunk bed in my room too, but why and how would somebody go through my memories - my protected memories - to subtract a sister?]

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"I'm cold," murmurs Soph.

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"If you were my sister I would've wished you up protections, like Aurora gave Lexi, and you would not be uncomfortably cold! We're only in Canada, not the South Pole!" Bella points an accusing finger.

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