Mary Morstan

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> *'Every movement I made was entirely random, every new personality just on the roll of a dice!'* - **Mary Morstan**
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# Early Life

## Childhood

Rosa Himmel-Franz was born on January 13, 1374 in Baltimore, Maryland. She was an only child whose parents died when she was 15. After being a ward of the state for a year and a half, Rosa was recruited by Hetty Lange to train and eventually join the CIA.

# Mid Life

Rosa used many names over the years, including Rosamund Mary, but in 1399, she settled on "Mary Elizabeth Morstan" from the gravestone of a stillborn child, in order to hide her true identity. Mary is the name she stuck with for the rest of her life.

## Career

Mary became a trained assassin by the age of 21, working for the CIA.

She was cunning and calculating, a tactical adept. She was also a markswoman, an excellent shot with small handguns, showing reflexes and perfect timing, able to shoot a hole in a fifty-pence coin when tossed in the air. She also had a photographic and extensive memory. She is also able to mimic different accents.

## Marriage

Mary worked as a nurse in the same clinic as her future husband John Watson, whom she met sometime after his best friend Sherlock Holmes' supposed death. They had been together for thirteen months before John proposed.

### Proposal

John planned to ask Mary to marry him shortly before Sherlock's return, he took her out for a meal and brought a ring, however the meal was interrupted by Sherlock just as John was about to ask her. When John finally saw that Sherlock was alive the horror on Mary's face was obvious, as she knew just what Sherlock's "death" put him through. Despite being together for less than two years, Mary was more of a serious girlfriend than the other girlfriends John had and he proposed to her soon after the interrupted meal.

### Wedding

Mary married John on the 18th May, at St. Mary's Church in Sutton Mallet, Somerset. Her wedding was tumultuous and she received a possibly threatening telegram from CAM (who could be Charles Augustus Magnussen). Her first dance with John as a married couple was a waltz written by Sherlock. She was revealed to be pregnant during one of Sherlock's speeches at the wedding.

## Parenthood

Six months later at Christmas, after a period of separation between Mary and John, John told her that he did not think her past was his business but that her future was his privilege. Mary, now known to be pregnant with a girl, was incredibly relieved. John admitted he was still angry at her, but the two remained together. After Sherlock kills Magnussen, Mary and John see him off in an emotional farewell when he is being exiled and sent on a dangerous mission as part of his punishment. However Sherlock ends up being flown back in when images of the deceased Jim Moriarty start appearing around London, indicating the late master criminal may still be alive.

Mary gives birth to a healthy baby girl, named Rosamund Mary Watson, after her prior self. John originally wanted to name the baby girl Catherine, but eventually agreed with Mary’s choice and reasoning.

Sherlock, Molly Hooper, Mrs Hudson were named as Godparents.

## Death

Alas, Mary is tracked down by a member of the assassin team she was part of and is forced to leave John and Rosie behind whilst she takes random trips around the world, a new country, a new identity. Eventually, she is tracked down by Sherlock and John, but also Ajay, the fellow assassin she was running from. The three escape.

Mary meets Sherlock in an alcove to show him her past. She knocks him out using some sort of drug and leaves after he has seen the real Mary Watson. A government secretary, Vivian, gave the order in a fateful mission in Georgia (the country, not the state) that cost the lives of half of AGRA, Mary's former assassin team. She then shoots Sherlock, but before the bullet could get to him, Mary intercepts it and dies from the bullet wound. John doesn't show up until she is shot, so he blames Sherlock for not protecting her and the two are left on bad terms.

### Aftermath

Not long after, Sherlock receives a video message left for him by Mary, begging him to save John Watson.

While on the trail of Culverton Smith, Sherlock and John are dealing with the aftermath of Mary's death; Sherlock getting hooked on heroin and John hallucinating Mary and lying to his therapist, and all the while avoiding each other. He initially believed that Sherlock was only going after Smith in a delusional fit from excessive drug use and, in a fit of frustration, attacks him in the hospital morgue and blames the consulting detective for Mary's death. Later, while searching through Sherlock's flat, John finds Mary's video message on the fireplace and realizes that Sherlock put himself in danger on purpose to help the widowed doctor recover. He manages to reach the hospital and prevent Smith from strangling Sherlock, who also got his confession saved in a recorder hidden John’s old walking cane.

While recovering, John was also making regular visits to Sherlock's flat, having forgiven him for Mary's death and acknowledging that she made her choice to save him and no one could make her do anything. He also confesses to a hallucination of Mary that he cheated on her via text and subconsciously decides that he needs to move on from her death, weeping in front of Sherlock who goes to comfort his friend for their loss.

After confronting Eurus Holmes and sending her back to Sherrinford, Sherlock and John received another video message from Mary, stating that she knows what they could become because she knows who they really are, the best and wisest men she knows who succeed when all else fails.

## Family

### John Watson

Mary Morstan and John Watson met while they were still under the impression that Sherlock was dead and while they had not known each other for a particularly long time, they loved each other enough for John to propose to her and Mary to accept. They eventually got married, and John also told Sherlock that both he and Mary were people that had changed his life completely and that they were the two he loved and cared about the most. Sherlock also figured out that Mary was pregnant with John's baby. Their relationship remained stable until John heard Mary profess to having been an assassin, that she had been the one to shoot Sherlock and that everything he thought he knew about her past had been lies (something she hoped he would never find out). John got very angry with Mary and she was prepared for him to leave her, a thought she could not bear. However John eventually chose to accept that Mary had lied to him and not to have every detail about her past revealed to him, along with the fact that he must be attracted to danger as he had been drawn to people like Sherlock and Mary. John told her that the problems of her past were her business, but the problems of her future were his privilege. John threw the USB drive containing information on Mary's former identity into the fire, watching the flames consume it. Though he was still disappointed in her, they stayed together and loved each other. Mary was mentioned by Magnussen later as being John's "pressure point".

## Friends

Sherlock Holmes
Shortly after they first met Sherlock performed a series of deductions about Mary, which revealed that she was clever, a nurse, linguist, short sighted, romantic, had a cat, wore size 12, was a disillusioned Liberal Democrat, bakes, had a secret tattoo and an appendix scar, and that she was a "liar". However, Sherlock did not reveal any of these deductions to anyone.

Mary was initially shocked when Sherlock revealed he was alive but did not react as strongly as John did, and told John that she liked Sherlock when they were alone together. Mary and John originally had to look after Sherlock, getting him out of the house and so on, showing that Mary cares for Sherlock, possibly as an "extension" of her love for John. She is fairly friendly towards Sherlock, considering his supposed psychopathic tendencies and the difficulties in making friendships these bring. He was the best man at her wedding to John and she even seemed to want all three of them to dance together. However Sherlock felt troubled when he realised Mary was pregnant, meaning she and John would hardly need Sherlock around with a real baby on the way. Mary was considering coming to Sherlock as a client about her case with Magnussen. She is still not averse to hurting him, as shown when she shot him, though killing him would take it a step too far (showing a care not usually shown by assassins such as herself). She also purposefully shot Sherlock in a spot where it wouldn't surely kill him and called an ambulance right away, making sure he would be hospitalised and that his life could be saved. This made Sherlock defend her actions, though he admitted that she gave him mixed messages. Sherlock was less concerned about the fact that she was a former assassin than he was about her lying to John. But he reconciled with her just like John did and when he shot Magnussen, he exclaimed "Give my love to Mary", as this was something Mary wanted done and Sherlock had vowed to do anything for the couple, as he cared so much about John. He was pleased to hear Mary say that she would make sure to keep John in trouble when Sherlock was going on exile.

### Rosie Watson

Mary didn’t get to know her baby girl for very long before she was killed. Despite their brief time together, Mary knew her daughter would be loved and cared for. Rosie grew up hearing stories about her mom, and admiring her.