So this a little drabble I came up with unintentionally while watching old episodes of Monk. As always I own nothing.
Enjoy
As Adrian Monk watched Patrick Kloster being led away in handcuffs he mused on his own life philosophies.
Adrian Monk was an atheist. He didn't believe in a God of any kind. He couldn't believe in the idea of an all powerful deity letting his wife die. Trudy Monk was a good sweet person; she hadn't deserved to die like that. The day she was murdered was the day any chance of him ever having any kind of faith died.
However Adrian did believe in hell. He sometimes thought he lived in hell, sometimes he thought that he'd been to hell. Las Vegas was close, really close, all those naked women. Or that time he'd been stuck in the nudist's closet, which had been horrifying.
He'd read Dante's Inferno, he was well versed in the nine circles. He believed that the deepest circle of hell was reserved for men who killed their wives.
As Kloster walked past him Adrian smirked but it felt hollow. Yes, he'd kept his word to Linda Kloster by catching her husband but he still felt like he'd failed. He hadn't been able to save her just like he hadn't been able to save his wife.
Patrick Kloster hadn't seen his wife as a person, he'd seen her as a pawn, a chess piece in a game.
So yes Adrian Monk didn't believe in God, but he did believe in hell. And he firmly believed that men like Kloster belonged in hell. And Adrian Monk vowed to keep putting men like Kloster in hell until the day he died.