The fall of Sherlock Holmes

"Goodbye John" a text message came through from Sherlock

My heart began palpitating I swear it was going to stop I almost felt it jump out my throat.

I dropped my coat that was resting over my arm and I ran and kept running until I seen Sherlock standing on that building.

Next thing I seen was him jump and his coat wrap around his face he didn't shout or scream he went silent.

Then a hard loud sick sound of him hitting the pavement. It made me dazed I threw up in my mouth and choked at the thought of what just had happened to my friend Sherlock Holmes.

I seen Mycroft then standing not too far away a tear rolling down his cheek.

"Christ is he dead?" I asked the paramedic that arrived to the seen

"As a door nail" he replied

"As a door nail?" I asked in disbelief

"He is as dead as a door nail" he replied

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The man that seemed to have the answer to everything now left all these questions with no answers behind.

Perhaps left all the answers and we just couldn't think of the questions to which the answers belong to.

Nevertheless he was dead and the pavements and everything just seemed out of place.

After a few hours of crying and feeling sorry for myself I went home. An empty apartment of emptiness and hollowness to which I wasn't sure what to do with.

I opened a bottle of scotch whiskey it seemed easier to drown my troubles than to face them alone.

In the corner of our apartment I seen a silhouette of a man.

"Watson it's me do not be alarmed" the man said with a slight tremble in his voice

"It's me Sherlock" he continued.

"Sherlock how can it be you I seen you jump I seen you on the pavement dead" I replied

"You seen me jump but you did not see me dead" he replied

"Let me explain. You see I did a classic Lazarus stunt" he continued

He explained everything in his Lazarus plan. To say I was fuming with rage was an understatement.

I was glad all the same to know he was alive.

We had a few scotch whiskeys and called it a day.

"Goodnight Sherlock" I said

"Goodnight Watson" he replied

The End.