It had all started when John had decided to make it his personal mission to force as much information about the solar system into Sherlock as humanly possible. They had been watching – or rather John had been watching whilst Sherlock receded into the depths of his mind-palace as an escape, mans first time venturing onto the moon, when John suddenly gasped and swore loudly, bringing Sherlock back into reality.
"Did you see-" John started and abruptly broke off, frowned and muttered an apology and turned back to the television, picking up a slice of pizza from its box. This behaviour was most peculiar for John.
"John?" Sherlock asked slowly.
"Hm?" managed to say around the mouthful of pizza.
"Care to explain your interruption?" John's eyes found their back to Sherlock. Sherlock couldn't read John expressions which must have been a first – something that had definitely never happened before
"We must kill them all on sight," John's voice was a monotone and his eyes unfocussed, staring but not seeing
"I'm sorry, what?" Sherlock demanded. But before John could even begin to respond, Sherlock had leant forward, the heels of his feet digging into the sofa, and promptly snatched up the remote from Johns hand, ignoring his "Hey!" in protest and proceeded to backwind the film. Sherlock eventually hit 'play' and leaned forward, his arms hugging around his legs which were pressed snugly against his chest.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with the footage.
"Sherlock, what actually are you doing?" John's voice broke into his concentration. Sherlock closed his eyes for the briefest of seconds before responding.
"There is something not quite right," a frown etched itself onto his face "something I'm missing…" it took a further 34 seconds until suddenly the black and white footage of Apollo 11 suddenly glitched and a clip of – Sherlock didn't know what – suddenly appeared.
"You will kill us all on sight," the creature was well dressed in a suit. It had a long light-bulb shaped head and small round eyes sunken into its pale head, almost lost entirely in shadows. The clip seeped to be on repeat. John suddenly gasped and swore.
"I saw this before!" he half shouted leaping to his feet and waving a slice of pizza at the T.V "but then I-" the footage changed back to Apollo 11 and Sherlock continued to stare at John who suddenly looked confused. He looked around himself and sat hesitantly back down on the sofa and began shifting uncomfortably under Sherlock's gaze.
"What?" John demanded "what are you staring at me for?" Sherlock continued to stare at John, his brain spinning at what had just occurred. John had somehow completely forgotten about the creature that had been on the screen. But How? It wasn't possible. Or very improbably. It was one of those very rare moments when Sherlock Holmes found himself completely lost for words, not even having any explanations towards the situation. Also had that video footage been there when it was being recorded? Had it been edited in at a later stage? Had everyone who had watched this clip (millions, if Sherlock was correct) also forgotten. If someone had been so adamant to include such a clip, why had they gone to such extremes to make the recipients to forget? Sherlock's eyes glinted dangerously; ooh he loved a good challenge! The game is on!