Chapter 1:
"Damn it, Lestrade. I don't need ties", Sherlock complained as he fiddled with his cufflinks and set Lestrade to speaker on his phone,
"This is your big night, Sherlock", Lestrade replied on the phone, "you wore a tie when you got married."
"Yes, I wore a fake tie", Sherlock said as he turned to face the mirror.
A year from that day was the wedding of Sherlock and his beloved partner Jane Watson. He had felt the pressure pushing upon himself. For this night, he had tried to look different that he had been to impress his wife. But everytime he had tried to change something about himself, Jane somehow stops him and says, "I married you for a reason. So don't change anything." Sure, it calmed Sherlock down a bit.
On Valentine's Day (a few months after they were married), he went into all the trouble of making a small explosive that would release pink paint once it had detonated. As he carried it upstairs from St Barts, the small explosive had detonated and had painted the stairs in an unsual shade of baby pink. After the little accident, most parts of his clothes had been covered in pink. It had made a fairly good laugh out of Jane when she arrived home from work. The next day, he decided to buy a bouquet, a bottle of wine and a Lady Antebellum CD. They spent the night having a romantic homemade dinner (thanks to Mrs Hudson) in 221B Baker St and dancing to songs from Lady Antebellum.
For their first anniversary, Sherlock had asked Lestrade to help him make a suprise celebration (since Lestrade has already had some experience with it) in which Lestrade accepted gratefully. Sherlock had put Lestrade in charge of the planning while he goes around London taking orders for equipments and decorations of whatever Lestrade said is required, since Sherlock also wanted to take a little credit for helping. Unfortunately, for some parts of the process, Sherlock and Lestrade often argued about some of the decisions. But with a little advice of bonding by Mrs Hudson, they continued the anniversary plans without a single disagreement. Jane, however, did not know about the plans. Sherlock often goes out during the day, claiming that he wants to have a one-on-one talk with Lestrade so that they could get along well and that he plans to do it by asking him to have lunch together. Sometimes Jane asks if she could go with them, but Sherlock insisted that she should still continue working on her job as a doctor, since she would be paid in a fairly good price that's enough to pay for their apartment rent.
What he has really been doing was coming over to St Barts and work on decorations with Lestrade, since they had planned to have Sherlock and Jane's anniversary in St Barts. Lestrade had asked Sherlock why he had planned their anniversary celebration to be in St Barts. Sherlock swiftly replied, "It's where Jane and I first met, isn't it?" Lestrade gave a small chuckle and headed back to work. They decorated the entrance of St Barts in gold ribbons that stand out like a golden snake, in which Sherlock had said it was to compliment Jane's hair. The patients in the hospital didn't have to ask Sherlock what the decorations were for.
Sometimes, when Jane asks Sherlock what they would plan to do on their anniversary, Sherlock shrugged casually, in which Jane waves him off and rolls her eyes.
On the night of their anniversary, Sherlock had asked Jane to wear the most beautiful dress that she could find, as long as it still made her look like herself and not somebody else. Jane had decided to wear a simple white dress with a black belt complete with cream colouredheels. When Jane had asked Sherlock what she should do with her hair, Sherlock simply replied, "You'll look good with your hair down." Before they left, Sherlock asked Jane if she could sit down first. Jane gave him a questioning look, but as a former marine, she was smart enough to figure out that Sherlock had been planning something. As Sherlock shows her a black satin box that he had been holding (in which Jane thought the box had cufflinks) his hands started to shake. Jane notices his shaking hands and takes out her hands to rest on his in order to stop him from shaking nervously. Her fingers entertwined with his. One of her fingers gently stroke the wedding ring on his finger, which he had never taken off since they got married.
"What's inside the box?" Jane asks as he looked up from the box.
"Why don't you open it and see for yourself?" Sherlock smirked.
Jane takes the box from his hands and opens it slowly. The look on her face was something that Sherlock would never forget. Her left hand covers her mouth as she stiffles a sob, while her right hand pulls out a golden necklace, with an ornament shaped like a heart. She noticed that it was a locket and opened it. Inside of the locket was a picture of them on their wedding day. Beside the picture, there was a sentence engraved into the locket. "I would marry you all over again, Mrs Holmes," it gently stroked her arms as she sobs quitely in happiness.
"Thank you, Sherlock", Jane said as Sherlock stood up and helped her put the necklace.
After they had finished, Jane pulls Sherlock in for a passionate kiss.
Meanwhile, Lestrade was impatiently waiting outside of St Barts, accompanied by Molly Hooper, who tried to entertain him with stories of the victims from the previous cases that they had worked on. A bit like Ducky Mallard from NCIS, don't you think?
"Lestrade, have you been listening to me?" Molly asked as she waves her hand in front of his face to get his attention.
"Yes, I have", Lestrade quickly lied, "poor man, his wife and his children must have a hard time dealing with his death."
"I was talking about a woman", Molly corrected, "so you weren't listening to all of my stories?"
"I, uh", Lestrade struggled, "not really."
"Then what did you bring me out here for? It is rather chilly", Molly said as she wraps her jacket aroud more tightly.
A few minutes later, a cab had arrived, which made Lestrade relieved.
"Where the hell have you been?" Lestrade asked Sherlock as Jane paid for the cab.
"Sorry for your impatience, but this is the anniversary of me and my wife", Sherlock replied, "I ought to give my lovely wife a little gift before we head off, surely you can relate to that, Lestrade."
"Sherlock", Jane warned him like always when his arrogance started to show.
Lestrade sighed and led them to the entrance, along with a forgotten Molly Hooper behind them. As they opened the door, guests turned around to face them and started to cheer. Sherlock entertwined his hand with Jane's. Guests started to congratulate them as they followed Lestrade towards theelevator. As they waved goodbye, the scene started to freeze. Sherlock was dumfounded for a few seconds, and looks at Jane, who seemed to also show the same reaction. At first he had thought that he was dreaming, and that he was the only one who was not frozen. But Jane takes a step forward and looks back at Sherlock. Lestrade was frozen, showing a wide smile. Sherlock follows Jane out of the elevator. On the entrance were people frozen in position and confettis flying in the air, never coming down.
"Mr and Mrs Holmes", a voice appears from behind.
Sherlock didn't have to turn around to know who it was.
"Savannah", Jane whispers to herself.
Sherlock turned to face his old nemesis and pushed Jane behind him.
"Sorry I didn't invite you," he said in sarcasm, "but then again, weren't you busy killing people?"
"I don't kill, I get revenge", Savannah replied as she walked towards him, her brown hair swaying here and there.
"So you're going to kill us?" Sherlock asked.
"Oh, goodness no," Savannah chuckled, "in fact, I will do something far worse than to kill you."
As Savannah clicked her fingers, the room started to spin and people started to dissappear. Sherlock tried to reach for Jane, but like the other people, she started to dissappear. The next thing that Sherlock knew was that everything turned black.
