As John stood at the door of his safe house, the bag of groceries dropped from his hand. All the furniture and objects in the house were strewn everywhere- books were littering the room, sofas were overturned, and the curtains were ripped.
A large man dressed all in black – including a ski mask over his face – sat calmly on an upturned table.
"Hello, Dr. Watson," the man said in a high voice. He was obviously changing how he sounded. "I have a message for you from Professor Moriarty. He says, 'I'll be seeing you soon.'"
With that, the man lunged towards John, and the doctor felt something hit his head as blackness overtook his vision.
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As soon as John woke up, he called the police. Taking a deep breath to steady himself, he sat down on the sofa and pinched the bridge of his nose. How had this happened? He hadn't been gone for that long, and this house was made to prevent something like this.
When the police pulled up outside, sirens blaring, John stood up, wiping his sweaty palms on his jeans and walking outside to meet them.
A special team had come out, because he was under a protection program. A nice woman questioned him while the rest went over the scene with a fine-toothed comb. Then, they all walked through the house, trying to see if anything was missing. As far as John could tell, nothing was.
John was sent to another safe house as a precaution. It was in a much more rural area, and was a bigger house. It smelled of fresh paint and carpet shampoo, and looked, for all its security, like a normal house. But it wasn't home.
John felt terrible. He was jumpy and didn't want to leave the house. John barely ate, and got little to no sleep. John's heart always seemed to be pounding in his ears. He couldn't stop thinking about what the man had said. Moriarty would be 'seeing him soon.' John didn't want to have to be protected, he didn't want to be kidnapped, and, most of all, he didn't want to be lonely anymore.
John sighed and laid his head in his hands, tangling his short hair through his fingers.
He'd never been so afraid in his life.
