I DO NOT OWN "The Great Mouse Detective" but I DO OWN Kate, Jay, Rose, Lidie, and Molly. Enjoy!
Chapter Nine
Olivia
I was glad to be going to sleep, if I had to listen to them any longer I was going to hurl. Though suppose someday I may be like that towards my suitor...Maybe he'll be fascinating to talk to, someone fun and smart...tall and handsome...oh goodness I'm almost describing Basil...although you know if I was just a couple more years older...No! that's not how I see him at all! for heaven's sake he is old enough to be my brother...or at least an uncle. Besides after tomorrow I'll be back to my ten year old self with thoughts of toys, school and friends.
I went on to pull back the covers as I shake such thoughts away when I noticed my window was open. Strange...I could have sworn it was closed earlier. Something was telling me I needed to get out, but as I reached for the handle I felt myself being lifted off the floor and my voice high pitched as I screamed, watching myself being pulled back and out the window.
Basil.
Kate and I had just made it to our room when I heard a scream. Both of us ran out into the hall to find Mrs. Judson and Dawson out in the hall, meaning it was Olivia. Bashing through the door we found the window open and no sign of Olivia. Kate looked outside and found no trace of her from what she told me, but did however found a note attached to the outside next to the window...with a knife. The minute she finished reading I was starting to head up. I told Kate to stay, but she wouldn't take no for an answer and it was hard to argue when she said: if she's family to you, then she's family to me. I agreed and we took off as I told Mrs. Judson and Dawson to get the police.
Tunnel after tunnel, climbing through the human detective's home just to finally make it to the ledge of the rooftop to see at the end was a tall lean grey mouse in a white button up shirt, black pants and shoes,
with his dark brown hair combed back and blue eyes staring at us as he held onto a tied up and gagged Olivia. Kate and I stepped lightly, not taking any chances that he would do something to Olivia.
"Good evening Mr. Basil...and my my the lovely Kate. I'm at your service."
"Then you can hand Olivia over to us and go away in that case."
"Wish I could love, but sadly if I did that then plan A failed and I'd have to go into plan B."
"Moriarty what is the point of this?"
"Ah, so I see you have been out to see the old rat. Poor old man, got him all riled up I'm afraid."
"Gee maybe it's your face that did that."
"Oh, sass! I like it. Then again...you Mr. Basil are looking pretty scrumptious too. My I should have paid better attention to the news-paper. That photo did nothing for you."
"Kate?"
"He's flirting...with the both of us?"
"Correct Miss Kate. See my plan was to only flirt with her...but I can't help it, I was always...intrigued with the male side of the species. You look like you could be the subservient one. How thrilling, master mind dominating the great mouse detective."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Oh you would beg too."
"Kate, please tell me he isn't saying what I think he is."
"Sorry dear, but he is."
"Oh don't worry Kate...I wouldn't leave you out, after all we can't let the press know of this. So of course we would wed, after all I couldn't break a deal as such as your father had made with me."
"Ha, please. You wouldn't know what do to with me if you had me."
"Oh, but I do know what to do with you. First is to make sure you go along with my plan. After all we wouldn't want Olivia here to get hurt, right?"
"Leave her alone!."
"Oh, affectionate are we? Guess I can't blame you, she is a little beauty isn't she? Though you must pardon me though, I couldn't resist tasting her."
"What did you do!"
"Oh don't worry, nothing too naughty. I only kissed her...though I suppose slipping a berry that paralyzes the body is a bit naughty."
"What!"
I was furious with all of this. How could he have managed to do all this in such short time...and the flirting my god I wished Ratagin would have told us this part about him at least.
"Yes, you see I couldn't have her trying to fight me like she was all the way up here. So at the moment she's only able to stand because of me, giving me such opportunity to feel this now grown woman's body but I am a gentleman at the very least and have not done such things."
"What do you want?"
"You already know Miss Kate...you. Now all you have to do is come over to me, you and I will walk away and leave Olivia here for Basil to get once we are gone."
"What makes you believe I would stand here and allow you to leave with Kate."
"Because how would you explain to Mr. Flaversham that you chose Kate over his daughter as I pushed her off the roof and let her fall. No parent in the world would be able to understand that."
"Basil, wait..."
"Kate?"
She turns to me, looking me in the eyes with a deep sadness in them. No she couldn't possibly be thinking...
"I don't have a choice."
"No, there's always a choice Kate."
"But I wouldn't be able to live with myself if he keeps his word. I can't let him do this to her. Olivia is only a little girl, she never deserved this."
"But Kate..."
"Besides...all I am is a distraction to you...I mean how can I not be a distraction to you. So please Basil, do not do anything, don't follow me. I love you."
I felt her lips and i felt my eyes water. I couldn't believe after everything this mad mouse was going to win. I saw Kate smile a little as she winked at me and turned around towards Moriarty. There I caught it...the knife from earlier somehow now in her hands. I smiled as I realized how she just spoke to me.
Kate! you beautiful genius, oh god please do not let her get hurt.
I slowly walked towards them since Moriarty was too distracted by Kate herself. I watched as she got just close enough for him to put Olivia down near by, but not so that Kate didn't take her opportunity to swipe the
knife at him, making him back enough for her to dodge to the side and grab Olivia as I made a run for it and take one hit to him. While he was dazed I tackled him down to the ground, but he was functioning enough to fight back, taking and giving a blow to each other. At one point I held him off while he sat on me, trying to strangle me.
"You know, I thought I was being nice. Giving you Olivia and everything."
"What makes you think i hold such feelings for her."
"I don't...not entirely. That's why I had also put a love at first sight spell on you two so when you saw each other the first you would fall in love."
"Well it didn't work. I wasn't the first person Olivia say."
"It doesn't need you both to see the other for it to work, just one of you and soon enough the other would follow."
"It still didn't work!"
"What do you think you've been feeling for her."
"The same one I've had since the end of the case with her two years ago... Family!"
I got in a good punch in the stomach and then to the chin and he falls back, close to the edge. I started to run towards Moriarty as he got up to run towards Kate and Olivia. Before he could reach them I shoulder checked him in the chest, knocking him off the building along with myself. Luckily I grabbed the edge of the building and Kate; who seemed to have been moving in low motion as I fell ran over to me to help me up. Once up we searched the area and didn't find him anywhere. I was hoping that maybe he did hit the ground, but my luck as both Kate and I reached the ground outside after carrying Olivia down to our flat for Dawson to look after as we searched. An hour and twenty officers later and there was no sign of Moriarty. We
theorized a few ways he could have survived; Finding another ledge as he fell, somehow surviving the fall and crawling away, having a device that could have been hovering that he used to escape...though we both know the other possibility is somehow creating a portal into her old world and surviving there.
The next day Kate was almost done getting the potion ready when Olivia pulled me over to speak with me.
"What is it Olivia?"
"Did you mean what you said? I mean about me being family."
Well of course she would ask. I never really showed any real emotion about what she meant to me in my life. Can't say I blame her for asking, after all she was only paralyzed, it wouldn't have stopped her from hearing everything. I looked down at her and smiled slightly as I nodded.
"Yes Olivia, I meant it. You, Kate, Dawson, Mrs. Judson, Lidie and your father are the only ones who I consider family. You're all very important to me."
I saw the smile appear across her face as she hugged me tightly and kissed me on the cheek.
"Thank you Basil. I have always thought of you as an uncle to me. Hearing you say that means the world to me."
"Well, family is very important."
"I couldn't agree more."
I smiled as I saw Kate in the door way in her usual slacks and button up shirt, leaning against the door frame.
"I just came to tell you two the potion is ready. I suggest you come take it now Olivia. It is suppose to take effect fifteen minutes after taking it and mom can only keep him away for another twenty."
Olivia agreed as she walked beside her back to the living room with me not far behind. With Olivia back to normal size and now talking to Mr. Flaversham about how the class went, Kate and I took the opportunity to tell Lidie. Luckily this time we didn't need to across over there. Lidie had been managing a spell that allows her to send letters through to Molly. Lidie told Kate how to perform it and that tonight Kate would send both Jay and Rose a message to be careful. That night as we stared up at the night sky, reflecting back on the last day or so. Then having to get the venues set for our wedding and reception. I looked at Kate and smiled. How well she took to it all...I wonder if this is really the life she should have. I was snapped back out of my
thoughts when Kate started speaking with me.
"Basil?"
"Yes?"
"What's on your mind?"
"You."
"What about me?"
"Kate...could you honestly live this life?"
"What do you mean."
"I mean, could you live with a chance on a day to day basis that someone might come after you, that this life could be dangerous...that there might be a day that I may not come back."
"I know...your asking me honestly if I could live this life...Basil I've been living this life for a year and a half, knowing full well that such a day may come, but I don't look at it like that. I look at it as that if I get to wake up with you next to me and at the end of the day I get to go to that same bed with you, then it's been a good day. No matter what kind of life I live, if you're in it then it's worth it. No matter the cost."
I smiled as I held her hand. Hearing her say that she knows and still wants to stay makes me feel such joy, so much so that I pulled her closer to me and kissed her tenderly on the lips.
"You are such an amazing woman Kate."
"So are you...I mean an amazing man that is."
"I know what you mean Kate."
I smiled into her lovely brown eyes as I brought her into my warm, loving arms and held her close to me.
Somewhere about twenty feet away from a local high school, under a street lamp at one a.m in the morning was a tall lean man with brown combed hair, pale skin, wearing a white button up shirt, black slacks and shoes. he stood up and looked at the school with his blue eyes.
"Ugh, where am I?...no, when am I?"
I found near by me a discarded newspaper page on the ground, reading it left be in shock.
"I'm nine years later then I wanted...but this may work out to my advantage...oh Basil...Kate...you won't be able to deny me once I'm through."
In the dead empty streets of the city, where at that point the only thing you could hear was the sound of a man's maniacal laugh.
