Echoes of Love
Note: Okay so I normally don't do this. But this will be the last chapter of the story. It will be change from the story I thought it would be. So I want to thankNicoleR85 for the review. I also want to thank for the favorite and the follows.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sherlock it belongs to Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I don't own the Hobbit it belongs to Tolkien and Peter Jackson for the movies. I also don't own the other shows/movies I will be using they belong to their owners.
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Echoes of Love
Ten: Shadows In The Moon
Sherlock was serious as he saw Joan and the Dwarf King walking to Joan's private room and he hated it. He knew that he had lied to Joan about many things and one of them being that he knew they would be nothing more. He wanted to see her happy and Marcus was supposed to do that many years ago. He felt the same thing at the moment with this Dwarf King that did not deserve her at all.
"Come in." he turned to see Joan opened the door. The Dwarf King walked inside and he felt a tug in his head.
'Sherlock!' he turned to see Tony.
'Can this wait?' he asked and Tony saw where Bella was at the moment.
'Fine.' Tony said.
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All the Elves heard the fight in the room and Elrond was not happy. He knew that Bella had told them not to go in but they had been tempted so many times. He could hear Thorin pointing fingers at Bella for not telling him about the twins. He didn't blame Bella. The Hobbit-Woman had just saved the world and this was her reward. Elrond wished that Bella would get her happiness and he didn't know how, but he knew the plan had been made and Bella along with the twins would be returning to Erebor.
"I'm sorry Elrond but the twins need to be with their Father." Bella told him.
"They have been." He said breaking every code because in a way they had been with their Father he might not be their biological but Sherlock cared for the twins.
"As much as I wanted him to be, Sherlock is not their Father." Bella tells him. Elrond looked at her.
"He loves you."
"And I him." Bella says.
"You are welcome to return anytime to Rivendell, Elf-Friend." Elrond tells her.
"I know and I hope to return." Bella tells him. Thorin had shouted at her that she would be going to trial at Erebor for her crime. She was so angry about that, she had done the right thing, maybe she could have found an easier way but at the time she didn't. She accepted to go back to Erebor to clear her name and let the twins be with Thorin. That had caused another fight one that she was sure everyone had heard.
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They were finally leaving; Glorfindel looked at Bella who was not happy she was still holding a cane.
"We don't wanna leave." Freya said.
"You can see our home." Kili told her.
"But can we come back?" Frodo asked.
"Yes." Glorfindel told them.
"You two will love Erebor." Thorin told them. Bella got on top of her pony and she was sort of in pain.
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The road toward Erebor was too quiet and Bella didn't feel comfortable. She wanted to be back in Erebor. None of the Dwarves tried to talk to her, well Fili and Kili did and she was happy to talk to them, but she really couldn't speak with any of them. Not even Tauriel, the twins seemed unhappy and they were looking around for Sherlock.
'Where are you?' she asked in her mind. She hadn't heard Sherlock in two days and that was rare for her not hearing him.
"Momma?" Frodo asked and she looked at him.
"Yes, my love?"
"Where is he, we miss him." Frodo told her.
When they were able to rest on the group, Balin began with a story trying to teach the twins their language something Bella was prohibited to learn since she was to have a trial. She walked to get some wood with her cane, she hid a bit, but she was feeling a pull.
"Sherlock?" she said because it was a similar pull toward him. She followed the pull but she knew she had to go back the twins were back there.
"Bella?" the voice called and she ran toward it, but she walked into a dark cave and it was wrong.
"Sherlock stop playing." She said she suddenly felt a blinding pain in the back of her head and everything went black.
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Bella woke up but she wasn't anywhere she knew it frightened her. The place seemed peaceful thought as if all the weight in her shoulders would be gone; it was a garden full of flowers.
'Sherlock?' she asked trying to find him.
'It's funny isn't it?' she turned to see a beautiful woman walking on the garden.
'Who are you?' she asked.
'You know me as Yavanna.' She said and Bella was shocked.
'I'm dead.' She said.
'Sadly yes, my Husbands son did not know that someone was hunting you down.' She said sadly.
'Sherlock, the twins?' she asked. Yavanna looked at her with kindness.
'The twins will have happy lives with their Godparents but they will see Thorin when they are old.' Yavanna told her.
'Really?' Bella asked.
'Yes, but now you.' Yavanna tells her.
'Me?'
'Well we have been thinking about your reward for saving Middle Earth you did not have to go destroy the ring that would be for your son.' Yavanna said. 'You saved the world and that deserves a reward.'
'What do you mean?' Bella asked. Yavanna bended down to her height and kissed her forehead.
'When you wake up, things will be different.' Yavanna says and Bella feels the kiss but she blacks out.
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'Beep, Beep'
She wakes up and looks around to see herself in a bed she looked around to see someone in bed with her. She looks at the cell-phone on her nightstand and she grabs it. She looks at the date and she knows it very well. Its two months before Sherlock returns. She gets out of bed and knows that she knows things.
"Joan." She freezes and turns to see Marcus there.
"Marcus." She says with a smile.
"Are you alright?" Marcus asks her.
"Yeah, I had a bad dream, go back to sleep." Joan tells him. "I'm going to visit Mrs. Hudson."
"Oh okay."
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Joan looks around and she swears that she should be seeing Elves or Dwarves even Humans. But she is back and her mind goes back to that last word with Lady Yavanna. This was her gift to come back home. She knocks on 221B and Mrs. Hudson opens the door.
"Joan!" she says with a smile and she feels guilty for not visiting.
"Mrs. Hudson." She says and hugs the woman.
"Oh."
"I've missed you." Joan says.
"Well come in dear." Mrs. Hudson said.
"If you don't mind." Joan says.
They walk upstairs and Mrs. Hudson shows her the flat. Telling her that she had not been able to sell it, since she was still paying some rent which she knew wasn't healthy but she couldn't let it go.
"So, what have you done?" Mrs. Hudson asked.
"Well I have a boyfriend."
"A boyfriend!" Mrs. Hudson asked. "Don't you think it's too soon?"
"Maybe." Joan whispers. "Mrs. Hudson, would you be alright if I came back home?"
"Not at all, I would be happy to have you back." Mrs. Hudson says with a smile. "When will you be returning?"
"I don't know, but it will be soon." Joan tells her. She doesn't plan on making the same mistakes.
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It takes two weeks before she talks to Marcus or Marcus notices something.
"You seemed incredibly serious." He tells her.
"I'm sorry." Joan tells him.
"You're breaking up with me?" he says and there's something in his eyes that tells her
"Yes." She tells him. "I'm sorry, but I'm not ready to do this, I thought I was."
"I understand." Marcus tells her. "I hope that we can still be friends."
"Uh, sure." Joan says not knowing that she had gotten really good at acting. "I'll move out in a week."
'Where will you be going?" Marcus asks.
"Back home." Joan tells him and tries not to groan at that.
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Lestrade is surprise when Joan asks him to help her move out of Marcus's flat back to 221B. They're back to 221B when Lestrade asks her.
"I thought you were happy?" he tells her.
"I thought that too, but I made a mistake." Joan tells him. Greg looks at her surprise and the hair still has him freaked out, she had dyed it six months ago a copper color which he didn't like nobody did but they didn't tell her anything after how depress she had gotten. Hair color was fine.
"All I can say is welcome home." Lestrade tells her.
"Thank-you." Joan tells him. She doesn't deny that she misses the twins on occasions and Glorfindel. But she knows that they are happy.
"You seem different." Greg tells her.
"What do you mean?" Joan tells him.
"I don't know, you just seem different." Greg tells her. "More lively and calm."
"I didn't notice." Joan tells him.
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Sherlock is back and he knows things that he shouldn't. When Mycroft come safe him, he says almost lines to not have his brother suspect.
"You enjoyed it." Sherlock tells Mycroft. He doesn't really care anymore there is only one thing he cares about and he wonders. When Mycroft shows him, Joan's file he sees her with the hair color and part of him wonders if she is with Marcus again.
"She's move on with her life." Mycroft tells him.
"What life, I've been gone." He tells his older brother.
"I'll tell you where she is going to be." Mycroft tells him.
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It's nighttime and Joan is in Angelo's, she knows that it's too conspicuous. She's sitting on the same table she and Sherlock always shared.
"What will you order tonight?" a familiar voice asks and she ignores it, knowing its Sherlock.
'Just the usual." She tells him.
"Uh—"he stops trying to say something she's here and Marcus is not, but what if he was in the bathroom. He's suddenly pulled down and she's looking at her eyes.
"Don't you think we've waited too long." She tells him.
"You-"
"I'm punching you later." She whispers before kissing him and Sherlock just pulls her close. He doesn't know how they have this chance but he plans to use it, this time.
"How?" he says breaking the kiss, but knows things have change and he pulls her out of Angelo's knowing that Angelo is looking at them.
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The flat seems to be in a world-wind; Sherlock and Joan had just arrived to the flat and not separated at all. Both are breathing hard and in Joan's (Sherlock's) room and both are wrapped around each other.
"How is this possible?"
"I don't know." Joan tells him. "When did you remember?"
"Three months ago, you?"
"Two months, I knew how near you were coming back and I broke up with Marcus after two weeks so he wouldn't be suspicious."
"We're still going to get attacked." Sherlock tells her.
"I know and we are ready."
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Epilogue
Sherlock and Joan had to act very well; she still got kidnapped and is under the pyre on the 5th of November. Sherlock is still helped by Marcus, who is not surprised about them being together. Still Sherlock is going back to the den to get the attention of Magnusson. Joan is not happy but she understands the reason why?
This time though Sherlock doesn't go to see Magnusson and he is killed by Marcus that night. They help Mycroft capture him as they find out about the Moriarty connection and Joan looks at him.
That night Sherlock asks her to marry him, to the happiness of everyone. Mycroft makes preparations just for her and Sherlock to elope in a castle in Italy. They still go on cases and when they find out that Joan is pregnant it shocks them when twins come and when she has them. Frederick and Hazel are born to them and resemble really close to Joan's twins on Middle-Earth that she smiles at having them back in a way.
As times goes by they live with their children and other adventures. They never tell Mycroft or anyone really about what they had seen or heard. They took their second chance at life and retired to cabin with Sherlock attending to his bees and their children along with their grandchildren coming to visit.
An Middle-Earth you ask, well they lived singing songs of the brave hobbit woman. That gave her life and the echo that followed her to the end of the line. But that is many years down the line and only time will tell if things change.
The End
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Note: This is the end of the story sorry if you were expecting more but my muse said here. I hope that you guys like it don't forget to review.