Doctor Who: 221b Chapter 9
The Black Woods, Germany
April 9, 1970
The Doctor, Sherlock, John, and Holmes walked through the TARDIS door. Holmes ran off to vomit like John did on his first time time traveling. The Doctor glanced at Sherlock, who glanced back.
"I'll let you explain everything to him." The Doctor said.
Sherlock sighed. "Tell me Doctor, what are we doing? None of this has anything to do with us!"
"We're doing this because someone needs our help. We are trying to keep Holmes from being erased like Lance."
"It isn't our responsibility!" Sherlock shot back.
"I'm sorry, who broke a timeline in half by exposing himself to his past self!?" The Doctor replied.
"At least I didn't kidnap two people in a time machine!" Sherlock shouted.
"Both of you shut up!" John shouted. "Sherlock, granted we aren't exactly here willingly, but people depend on us. This has to do with a solid timeline, if we let this 'Figure' and Moriarty break it, who knows the backlash?"
Sherlock glanced at the ground.
"And you Doctor, I want you to tell us everything about what this is and who you are!" John said, pointing at the TARDIS' hull.
The Doctor sighed. "I wasn't born the Doctor. It's been so long that I've forgotten my real name, but what I do know is that I am 1,200 years old, I am a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey and I swore to protect Earth and it's people."
Sherlock and John stared at him with mouths agape. "You mean-"
"I am not a human and I have taken many, many forms." The Doctor finished.
Sherlock glanced at John before socking the Doctor across the jaw, the Doctor fell to the ground with a limp thump.
/
The Doctor awoke some time later, the sun had set and Sherlock and John had made a fire and Holmes sat up against the TARDIS muttering to himself and rocking back and forth. The Doctor sat up with a confused look on his face.
"Look who's up." John said, handing him a bottle of water.
"Where did you get this?" The Doctor asked.
"I hiked a ways and found a town, I bought a pack of water and beef jerky."
"You speak German?" The Doctor said quietly.
John shrugged. "At least I'm not the only who keeps secrets."
The Doctor rolled his eyes and chugged the bottle of water.
Sherlock looked up from the fire. "You should have told us you weren't human."
"What? Time traveler wasn't enough? Besides, it didn't seem important until you punched me."
"Sherlock gets easily annoyed by people holding information from him."
The Doctor felt his chin. Bruised. "Yeah, remind me to stay on his good side from now on.
/
Unknown Place
Unknown Time
Moriarty figited in the rough chair in the dark room. The only light in the room was right above him, illuminating his body and the chair but everything else was shrouded in darkness.
"James Moriarty." The Figure said. "You failed."
"Let me try again, please!" Moriarty begged.
"I'm afraid I cannot trust you to keep my interests." The Figure replied.
"I'm sorry, it was stupid to leave him in 845! I know that now, give me another chance."
"No." the Figure growled.
An arm shot from the darkness and grabbed Moriarty by his shirt and pulled him into into the dark. Moriarty let out a blood curdling scream then a snap abruptly stopped it.
/
London, England
January 15, 2012
"Beats like digits. Every beat is a 1, every rest is a zero. Binary code, that's why all those assassins tried to save my life. It was hidden on me, hidden inside. A few simple lines of computer code that could break into any system." Sherlock said.
"Told all my clients-" Moriarty said before fading into thin air.
Sherlock looked around in confusing. "What the hell?"
"Sherlock!" John shouted from the street. "What's happening!?"
Moriarty just disappeared!" Sherlock shouted back.
John hung his head as Sherlock took one last look at the empty roof. Where did he go?"