This should have been written months ago, but I had trouble pulling it together - sorry :( I apologise also that the meter of this poem does not flow as I would like - forgive me.

We find our friends still standing

In a stalemate

At the pool.

Moriarty waits for them to make

The first move

He's no fool

~O~

The silence suddenly is broken

Raucous ringtone

'Staying Alive',

Consulting Criminal retreats

Heroic duo

Will survive

~O~

A plethora of boring cases

Aunties ashes

Been replaced

Missing files, live comic heroes

Blonde with speckles

On her face

~O~

Only case he cannot solve

In boot of car

A body's found

Should have flown to Germany

And died when airplane

Hit the ground

~O~

'Belly-button murders' finds him

Hiding face with

Borrowed hat

Sherlock now a net phenomenon

Though he never

Wanted that

~O~

Dominatrix makes her move

Picks up her phone

To start her plan

While in a field a sportsman turns and falls;

Car backfires,

One dead man.

~O~

One comes to seek the help of Sherlock

John goes quickly

To the scene

Investigation interrupted

Whisked to Palace

Meeting Queen?

~O~

Sherlock dressed in sheet alone with

John, sits giggling

At their state

Mycroft orders him to dress

Though keeping temper,

Still irate.

~O~

Dominatrix has some pictures of

The Queen's

Young relative

They want to keep from press the way

Young relative

Chooses to live

~O~

Back at home (with stolen ashtray)

Sherlock seeks

An apt disguise

Can find nothing in his wardrobe

In Mews another

Way he tries

~O~

'Hit me John' our hero orders

John just stands

Looks perplexed

'I always here that when you talk but

Usually it's

In subtext!'

~O~

In slapping John Sherlock unleashes

Angry soldier

So he says

'You're a doctor!' John just snarls and

Answers him 'I

Had bad days!'

~O~

Acting as a mugging victim

Vicar Sherlock

At her door

Little does he know that he is

Just the man

She's waited for.

~O~

Sherlock's clever, finds the hiding

Place of Irene's

Camera Phone

Loud commotion in the hallway

Warns him they

Are not alone

~O~

They heard her say the combination

Was in view right

Under his nose

They threaten John, Holmes senses trap

And shouts

Vatican Cameos

~O~

Quite quickly they disarm and knock out

Agents of the

CIA

While John's back is turned Irene drugs

Sherlock, then is

On her way

~O~

Back at home Sherlock recovers

Mycroft's angry,

Sherlock too

But puts the dominatrix from his mind

until their

Christmas 'do'

~O~

She has sent a text to Sherlock midway through

His rant

At Molly

Her phone is wrapped up on the mantle

There's reasoning

Behind her folly

~O~

Later on that night a bloodied body

Upon the slab

Lying cold

Will Sherlock ID her as Irene?

Mycroft waits

To be told

~O~

John's girlfriend leaves she does not see

This is a

danger night.

Poor John he is alone once more and

All for doing

What is right.

~O~

New Year's Eve and John is driven

From the flat by

Sherlock's mood

A beautiful girl, another black car, refusal

Now would be

So rude.

~O~

He thought the car was sent by Mycroft

But soon

In Battersea

He realises his mistake as Irene

Stands alive for

All to see

~O~

Neither was aware that Sherlock

Stood alone in

Shadows deep

She sent her text and then they heard

The text alert

Unique

~O~

Sherlock's return to Baker Street

Finds Mrs Hudson

Hostage

Disarms and throws the agent

From the window

In a rage

~O~

New year's come and gone and Sherlock

Home from Bart's

Discovers that

The lady once dead now arisen

Sleeping peaceful

In the flat

~O~

She would like the phoned returned but

Sherlock wants

Its secrets

Yet unknowingly he helps Moriarty

Identifies airline

And ticket

~O~

Irene tells Moriarty, he tells Mycroft

Mycroft fears

His plan undone

Brings Sherlock to show him the problem he causes

Irene Adler's

Plan is sprung

~O~

Alas though when she's close to Sherlock

Her eyes give

The game away

This unlocks the phone, thus keeping

Mycroft's wrath

At bay.

~O~

This should have been the end as hostile Arabs

Would have

Had her head

Sherlock saved her, leaving everyone

To believe

She's dead.