Madison King
Chapter 10
Sherlock, what am I looking for? John texts Sherlock after spending half an hour walking around the crime scene without finding anything other than black rubble.
Sherlock texts back from the back of a cab. Nothing. SH
What?
You're not looking for anything, John. SH
Then why am I here?
Is Lestrade there? SH
He is, but the police are getting ready to leave.
Keep him there. I need to speak with him. SH
I'm here to keep Lestrade at the crime scene until you finish speaking with your brother?
I've already finished my conversation with Mycroft. I'm on my way now. I'll be there soon. SH
That did not answer my question, Sherlock! The black cab pulls up in front of the blue and white police tape. John half limps over to the edge of the police tape. Although he no longer uses the cane, sometimes his psychosomatic limp is still noticeable. He waits for Sherlock to pay and step out of the cab before speaking. "What am I doing here?" John asks through his teeth. "Was I sent here to keep Lestrade at the crime scene while you spoke with your brother?" Sherlock makes a face and gesture with his head as he goes under the blue police tape that dictates to John that his statement was partly true although he had not thought of it in that way. "You did! You bloody git!"
"No," Sherlock says as he scans the area for the grey-haired detective inspector. When he sees the man, he takes long strides towards him and leaves an irritated John Hamish Watson behind him.
John lets out an irritated sigh and follows the infuriating man. When he makes it over to Sherlock and Lestrade, the two men are discussing the explosion and the lack of evidence as to who started it. Without warning, Sherlock looks at the top of a building and his words drift off mid-sentence. "John," Sherlock says.
"What is it?" John asks.
"Everybody! Down!" Sherlock yells.
"What?" Lestrade asks confused as he hesitantly moves to take cover. He trusts Sherlock's judgment although he cannot see what Sherlock does.
Sherlock whispers, "Sniper." He begins to dart toward the building he is staring at moments before bullets rain down on the crime scene. Upon hearing that word, John and Lestrade chase after him. All three of them make it to safety.
Lestrade stands and watches the bloodshed. His officers who did not listen to Sherlock's warning by taking cover fall. The bullets raining down upon the crime scene only last a few moments, but it is more than enough to kill at least a third of the officers the D.I. could see.
"Gavin!" Sherlock calls to Lestrade.
"Greg," Lestrade corrects him.
"Does it matter?" Sherlock asks. "Come on. If we hurry, we can catch Moriarty's sniper off guard."
"Are you sure that's him?" John questions.
"Yes," Sherlock answers as he starts running again. John and Lestrade follow him.
The Doctor tries to contact Sherlock using Mrs. Hudson's phone in her kitchen. "Maybe he can help him find Amy, Rory, and Mrs. Hudson," he murmurs as he thinks out loud. He listens to the phone ring and the answering machine picks up on the other end.
London is huge! Sherlock's enemy is running rapid, there are Zygons about, and this is a parallel universe! They could have be captured or they could run off to find Melody or River…whatever name she is called here!
The Doctor paces the room and runs a hand through his hair. Then, he thinks about the second door that closed. He remembers the door to the basement flat of 221C.
He runs down hallways until he finds the door. It's locked, so he uses his sonic screwdriver to unlock it before flinging it open and running down the stairs. "Amy?" the Doctor calls out. "Rory?"
"Hi Doctor," a Zygon disguised as Amy says as she walks out from behind a bookshelf and two other Zygons (one camouflaged as Rory and the other as Mrs. Hudson) reveal themselves from their hiding places.
"Amy?" Rory calls out into the blackness surrounding him. No one replies. "Amy!"
Rory tries to move, but his arms and legs are in confined in chains. He hears a nearby voice, but it's not that of his wife or the Doctor. "Why haven't we killed them?" the nasally voice says.
"They're bait," an almost identical voice answers.
Rory doesn't know who or what it's from, but he hears gunshots and loud moan-like sound. Then, when the shooting ends and the room is completely silent, a man with rough, calloused hands unlocks Rory's shackles without speaking to him.
Rory is carried outside of the building and thrown inside of a car. He still cannot see and only now realizes that he is blindfolded. "Where's Amelia?" Rory yells. "Where's my wife?" Three unconscious bodies are laid on top of Rory. Rory yells as he asks for his wife again. A cloth is put over his mouth that causes him to black out.
The man with the rough hands gets in the passengers side of the car, and another man starts it. They speed away; but as the car pulls, no one realizes that there is a fifth body in the heap with the four unconscious ones.