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This chapter is the prequel to the sequel. Based upon the comic "Countdown to Darkness" and the first scene of "The Great Game", this is both explaining the beginning of the real story and the ending as seen from a certain point of view.
As I already mentioned, this will be a multicrossover but I don't know yet in which categories I will change the story although the third one has not yet appeared here on .
However, this BBC's Sherlock will not only meet James Bond's Skyfall but also something shortened ID , which may tell some of you already what is going to happen. However, I can give you the following hint:
"You think your world is safe. It is not. It is an illusion, a comforting light held to protect you. Enjoy these final moments of peace, for I have returned...to have my vengeance!"
- JH in ID
Have fun reading and tell me what you yet think about it :)
Chapter 0 – Countdown to Rising
John was making tea. He did not know why but it calmed him down. It usually was Sherlock's task to be the impatient one but right now, John was worried. The detective has left so suddenly, he had even forgotten his scarf here and this was no good sign.
The water was boiling and he shut off the microwave. Suddenly, he halted all his movements. It was the door, definitely the door and a key had been turned. Sherlock had taught him how to recognize when someone entered – either a new client pressing the door bell or Mycroft and his men sneaking upward 'without' any noise.
But this key-turning was different, he noticed the scratching of metal on metal. Hands trembled, the footsteps stepping onto the stairs were unequal, hectic and somewhat craven.
John walked backward to have a better look on who was coming into the room. Then he saw him, it was Q, although he hardly looked like himself. He wasn't walking, he was stumbling, putting one foot before another with great effort.
"Jesus," John muttered and held out his arms to hold him. He was so weak and John nearly had to drag him over the floor before he made it to the couch where he slumped down like a heavy, dirty bag of flash and bones.
Now only did John have time to have a closer look at the scientist. His hair was wildly sticking out in all directions, his face hardly recognizable under all the dirt and – blood.
His clothes were soaked red, scorched partly with deep holes in the black shirt that he has never seen him wearing before. There was a small insignia like a mixture of a triangle and a star but he couldn't recognize it completely.
Where the shirt was torn open, the bare flesh, singed and wounded could be seen, a mixture of black and hardly dried dark red liquid.
His trousers seemed completely soaked with red blood and looking down, John noticed that Q's trembling hands were holding a little device. He reached out to take it, but wet tears were dropping down on his hands and Q moaning 'no' made the importance of this thing clear.
Then, he could grab the device and regarded it. It seemed like an old kind of mobile phone, hinged and without many buttons.
"What happened?" John asked nicely and put it on the table on which he had sat down. He bent forward and tried to get a closer look on the wounds to decide if a visit at the hospital was necessary.
Q started to cry again, silently sobbing and trying to wipe the tears from his red cheeks, mixing with the blood to a lighter red.
"Where is Sherlock?" John asked confused. Sherlock hadn't looked as if he was going to visit Q tonight, but nevertheless he had been acting most strange before he went.
"Sh-Sher-Sherlock," Q stammered with a high-pitched voice, "is dead," he said and looked up with his watered brown eyes into the face of the shocked doctor who had no doubt this time, that even the mastermind of this century, could look ahead or even prevent what Q was about to tell him now.
Please Story Alert because I won't be able to continue for at least until 9th May, probably longer. I promise to continue this story at least after 22nd May (date of my last final graduation exam). Btw, chapter 1 is finished, I just like to let you wait...just kidding, I can't upload because I don't know yet how Sherlock is going to snuff it...if he is going to die...
And remember to check my stories and the continuation of this one from time to time but also my other Sherlock-including stories. :D