This is probably my favorite Chapter so I hope you all enjoy!
8 months passed
Regan is sitting at her desk at Scotland Yard, typing away at her computer:
Sherlock is almost inhuman, he doesn't take time away from searching to eat or sleep, let alone talk to me, and I'm worried. All he does, morning to night, 24/7 is sit at that damn table and check and recheck his findings. Part of me hopes he'll find Col. Moran soon, that way he can stop all this nonsense and be back to his normal self, but, the other part of me wants him to never find him, that way he won't leave me. Before Sherlock began staying with me I was alone, lonely. Sherlock Holmes is, and will always be, the greatest man I have ever known.
-Regan McKeller.
As she finishes the entry the Chief Superintendent knocks on her door.
"Come in" She says very formally.
He enters very serenely, "Detective Inspector McKeller, You wished to speak with me".
"Yes, they told me you would contact me" She says as she stands to shake his hand.
"Yes, well, what would you like to address?" he states firmly.
Regan takes her seat again and closes her laptop. She begins, "It's been about a year and a half since Lestrade was on leave and I was wondering when he would resume his position".
"Oh, he won't be" He says as he shift his position in the chair opposite Regan.
"He won't?"
"Oh God no! He allowed a psychopath who was accused of multiple crimes to tamper with evidence" He explains.
"Mr. Holmes was never proven guilty to any of those charges, they were all just stories spread along by Sargent Donovan" She demands.
"I thought you would be overjoyed about this recently new position, are you not?" He questions hastily.
She scoots her chair forward, "I love this job, but, I find it very prejudicial for Lestrade to be fired for actions that proved hundreds of murderers guilty" She defends.
"He broke the rules and now he's paying for it" He culminates, "If that is all I best be going on my way".
"Yes, that is all" She states drowsily.
Regan knocks on the door of the flat, it is freezing cold and she had just come from Scotland Yard, and from her chat with the Chief Super. Lestrade opens the door, "Detective McKeller" He says overjoyed, "Nice to see you again".
"Actually, it's Detective Inspector now" She corrects with a dull voice.
Lestrade's face drops, "Oh, Congratulations".
"May I come in?" She asks as her eyes wonder past him and inside where it's warm.
"Of course" He motions her inside and onto his couch. "What's this all about?"
"It's about Sherlock" She spills.
Lestrade's eyes wonder, "What about him? I lost my job because of him".
"He's innocent" She proclaims.
"He wasn't, he kidnapped the British Ambassador's children" He screams profusely.
Regan pleads, "Moriarty, it was all him, he wanted all of us to believe that the only knowledgeable reason as to how Sherlock found them was because he took them. He was trying to frame him and Sherlock completed his story when he jumped from St. Bart's" She copies.
"He admitted that he was a fake, we read over his and John's phone call, he said, and I quote, 'The newspapers were right all along. I want you to tell Lestrade, I want you to tell Mrs. Hudson and Molly, in fact tell anyone who will listen to you... that I created Moriarty for my own purposes', Later on he states, 'I researched you. Before we met I discovered everything that I could to impress you. It's a trick. It's just a magic trick', He self-proclaimed everything", He says very confidently.
Regan chuckles, "To quote a great man, 'You see, but you do not observe'. That last sentence about researching, every word is in the past tense except for the part where he says-" She points to the paper he was reading off of, "'It's a trick. It's just a magic trick', that's in present tense, why? Because he was referring to the present" She shouts.
"Yes, he is referring to his deduction skills" he says calmly.
"No. He was trying to tell John that what he was about to do, jump, that all that was a trick, a magic trick" She rationalizes.
"If it was a trick how come he's dead" He concludes.
Regan pauses, "He isn't, Sherlock Holmes is very much alive".