notquiteheartless: (Distant)
Sherlock Holmes ([personal profile] notquiteheartless) wrote2012-07-27 09:15 pm

Deduction 8 - [ action / audio ]

[Sherlock Holmes almost laughed when he opened his eyes. Seemed his nanny had finally gotten tired of his self-appointed task. The chair John Watson had occupied last night -- and nearly every third night this month -- was empty.

Sherlock had to be amused at the sincerity with which the doctor had clung to his task. He had been so determined to find some method of making his charge fall asleep without letting him resort to the proven opiates.

Doxepin? An utter failure. Vicious, bloody nightmares rendered what sleep the detective managed pointless. Nothing else had really taken hold, either.

But the latest attempt. Zolpidem. Not as effective as morphine or heroin might have been, but Sherlock knew he'd slept a dreamless six hours. The most promising results so far, certainly.

Sherlock went into the main room of the flat to report, but... something was wrong. That it was empty was odd enough, but it went beyond that. Little things were gone. Insignificant pieces in the whole, but he noticed. How could he not? All of them were John's things, too.

He went down the hall of the flat and opened the door. Bed made, perfectly crisp and tidy. But nothing else. Not even the clock by the bed John had used. All of it was gone. The walls were white, not the pale tan he'd helped paint them.

He tried twice to make a filtered message to John over the Journal before hurriedly crossing out the words when the filter refused to work.

Sherlock Holmes accepted the truth and returned to the main room. If he had to pry up every floorboard in the place, he would. He doubted that would prove necessary. An average mind was easy to outwit.]


[It's evening before Sherlock turns on the Journal to address Luceti.

He's sulking in an empty flat on the top floor of Community House Two. A small dish in front of him has twelve cigarette butts -- a cheap American brand -- in it, smoked down to the filters. A thirteenth is half finished and in his hand.

There isn't much to say. There are no explanations to give, deductions to reveal, or clues to interpret. There is just one simple fact.

Perhaps that's why it's so hard to say.]


John Watson's gone.
consultsdetective: (my face is freezing this way.)

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[personal profile] consultsdetective 2012-07-28 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Alarm levels rising to Red Alert, please standby. Seeking confirmation. ]

And when you say gone... [ He knows what he means. ]
consultsdetective: (butcher statements. fantastic.)

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[personal profile] consultsdetective 2012-07-28 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, hell. [ Which is putting it mildly, of course. Sherlock transcends 'hell' when he's got a mind to. Good for John, he's not stuck in Luceti, for however long he winds up gone. Bad for John, he's back in London, bad for who knows who else. Missing company shouldn't get this complicated. ] You doing alright?
consultsdetective: (can I just say I hate vegetarians?)

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[personal profile] consultsdetective 2012-07-28 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, sure you are. Good to ask for manners' sake and everything. [ Not believing a word of it, also known as "and I'm king of the gnomes", 2012. ] I'm not sticking up for you if he winds up coming back and you're halfway through putting your lungs out of commission, mind.

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[personal profile] cop_an_attitude 2012-07-28 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Her first reaction is shock - gone? One of them, a Londoner? First one down. Then, a sense of satisfaction. He's back home where he belongs. Even the Malnosso don't keep their prisoners forever.

Then, utter dread and horror, because Sherlock is going to be utterly impossible.

...But honestly, she feels a bit sad for the Freak. Yes, he's a giant berk, but not an evil one like she once thought, and he deserves her empathy after...well, what happened. Back home.


He's back where he belongs, now. And safe from the Malnosso.
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[personal profile] cop_an_attitude 2012-07-28 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe not. But he's a trained fighter. And the way time works, Lestrade will still be there, right? He cares about you two. He'll be looking into it.
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[personal profile] cop_an_attitude 2012-07-28 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
People have been and gone and come back, and that's what they say. Why shouldn't we trust them?

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[personal profile] truthin_bones 2012-07-28 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[There really isn't much to say. And the prospect is frightening, especially if she thinks of losing Booth the way Sherlock's just lost Watson.]

My condolences, Sherlock.
deathsdoctor: (Misc | Working)

[Nothing]

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2012-07-29 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Gone, huh? Damn, down a staff member. The schedule will have to be adjusted to compensate.

The rest of the conversations going on are read and noted. Don't mind him. Law's just journal stalking as always.]]
thenoonewhosees: (this thing to consider)

[voice]

[personal profile] thenoonewhosees 2012-07-29 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[For a long time, Molly doesn't say anything. What can she say, honestly? When Sherlock was going through all those horrible things back home, the one he hid the truth from was John. Molly saw it, even called him on it, and afterward he'd trusted her for real, for the first and maybe only time, but that's not what's important.

John's gone. He's the one Sherlock trusts all the time.

But she can't go one not saying anything. Not when she knows Sherlock's going to be hurting, even if he won't let it show, or he'll try not to.]


I'm sorry. [That's the easiest thing, so it comes out first. Then a moment later.] Do you want to go somewhere? Just for a walk or something. Anywhere.
thenoonewhosees: (quietly seeing)

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[personal profile] thenoonewhosees 2012-07-29 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
I know there's no work, but-- [It's not what she means. Molly's worried, because she knows Sherlock's in the flat, and she also knows how empty it has to feel then.

John had moved out, when he thought Sherlock died. Molly stayed away, she had to, but she still knows that much.

And she's pretty sure that Sherlock won't do that here. He's the kind who'll lock himself away instead.

But he's asking her for a favour. Something she can do, and her reply is quick.]


Sure. What do you need?
thenoonewhosees: (wait--what?)

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[personal profile] thenoonewhosees 2012-07-29 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Again, there's silence on Molly's end. She knows the name. She knows what it does.

And then she asks to be sure.]


You...you want me to get you drugs?
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[personal profile] fortherefreshments 2012-07-30 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Never heard of him.
fortherefreshments: (doubt)

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[personal profile] fortherefreshments 2012-07-31 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of appropriate for someone of use to disappear.

[ Not quite bitter-- never for a stranger. Must be another generous act of the hosts. ]
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[personal profile] fortherefreshments 2012-08-14 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
There will be other doctors.

[ ...and blacksmiths, Tributes, soldiers of fortune... A doctor, while useful, is likely just as susceptible to selection as any other occupation. ]

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