Chapter 17

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This is it guys! The long awaited Reichenbach Fall! Let's get on with it then.

I had known that Moriarty had planned Holmes' downfall, but I hadn't known how far he was going to take it. How much he had been willing to sacrifice. No one had known.

If I had known, if Seb had known...
.. We'd rather have shot him ourselves.
Shot him, yes, but not a kill shot.

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I shot the target twice more, took the magazine out of the pistol, and dropped both bits onto the sofa. "Seb!" I shouted. "Bored!"

"And what am I meant to do about that?" Seb shouted back. "I'm just as bored as you are!"

We hadn't had any jobs for over a week. Jim was planning something else, and he hadn't told us what yet. So, meanwhile, Seb and I just spent our time lounging around becoming steadily more bored by the day. Aliona was at school.

Seb's phone rang, and he dived for it across the sofa.
"Yeah? ... Bored as hell ... Fine ... But, when, Jim? ... Oh, ok ... Yeah ... I love you ... Bye."
He looked up at me. "He says to watch the news."

We walked upstairs to the lounge, slumped down on the sofas, and turned on the TV.

".. And the police are still puzzled how Pentonville Prison, the Bank of England, and the Tower of London were all broken into at the same time, by seemingly the same man. We have got reports that he has been captured, and may well soon be spending time in the very prison he broke into. Photos are just coming in now of him being escorted out of the Tower, and into a police car..." a picture flashed up on the screen.

"WHAT?!?" Seb shouted, jumping up. Before I knew it, he was holding a loaded pistol.

The man being marched into a police car, with his arms held tightly, and a police officer's hand clamped down on his shoulders?
The man smirking at the camera while chewing his gum?
The man arrested?
You got it. It was one James Moriarty. Jim.
Seb's boyfriend.

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