The Unfinished Case// A Sherlock Story

XVIII

"You did what?!" Max's voice rang through the abandon warehouse.

"You told me to distract him!" The man fights back, slightly anxious about the turn of events.

"Yes, like run around making him chase you or plant little tricks for him buT NOT SHOVING HIM TO A BLOODY WALL!" She screams back, pinching the bridge of her nose.

"YOU DIDN'T REALLY SPECIFY!" He feigns as he waves his hands in the air. Max pulls out her gun and points it at the man's head, still pinching the bridge of her nose. The man freezes in horror and fear as his very life flashes across his eyes.

"I gave you orders, you defied them. I took you off the streets, gave you a home and a  job. Yet somewhere along the lines I lose your loyalty. Now how is that fair?" She questions as she exaggerates her movements.

"I'm sorry, this won't happen again," he begs for mercy.

"I'll give you a warning because I did not specify how to distract him, but the next time you lay a single finger on him you will never see the light of day ever again." Max says taking an intimidating step towards him. Her hard eyes piercing into his as he goes pale.

"Y-y-yes m'am,"

She takes one last glance at him before returning her attention to the monitors she had set up around London.

"If it is not too rude to ask, what are we gonna do now? Didn't we stop Moriarty by defeating his horsemen?" The man, also known as Billie, asks.

"Billie, you don't have to walk on shatter glass around me. We're cool now, alright?" She says not taking her eyes off the monitors.

"Y-yes ok. I'm still kinda shocked, you know?"

"Yes, yes, I understand. Just don't cross me next time and everyone is happy," she says typing on one of the computers.

"Oh," she says spinning around in her chair to face him. "To answer your question, no, we are never done. When I went to kill lust he told me I was too late. That another seal has been broken and that the world is going to end blah, blah blah, blah blah" She says rolling her eyes.

"What is the fifth seal?" Billie asks as he steps behind her to view the computer screen.

"When the Lamb had opened the "FIFTH SEAL," John saw under the "Sacrificial Altar," corresponding to the "Burnt Offering Altar," the "SOULS" of them that were slain for the "Word of God" and for the "testimony they held." The fact that their "SOULS" were under the "Sacrificial Altar" is proof that they had been offered as a "Sacrifice," that is that they were MARTYRS. But they were not the Martyrs of the Christian Church, for they had been resurrected and taken up with the Church. These Martyrs' are those who will be killed for the "Word of God" and their "testimony" after the Church is caught out."

"Jesus Christ, what the fuck is this?" Max says out loud as she rubs the lower half of her face with her palm.

"You know Jesus didn't write the bible, so all of this is some weird shit his crush wrote," Billie says, earning a chuckle from Max.

"No he didn't. But how do we convert this to modern day time. How did they metaphorically break the fifth seal?" Max inquires as she ponders about the seal. Her eyes widen as she opens the web and searches for the latest news.

"Come on, come on," she says as she searches for something to stand out.

"CEO head executive, Sebastian, had mysteriously vanish right after he bought the morgue"

"Bingo," Max says as she enters the coordinates into her phone before standing up.

"Come along, Billie. We have places to be and seals to protect." She says as she drapes on her coat before leaving the once again abandoned warehouse.