Give me a reason (a sherlock fanfiction)

Moriaty's palace

Chapter 6

John

Gone. My land lady. Taking by Moriarty. Poor lady.

I guess I should help...

"Sherlock! What is in the picture?"

"I'm not sure john. Is the same picture that he sent us for Carl powers shoes."

"Should we go look then?"

"Yes"

We both headed down to the basement flat to find an unholy sight. Clearly this was done while we were blacked out, which was probs Moriarty's doing.

"Sherlock? What is the world is this?"

"This my dear watson, is our clue."

I started to look around more closely to find the walls had "get sherlock" written all over mrs. Hudson's favourite wall paper.

In the centre of the room there was a body seated on a throne with char marks on the carpet around it.

"Any ideas?" I asked

"Quite possibly. The man on the throne was the man posing as Moriarty the day I... Well you know. Quite clear since he has a bullet wound going in and out of his head. The throne and the "get sherlock" on the walls is referring to what got Moriarty convicted . Well actually it all is..."

He paused temporarily to look is the ashes and... Taste them?

"Hmmm. Metal and gold since he opened the prison and the vault. Now how this all connects, I have no clue."

This is really the only time I have ever seen sherlock stumped. He paced back forth for about 20 minutes in silence. Moriarty was good at being confusingly random.

"Sher I'm gonna go grab something to eat. Want anything?" I thought is ask even though I know he will deny.

"Actually, I wou... Did you just call me sher?"

Boggers. "Uh no sherlock I didn't. You must have heard wrong". Woooow. Good save.

"Oh okay" is it just me or did he seem disappointed?

"Ya well I'll be right back. Do. Not. Run. Off."

I heard him sigh as if I'd ruined his plans then went to go get food. It's hard to find food when he's already restocked the fridge with his experiments. Just as I thought I found something that may be jelly, sherlock came bounding up the stairs.

"John I've got!"