Lost Inferno {The LOST Chronicles, BOOK 2}

Chapter 20- He Was Gone

Maddy's Pov-

Matt walked me down off the roof and back out onto the main street, but by this time Sherlock's body had already been cleared from the site, there was no evidence what so ever left from his sudden death. He was gone.

Me and Matt both went our separate ways, after I'd promised him that I wouldn't do anything stupid as a result of the extreme events and feelings that I had been forced upon today. I ran straight over to John, the minute he saw me rushing over to him he opened his arms. I ran forth into his arms and we both cried together, cried at the sheer thought and feeling of losing the best man we'd ever had the fortune to meet and know. The thing about John was that he knew exactly how I'd be feeling right in that moment because I knew that he was feeling the exact same way. We both stayed close to each other and dragged ourselves back to Baker Street.

It wasn't long after the ordeal that I had indeed received a text from non other than Sherlock himself, he must have sent it quickly after he finished his phone call with John, before he fell to his death from the top of the St. Bart's hospital.

It read:

'Forgive and remember me -SH'

As soon as I'd read the text my eyes were already filled with tears, he was gone. 

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The funeral was a long and arduous task for all of us to have to go through. There weren't many people who turned up, but then again Sherlock didn't have many people around him. It was simply I, John, Mrs Hudson, Lestrade, Molly Hooper and Mycroft. I hadn't met Molly before this time and it seemed odd that she didn't cry at the service or even go to his burial, from what I'd heard she had a big thing for Sherlock so her reaction to all of this did surprise me and seemed a bit unnatural and wrong.

After Sherlock had been buried, both John and myself felt obliged to say a few final words to him. I let John go first, as I honestly didn't know what to say to any part of this. I watched him talking for a few short moments before he stood tall and saluted. He then walked back over to me.

"It's alright Maddy, I'll be right here." He reassured me.

"Thanks." I gave him a half smile.

I tiptoed around the graveyard, as the thought of all of the people that had died and were buried underneath my feet did seem to make me slightly anxious.

I eventually got to him, my Sherlock. 

I stood frozen in front of his black marble headstone that read: 'SHERLOCK HOLMES' in a bold, golden font.

I was silent for a few moments as I tried my hardest to be strong in front of him for one goodbye.

I took in a deep breath.

"So here we are then Sherlock, you and me. I cannot and will not cease to accept the fact that you are gone and that you are no longer with us but at some point I know that I will have to. Sherlock, I wanted to let you know that even though we both didn't even know that each other existed until just a few months ago but it didn't take me long to love you. Sherlock, you were and will always be in my eyes the best and greatest man that will ever have existed and you were certainly unique, I will never find someone like you ever again, which does upset me. Every time you made a deduction, my eyes lit up with inspiration. Every time you saved me, my love for you grew stronger. Every time you were just plain being you, my heart hummed with admiration and tranquility. Sherlock you are me, and I am you, we are both two sides of the same coin and so I shall remain incomplete from now on. Sherlock, the day you took the fall for me you made me make you a promise, you made me promise you that I would remember and forgive you. Although I shall never forgive the fact that you have left me in this cruel harsh world alone, I forgive you for what you did and had to do and please know and keep this in mind that I will never, ever forget you. Sherlock, I will carry your name with pride and make it live on. It looks like this is our final goodbye, I mean of course I'll come and visit you all the time but for now this is goodbye. Sherlock, I wanted to thank you for being there for me, for looking out for me and for saving my life in more ways than you could ever imagine. Sherlock, the game is over. Goodbye." I sobbed.

I stood before him, my heart was in my throat, it began to choke me as I began to let out cries riddled with desperation for him not to be dead but to be here with John and me.

I had to live without him for the rest of my life, he was gone.

I was instantly shocked by the sound of my text alert going off, I unlocked my phone and found the message.

It was from an unknown number, it simply read:

'The game is never over...'

I stumbled back a bit and looked all around me and I spun slowly on the heels of my sore feet, yet I found nothing and nobody except for John waiting for me up near the church.

"The game is never over." I told myself as I walked off to join him.

I knew that in my heart this was a message directly for me, I'd like to think that Sherlock had sent it but nether the less it would have been impossible for him to have done so, unless he sent it before he fell and it was just delayed in getting to me.

This didn't matter too much to me though because I had found a new incentive.

The game is never over, the game was most certainly on!

Hi!

Well here we are then, you and me on the last page...

I would firstly like to thank you all for joining me and carrying on with me into this sequel, your comments and votes and just purely the fact that you're reading this means the absolute world to me.

I hope you have enjoyed this book, even though it was riddled with feels I hope it was written well and did justice to the Maddy storyline.

I have decided the shipping name for Maddy/ Matt and it will be known as 'Matty', I have also came up with a collective name for you all finally, if you are a fan of my Maddy books then you shall be forth known as 'Madlockers' :)

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