howdull: (neutral] explanation)
Sherlock Holmes ([personal profile] howdull) wrote in [community profile] fossilised2016-11-06 04:25 pm

For John Watson

[Sherlock is still finding pieces of the melted laptop in the carpet.

It had actually been quite an ingenious booby trap to be devised by a fourteen year old boy with only household chemicals to work with but, as Sherlock surmised, rather overkill to keep his mother from finding his extensive porn collection. Not one of their more illustrious cases, but it had been quite entertaining to watch both the boy and mother's faces as he revealed that he did know the how and why. He lost interest after the mother started shouting and John started shouting and the whole thing turned tedious.

He rather thinks John won't actually be doing a full write-up of this one on his blog.

It's been two days since their last case and he's beginning to get more than a little antsy. Lestrade has sent him nothing, just a boring hit and run that he refused to even leave the flat for, and nobody interesting has appeared through the blog. Said blog he is currently scrolling through on John's laptop, having borrowed it again.

He did ask, it's not his fault John hadn't been in the room at the time.]


Bored, John.

[He doesn't even know if his flatmate is even in, but that's hardly a necessity for him to actually speak to John. Frustrated, he throws the laptop across the room to hit the wall, where it summarily breaks. Which is where he can be found whenever John appears, sulking amidst pieces of laptop, both from the melted one of their last case and John's poor broken one.]
jumpthegun: (srs | empathy)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-09-30 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Molly, I need you to trust me. Sherlock and I are working on getting me out right now. But what's most important is all of those other people. I know this is hard, but I need you to be their hero right now. They need someone like you to get them out of here. You're one of the bravest people I've ever met. That's what they need.

Can you do this for me? Please? Get them out of here.
gallowshumour: (molly] anger)

[personal profile] gallowshumour 2018-10-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[She hesitates a long moment, trying to find a way out of this that doesn't involve her turning her back and running away from one of her few friends when he's in danger.

In the end she makes a noise of frustration and turns, the light of her phone facing the other way.]


You better still be alive when this is over, John Watson!
jumpthegun: (angry | killer)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-02 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Promise you can kill me if I'm not! Be careful out there, Molls.

[He realizes too late how unwise it is to show that level of affection toward Molly directly in front of Moriarty. He's already done it before, but he should really stop for her safety. Just to be sure, he does turn back to the other man.]

You have men out there in the dark. [It's not a question. Moriarty would have needed help with the set up, and he's obviously not the one who murdered Caroline and propped her up like that when his clothes are spotless.] See they don't bother her, or I will start breaking bones, Mr. Moriarty. Yours, specifically, until your men kill me. And that would be a terrible end to the game, wouldn't it?

[It's just a bit of a trick. He's trying to be clever like Sherlock would be. John pulls out the phone he'd taken from the man and walks over to offer it back. If he can get Moriarty to unlock the mobile for a call, maybe he can snatch it away mid-discussion and get access to it that way.]
gallowshumour: (moriarty] smile)

[personal profile] gallowshumour 2018-10-05 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Moriarty hasn't moved the entire time that John has been talking to either Sherlock or Molly, just watching proceedings with a tiny smile at his lips as though everything is going to plan.

It's just so entertaining, like watching a hamster run around a wheel desperately.]


Well gosh, it looks like you've got me in the palm of your hand, I'm helpless to do anything but obey.

[He takes the phone and unlocks it slowly and deliberately, smirking up at John the whole time.]
jumpthegun: (srs | nerves of steel)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-05 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[John just keeps his eyes on the phone, expression stony-faced. He'll try to see the combination and memorize it quickly, or at least guess it based on the pattern of Moriarty's finger if he's being more covert about it. It's no different from reading Ella's notes while she's taking them.]
gallowshumour: (moriarty] smile)

[personal profile] gallowshumour 2018-10-05 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Moriarty doesn't bother to hide it, the code is 6341 to unlock it. However, if John gets back hold of it, he'll just find that it has Candy Crush installed and no contacts listed.]
jumpthegun: (srs | looking up)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-05 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[6341, all right. That's easy enough. Four digits...

John's gaze flicks momentarily to the briefcase. It couldn't be that easy. Could it? Given that he knows the code, he'll wait to snatch the phone back until the other man has a chance to, John assumes, actually talk to his men. Hopefully, it won't be in code. In the meanwhile, John's going to head over to the briefcase and try the 6341 combo on it. If that doesn't work, he'll also give 1436 a go.]
Edited 2018-10-05 15:27 (UTC)
jumpthegun: (annoyed | not amused)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-05 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[John answers, glaring daggers at Moriarty and stepping over to swipe his mobile away again. Okay, so... he kind of enjoys Candy Crush now and again for something mindless, but he's not going to mention that. John just shuts that down.]

That's four syllables, not four digits, Sherlock.
jumpthegun: (srs | glance)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-09 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Laying it on a bit thick. [That's directed at Moriarty in a deadpan tone more than Sherlock.] Posterity. Fine. So future generations or her descendants. We're looking for Boudicca's descendants, maybe?
jumpthegun: (scared | taken aback)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-18 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[No.]

Why? If you step in here, Sherlock, you can't get out. There might be other clues around the city we'll need to get to.
jumpthegun: (facepalm 1)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-18 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Sherlock, you have at least a stone and a half on me. [John has no idea what the actual differential will allow. He's not calling the man fat, but bloody hell! He also doesn't want Sherlock alone with this man.]
jumpthegun: (srs | blood)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-23 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Are you a bombs expert? If you get down here, what you're going to do is help Molly get people out. She should be doing that.

[He looks toward the windows.]

...Haven't heard any movement, yet.
jumpthegun: (angry | this close)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-24 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thank you for putting that thought fully into his head. John turns and stalks over to Moriarty. If the man doesn't move, the doctor will grasp the front of his shirt and jerk the man up and forward a little. He drops the phone from his ear, but Sherlock will likely be able to hear.]

What did you do to her? What've you had done to her?
gallowshumour: (moriarty] smile)

[personal profile] gallowshumour 2018-10-26 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Moriarty grins as he's dragged up, utterly unconcerned in the face of John's anger. He's so volatile, it's quite amusing, like a cave man.]

So suspicious, Johnny, where's the trust?
jumpthegun: (angry | you envy me)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-10-26 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[John's only as volatile as the situation demands, thank you. He raises the phone to his ear.]

Bring a gun if you can find one, please. And a weight to hand to me before we switch places that'll balance out our weight difference.

[John is actually the one who hangs up on Sherlock this time. The sudden aggression has cost him a little bit, even as he does his best not to show it.]

Maybe it flew out the window when you decided it was hilarious to set a deranged woman on me. [He gestures toward Caroline before letting Moriarty go.] And fabricated war crimes against me. And tried to blow up your girlfriend.
gallowshumour: (moriarty] smile)

[personal profile] gallowshumour 2018-11-06 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Caroline? She would have come for you anyway, sweetheart, she really did blame you for the death of her husband. I just gave her the tools to be a little more creative, and you can't deny how fun it's been so far.

[Her plan had just been to get an appointment at his GP surgery and walk in there with a gun, start shooting until she got the man she came for. How utterly boring.]

Life is all a game, Johnny boy, and I'm the master of it.
jumpthegun: (annoyed | sass 2)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-11-08 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Life isn't a game. What you are is a master of chaos and destruction, and those are only a small part of life. I've seen so much more than that, and you don't even register there. You are nothing outside this little spider's web you've built for yourself. You couldn't last in real life for very long. You're just annoying.

Let me guess, you were that kid who liked picking on three-legged dogs and tying tin cans to cats' tails. Did it make you feel strong? Like a big man? Make up for the bullies who beat you up after school? And then you figured out how to manipulate them. And wasn't that nice? A whole group of arseholes to pick on other kids for you. Because you've never really been man enough to take on someone on your own. No, there's always a trick. Always someone standing by. Always scared of going it alone, aren't you Jim? So, you pick up Caroline. And sure, you'll tell yourself it's entertaining and maybe it is. [He raises a hand, palm up.] But we both know you're really just a coward who can't get by on his own merit or schemes.
gallowshumour: (moriarty] smile)

[personal profile] gallowshumour 2018-11-09 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
You sound like my first therapist.

[He grins as if in wistful memory, not really that put off by John's deductions about his childhood. It's true that he never had any friends, but that was by choice, and he had never been the target of the bullies. Jim has always known how to be a chameleon, to fit in and manipulate his surroundings to his benefit.]

But look around you, Johnny boy, all of this is 'my scheme', as you put it - I like that, by the way, very Bond villain - and you're well and truly caught in this spider's web.
jumpthegun: (srs | standing alone)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2018-11-10 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
[John just narrows his gaze, more than a little irritated that his sneering didn't get more of a rise. He looks at Moriarty, then over at the briefcase.]

I usually just hoover the spiders up at home, y'know?

[He walks over to the briefcase and will try to pick it up. If it's coming, he'll carry it over to the door and hold that out onto the tracks. If he can't get the briefcase, he'll carefully tip Caroline out of her chair and carry that over.]

How sensitive is the weight trigger on this bomb, Mr. Moriarty?

[This is probably extremely inadvisable, but John's blood is boiling metaphorically and a bit literally. He's had it up to the neck with this game. And he's going to press at the boundaries of it to see what happens while he's waiting for Sherlock.]

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