Reichenbach Tales
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In the hours following Sherlock's Fall, John struggled to get to see his friend for the last time. It fell to Mycroft and Molly to keep him away and to make him sell the lie on which Sherlock's entire mission depended.
This is a bit of a thought piece. I've always been bothered by John's ignorance of the true happenings of Sherlock's "death," reasoning that it would have taken wild horses to keep him away from the body after the Fall. And John would not have been satisfied with a brief glimpse at a body double, so the balance of probability is that he never saw the body at all. This is my attempt to work my way through how anyone could have kept John away from Sherlock that one last time.
Rated T for language.
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- Part 1 of Reichenbach Tales
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Much has been written about John's grief upon seeing Sherlock jump from the top of Bart's, but relatively less has been said about Sherlock's thoughts and feelings. What was he thinking as he climbed up to the confrontation with Moriarty and then heard John's reaction to his dead body?
This story is a response to a discussion on www.sherlockforum.com in which we challenged one another to write the story of the Fall from Sherlock's perspective.
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- Part 2 of Reichenbach Tales
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One of Mrs. Hudson's boys was dead; one was hurting. It was heartbreaking for her to watch. As she saw John spiral away from her, she reflected on her long relationship with the Holmes boys. That is, until Mycroft Holmes rung the doorbell with an intriguing request.
“I came over at once to London, called in my own person at Baker Street, threw Mrs. Hudson into violent hysterics, and found that Mycroft had preserved my rooms and my papers exactly as they had always been.”
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Empty House”Series
- Part 3 of Reichenbach Tales
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With John out on a date and Mrs. Hudson out of town, Sherlock had a rare evening of privacy. He knew just what he was going to do with it, too. He was going to get high and try to make his depressed, over-active mind shut up.
Rated T for descriptions of drug use/abuse.
This takes place sometime before TRF.
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- Part 4 of Reichenbach Tales