Hidden just off the path to Reichenbach, near the top, there is a small, nameless memorial. Every so often, Holmes makes a solitary trip to the Continent and pays his respects.
FILL: Haunted by You 1/?tayberhecateMay 19 2011, 18:21:32 UTC
(ARGH SORRY, TAKING FOREVER. Sorry this sucks. RL sucks. There's more coming, if I can find the time to work on it. De-anoning so you can keep poking me until it's finished.)
1894
He is returning home. His nemesis will not be.
He had certainly been brilliant, that much was unmistakable, undismissable. He had long lain outside the public notice, until the end when his reputation came crashing down with his criminal empire. While he may have once been thought respectable, Moriarty was a villain nonetheless, and would be remembered as the master criminal who had killed (or tried to kill) Sherlock Holmes. The public would laugh at his death, would spit and curse and say “Good riddance to him!”
Holmes wonders, sometimes, if there was someone, perhaps long since dead, who would have missed the man who died at Reichenbach. Surely as a child at the least, Moriarty had someoneHolmes takes a brief detour in Switzerland
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OP here Re: FILL: Haunted by You 1/?rat_chanMay 20 2011, 13:59:14 UTC
(de-anoning so you know I have little right to poke and prod anyone to speed up)
Thank you for taking on my prompt. <3 I like the subtle sympathy Holmes has for his fallen rival here and I'm looking forward to where his musings about Moriarty might lead him.
The implied symmetry between how Moriarty built his criminal empire and how Holmes constructed his little memorial was an especially nice touch.
Re: OP here Re: FILL: Haunted by You 1/?tayberhecateMay 22 2011, 18:34:36 UTC
Oh hai! Tis you, my fav KKBB writer that filled my smutty prompt! :D Glad to hear you like it thus far! *dances*
this would be coming along a LOT faster if my dad hadn't decided we needed to build a workshop for him in the backyard. From scratch. BY OURSELVES. FUUUUUUUUUU.... in anycase, part 2 is almost done and with any luck will be up later today. Tomorrow at the latest. :)
FILL: Haunted by You 2/5tayberhecateMay 23 2011, 22:08:20 UTC
1897
He doesn’t make the next trip until several years have passed. It’s not out of forgetfulness, or the thought that he was not worth the trouble, it just wasn’t time yet. It’s time now
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Re: FILL: Haunted by You 2/5
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May 25 2011, 20:18:41 UTC
“It should never have come to this… it wouldn‘t have, if you‘d left well enough alone. Now all has ended in death and darkness, and it‘s all your own fault.”
“And what exactly is my own fault?” he says, eyes scanning for the other speaker.
But the whispering/echoing voice does not answer. It dies down, and fades away. And Holmes is left alone again.
Poor Holmes. I've always wondered how the accusations (by Moriarty's brother, if I recall correctly) that he murdered Moriarty affected his sense of self, but I never considered how his own mind may have dealt with the subject.
FILL: Haunted by You 5/5tayberhecateJune 12 2011, 10:20:02 UTC
1915
He makes his final trip to Reichenbach, and the previous location of the little unmarked memorial there.
He is getting too old to make the trip; getting to Switzerland is exhausting, let alone making the climb up to the top of the falls. As always, he has a devil of a time making it there unnoticed and alone, but happily, he does succeed. He likes having privacy during his visits.
He is quiet throughout, and calmly lets the presence of his fallen foe wash over him.
Things are always quiet now, and sometimes he feels like he ought to scream just to fill the silence. He has quietly retired by now, and lives quietly in Sussex, tending (quietly) to his bees. He no longer takes the cocaine, Watson’s pleading and coaxing finally paying off.
It makes Watson happy, to see him so at peace.
And for the most part, he is at peace… except not. He is content, but not really happy. He lives quietly, in a constant, subtle disquiet.
The shade’s suggestion - “why can you not be the ghost, out of the two of us?” - runs eerily
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(but OP still crosses out the above "maybe" and "kinda" with a cyber-Sharpie)
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1894
He is returning home. His nemesis will not be.
He had certainly been brilliant, that much was unmistakable, undismissable. He had long lain outside the public notice, until the end when his reputation came crashing down with his criminal empire. While he may have once been thought respectable, Moriarty was a villain nonetheless, and would be remembered as the master criminal who had killed (or tried to kill) Sherlock Holmes. The public would laugh at his death, would spit and curse and say “Good riddance to him!”
Holmes wonders, sometimes, if there was someone, perhaps long since dead, who would have missed the man who died at Reichenbach. Surely as a child at the least, Moriarty had someoneHolmes takes a brief detour in Switzerland ( ... )
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Thank you for taking on my prompt. <3
I like the subtle sympathy Holmes has for his fallen rival here and I'm looking forward to where his musings about Moriarty might lead him.
The implied symmetry between how Moriarty built his criminal empire and how Holmes constructed his little memorial was an especially nice touch.
I'll be patiently waiting for more. <3
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this would be coming along a LOT faster if my dad hadn't decided we needed to build a workshop for him in the backyard. From scratch. BY OURSELVES. FUUUUUUUUUU.... in anycase, part 2 is almost done and with any luck will be up later today. Tomorrow at the latest. :)
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He doesn’t make the next trip until several years have passed. It’s not out of forgetfulness, or the thought that he was not worth the trouble, it just wasn’t time yet. It’s time now ( ... )
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“It should never have come to this… it wouldn‘t have, if you‘d left well enough alone. Now all has ended in death and darkness, and it‘s all your own fault.”
“And what exactly is my own fault?” he says, eyes scanning for the other speaker.
But the whispering/echoing voice does not answer. It dies down, and fades away. And Holmes is left alone again.
Poor Holmes. I've always wondered how the accusations (by Moriarty's brother, if I recall correctly) that he murdered Moriarty affected his sense of self, but I never considered how his own mind may have dealt with the subject.
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He makes his final trip to Reichenbach, and the previous location of the little unmarked memorial there.
He is getting too old to make the trip; getting to Switzerland is exhausting, let alone making the climb up to the top of the falls. As always, he has a devil of a time making it there unnoticed and alone, but happily, he does succeed. He likes having privacy during his visits.
He is quiet throughout, and calmly lets the presence of his fallen foe wash over him.
Things are always quiet now, and sometimes he feels like he ought to scream just to fill the silence. He has quietly retired by now, and lives quietly in Sussex, tending (quietly) to his bees. He no longer takes the cocaine, Watson’s pleading and coaxing finally paying off.
It makes Watson happy, to see him so at peace.
And for the most part, he is at peace… except not. He is content, but not really happy. He lives quietly, in a constant, subtle disquiet.
The shade’s suggestion - “why can you not be the ghost, out of the two of us?” - runs eerily ( ... )
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And done well, I might add. Ive been waiting for this, you know. Let me be the first one to say that it lived up to its expectations.
Really, hauntingly beautiful.
<3
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