Out in the day light, the fear and concern for Sherlock completely drains from Jim’s body. He was reasonably safe. For now. His leg was aching though, and without his cane he could not get anywhere very fast. As he stumbles down the street he turns to watch his building crumble. What was causing it anyway? Curiousity got the better of him and he walks round the side of the building to investigate.
Jim leant against the wall of the building as he peeped his head round to get a look at the scene. The place was swarming with police, all searching for something in the rubble. Sherlock. Jim laughs at the image of Sherlock trapped under all that brick and concrete.
Suddenly he hears shots, a black car with tinted windows speeds round the corner and fires at the police. Jim recognises the number plate instantly - it was one of his men!
“Thanks guys, late and in the wrong place as always.” He pulls out his phone.
Round the back you morons. JM
After a few moments delay the car turns and spins off in Jim’s direction. But Jim does not miss the policemen that follow. Quickly he calls the passenger in the car.
“Do not stop as you pass me, just throw out a cane, that God damn detective took my best one. I must make him pay for that, I was very fond of it.”
Jim tucks himself in the bushes of someone’s front garden as the car drives by. On the opposite side to the police so they could not see, the window scrolls down and a long thin black object is thrown into the air. Jim waits until there is silence on the road again before picking up the item and heaves a sigh of relief as some of the pain is taken off his leg.
“Well,” Jim says as he looks down at himself, “it’s not the same without the chair and my best cane, but I still have the cape and my diamond ring,” which he proceeds to slip onto his middle finger. “It will have to do.”
Jim straightens himself and begins to walk towards the police, standing right in the middle of the road where they cannot miss him. Slowly, as each police man and woman notices him, it goes quiet, everyone staring at him, not quite believing their eyes.
“Hello boys,” Jim grins, raising his arms high. “Take me.”