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"Moriarty is back," I Repeated to Sherlock as we sat on the floor that Kale was murdered on.  I wanted to make sure that he understood what was happening because I barely understood it myself. I saw the news, I read the papers in prison, I read police reports on it when I got out of prison. Everything said that He was dead. He was shot in the head. How could he live through that? I couldn't believe it myself.   

His eyes widened for a second and then changed back to normal as if he was not surprised. But I knew that he was just as surprised at this news as I was, he just showed it differently. As for me, I felt like a marble statue, my face was emotionless and I couldn't move at all. I didn't know how to react to it all. 

I had never met Moriarty because when he died I was still in prison. I heard rumors about him when I was out on the streets before prison. I remembered promising myself that if I ever got out of the Hell that trapped me, I would make sure that I would never meet him. He was dangerous and I wanted to stay away from that. Thank goodness when I did come out he was already dead, or so I thought. 

From what I understood of him I knew he was unpredictable and just as smart as Sherlock. Now that I was working with Sherlock, I found myself right in the middle of all of this. I wanted to run, far away from here.  I now wanted freedom and peaceful bliss, but without Kale that thought seemed so hard to accomplish.  

Moriarty was extremely dangerous and needed to be approached with caution or that's what I heard people say. This was the man that Zane was so afraid of and I couldn't blame him. How did he come back though? How could he live through the gun shot. Last time I checked gunshot wounds to the head were pretty lethal.  By the reaction I got from Sherlock, I think he guessed that Moriarty would come back, he was just waiting for the right time.

"What did he say to you?" Sherlock asked me after a few minutes of silence.

"He just told me to tell you he said hello," I said and shivered as I thought about it. I looked back at the other side of the room again and thought about everything that had happened.

We must had been there for a while because the hallway light coming through the door was starting to fade. The sun must be going down by now. Even though we didn't talk much it was calming to have him by my side. I needed someone with me at this time and I was grateful that it was Sherlock.

Sherlock got up from the ground and looked at me. "What are your plans?"

I looked up at him and shrugged. I didn't feel like doing anything. I was too crushed, too broken to go on. I didn't want to go on anymore.  Kale gave me hope to change. Now that was gone and I was sure I wouldn't be able to change without him. "I'm going to do nothing."

He made a frustrated face at me and walked in a small circle. He stopped and faced me again, his face back to normal. He didn't want me to respond that way. "No, that's not good enough."

I frowned at him. Who was he to tell me it wasn't good enough?

"What are you going to do about this? Think Rori, he killed Zane, Ivan, Marina, and others that you have known and loved and now to add to the list, Kale. Now what are you going to do Rori?"

I felt his words burn through me as a fire, igniting something that I didn't know was there. He killed every person that I got close to within the past 6 months. He hurt them and teased me like it was some game. He ruined my life. He ruined my future. What was I going to do about it? Every part of me told me to do nothing, to end it all by taking me out of the equation. I could easily steal John's gun and end it or jump into the river with a weight tied to my foot. There were countless ways to make this pain end. But Kale didn't deserve that. He wouldn't want me to do that. He deserved justice. But it was so hard to move forward after this. But for Kale's sake I had to at least try.

I got up from the ground. "I'm going to stop him. I'm going to kill him, Sherlock. I am going to kill Moriarty."

"Then let's start that plan."

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"He's planning something big. I know he is. Why would he not come out if he didn't have a plan?" I asked Sherlock on the way to see his brother the same evening. By now it was completely dark and it was starting to snow again.  The first thing we needed to do was to tell Mycroft that Moriarty was back. He needed to know this information more than anyone else.

"But you don't know him like I do. He is not like Zane or Alice or anyone else that you have come across before. He is a completely different kind of criminal. I have never met anyone like him before. He pushes you until you have nothing and then breaks you for fun." Sherlock said as he walked into Mycroft's office building.

I frowned, he already did that to me. I followed him as he walked up to the elevator without asking anyone for an appointment. My mind ran with ideas on how Mycroft would react to what we were going to tell him. I hoped that he would give us support but I didn't think he would.

We walked through some huge wood double doors into a huge office. There behind his desk sat Mycroft looking as sour as ever.

Mycroft glared at us as he continued to talk on his phone, as if warning that one word would and he would kill us all. "A new material for building? What's so different about it? They are using it in the building that is close to the shard? I'll look into it," he said with a sigh then hung up. "How did you get up here?" Mycroft sighed sounding bored and slightly irritated.

"Moriarty is back," Sherlock said bluntly.

He frowned at us but I was expecting more of a dramatic response. Maybe he already knew he was back or at least had guesses that he was back. "How do you know?"

"He's the man that Zane owned money to. He was also the man that owned the company in Russia. Moriarty is behind all of it," I piped in. I leaned against the door entrance casually, trying to look cool and collected even though that was not what I was feeling at this moment. My hands were shaking, I shoved them into my pocket so no one would notice.

"Did you see him somewhere?"

I could still picture Kale's slumped body in the corner of the room. I shook my head to clear it. "He killed Kale. I saw him face to face."

He frowned again. If he frowned anymore it was going to be stuck on his face. "Do you know what he wants?"

"He wanted to say hello to Sherlock," I said holding back an important piece of information. He wanted me for some reason. I didn't know why yet and I wasn't about to tell any one until I had some solid proof. For now, this was my secret to find out.

Mycroft pinched the bridge of his nose. "I did not want my day to end this way."

"Well sorry if I messed up your perfect little day. But this was important and we needed to tell you." 

"I don't appreciate you talking to me like that."

And that was it, I couldn't be in the same room as him any longer. I was going to lose it. "And I don't appreciate you." I snapped back at him. I turned on my heels but before I left the room I said, "I'm going back home. If you need me, text me." And with that I left the boys to sort out this issue on their own. I knew that no real plan would be made yet and it was pointless for me to stay. They would spend a lot of their time auguring and I didn't want to put up with that. 

I walked in a quick pace down the hall and down the stairs. My body ached and I didn't want to continue to walk any farther. 

"Rori, that's it, she's gone," Ivan said to me as he cried into my arms the night that Marina was killed.

I awkwardly held him, not sure how else to act in this moment. Yes it was terrible that she died but we needed to make a new plan. We could only morn for so long until we would be caught too. "It's ok, it'll be ok Ivan. This group is going to pay. They are going to pay for everyone that was murdered."

Ivan shook his head as if that wasn't good enough. "I want them to suffer. We have lost so many people already. We need to make them suffer for their sakes. We owe it to them." 

I nodded. "We will make them suffer," I said to him, mainly to tell him what he wanted to hear. We were going to make them pay but I wasn't about to make them suffer for fun. I wasn't that kind of person.

"Rori, we are the only ones left. I think we will be next if we aren't careful. If I die before the group is brought down, promise me, you will make them suffer. You will never give up until they are dead, every single one of them," he said as he pulled out of my embrace. 

I nodded at him. I could promise him that. This group needed to know that there were punishments to their actions. "I promise, Ivan."

Suddenly a blast of cold air hit my face as I walked out the front door of a building. I looked around and I was in London again, leaving Mycroft's office. I heard Sherlock's voice from behind. "Wait."

I stopped and turned to face him. "What?" I said and sniffled. I whipped a tear from my eye. I didn't even know I was crying until this moment. 

"I'll walk home with you."

I rolled my eyes at him. The only reason he wanted to walk home with me was to make sure I didn't make any rash decisions. I wasn't the most stable person since coming back from Russia, this was the tipping point and Sherlock knew it. However I knew I wasn't going to make any rash decisions today. I was too exhausted to do anything besides sleep. "What did Mycroft say?"

"So far I think we're just going to carry on like normal. We're going to wait until he makes the first move. Mycroft of course will be upgrading his surveillance to look for him. He'll be the one that is really going to be working right now. That is the plan," Sherlock said and hailed a cab.

"We're just going to pretend like nothing happened?" I said as I tried to not raise my voice above normal. I felt like yelling at him. I had enough people die in my life! I didn't want to carry on like normal because normal didn't exist anymore. I was never going back to normal. It was way too late for that.

Sherlock shook his head at me. "No, I didn't say that. We are going to go on and carry on without openly looking for Moriarty. First I think we are going to give Kale a proper burial."