workaphilic: (the final problem;)
Sherlock Holmes ([personal profile] workaphilic) wrote in [community profile] paradisa2012-06-08 10:42 pm
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018 || written/dictated; (BACKDATED → late afternoonish)

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PARADISA

Obvious from the start. Not even worth the mental energy. Castle takes them, figuratively, literally. Castle brings them back. Cyclical. Pointless.

[He draws the underline hard enough to tear through the page. He exhales loudly, harshly (frustration, anger, noise) and there's the whine of a chair being dragged across hardwood.

The kidnappings, this "mirror" world, it's all been a blip to him. There was a flicker of interest, in the middle, but it's more or less resolved now, with all the justice-minded residents fighting the good fight to get their comrades home. Lovely story, really, all wrapped up in a bow.

But it's not helping anymore, this protracted game of tag they're playing with the castle. Been reduced to running in circles, chasing their tails. He's sick of it, has been. The only reason he's still playing is for the distraction, for the
puzzle, a way to keep his mind from spinning itself off the rails.

(Kidnapping, 2007, 12-year-old girl tore her nails off her hands trying to claw her way out of a padded crate on a cargo ship.)

Makes him restless, irritable, nauseous. Psychological effects bleeding into physiological ones. The situation has always been an obviously temporary one, but this is becoming unlivable.

He needs a case.]


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[ Jim Moriarty ]

How long has it been, now? Three months? Three whole months and the place is just as placid and boring as it was before you decided to drop in. Didn't realize a magic castle was all it took to cow you. I expected better.

Come on, Jim. I'm waiting.

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[When he speaks to the castle at large, it's with all of the frustration pressed out of his tone. He's calm, musing -- and almost pleasant. He doesn't even really care if anyone's paying attention to this page of the journal.]

Stirring, isn't it, the camaraderie in this place. Some of these people you know, most of them you don't, and here you are, furiously scribbling away to pull them out from under the castle's thumb. Unified force against a common enemy.

[There's a small pause. If he's being sarcastic or derisive he doesn't really sound like it.]

Makes one wonder.
jimfromit: (with his best friend)

Sherlock Holmes

[personal profile] jimfromit 2012-06-10 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah ok nothing that comes close to our little game's back home.

[pauses for a moment.] Sherlock do you know what the problem with getting what you want is?
Edited 2012-06-10 23:33 (UTC)
jimfromit: (Aviators are cool)

Sherlock Holmes

[personal profile] jimfromit 2012-06-12 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's that you really do get what you want.

Hold that thought love.

[And that’s the sound of a journal being closed.]