[Fiction] friday, Aug. 31/07

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for August, 31 2007:

Pick a famous fictional character (for our purposes here it can be any character from fiction, mythology, legend, comic books…whatever) and give them a secret vice—at the very least it should be distasteful if not outright illegal. Now give the character’s rationale in their own words.

It's been three months since Holmes and his Arch enemy Professor James Moriarty plunged into the gorge at Reinbock Falls and he still is unable to come to terms with the death of his best friend and confident. He had followed Holmes up to the top of the gorge only to find evidence of a great struggle, evidence even an amatuer like himself could deduce, but no physical evidence of either Holmes or Moriarty. What would Holmes of said; " Elementary my dear Watson, they obviously engaged in mortal combat and plunged to their deaths.

He sat at his desk ,with pen poised wondering if he should write in his journal what he now has come to suspect about the life of his partner Sherlock Holmes. That Holmes and Moriarty were one and the same. That Moriarty was in fact Holmes' dark side, a reflection of Holmes' paranoia.

He had never seen Professor Moriarty and had taken Holmes' description as the gospel truth. But now....but now he has some disturbing doubts of Moriartys' existence outside of his friends mind. Everything about his friend was a dichotomy, a canvas of contradictory colors. He could be warm and kind hearted in one instance and callous and cold the next. His personal affairs were a shambles, so disorganized that it was practically a full time job just to keep them in order but when he was on a case his observations were so organized and precise that he could detect the tiniest hair out of place.

In private Holmes' opinions and discourse on Women were at times borderline misogynistic. He had no use for them other then they abetted in the complexity of his investigations, of which he welcomed the challenge. When he was in their company he was the perfect Gentleman and would go to great lengths to preserve their honor. Holmes was once engaged to be married but as it turned out it was only to uncover needed evidence to solve the case on which he was working. There was enough duality in his personality to fill a journal.

What about the one thing that he knew about his friend that no one else knew. Holmes the master of deductive reasoning and scientific evidence had a secret source to his power that no one else knew but him. Should he put that in his journal or take it to his grave?

Wouldn't people years from now be shocked to read the Great detectives dirty little secret? He remembered the day that he first came face to face with this secret. Both Holmes and him had left to run some errands, well at least he was to run some errands, Holmes had an appointment with his solicitor and said that he would be out for the day and would return after supper. After returning home with Holmes' suits that he had picked up at the cleaners, he proceeded into the dressing room to put them away only to his great shock, find Holmes standing in front of a mirror dressed in nothing but a black garter belt and silk stockings and women's black silk underwear.

He remembered being terribly embarrassed and apologized profusely for not knocking. " Nonsense Watson" replied Holmes without so much as a hint of embarrassment; "How would you know that I made it back to the house so soon? I guess your wondering what I'm doing wearing women's undergarments " he said; " The truth is I wear them all the time when I'm working on a case. They help me free myself from conventional thinking. I get in touch with my other side. I am able to see more with my eyes. I hear more beyond the spoken words . It's really quite elementary my dear Watson, women intuit more then men and this in turn aids me in making the proper deductions. " Right" ! I said; That makes perfect sense Holmes". I then turned and walked out of the room never to mention it again.

He Wondered if he should write this down and make it known to future generations, after all it might be the only explanation of the truth should they one day discover the body at the bottom of the Gorge, then again maybe they would think that it wasn't Holmes at all, but Moriarty.