Sherlock/Dresden Files: One War Zone for Another

[awanderingbard]

Title: One War Zone for Another
Characters: John, Forrester (OC), Sherlock, Harry
Rating: R
Warnings: language, a racial slur (not used by any of our heros), slightly detailed descriptions of sutures being put in
Spoilers: Forrester basically sums up Somnus in the middle of this, so if you haven't read that, but would like to, beware of major

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[aelfgyfu_mead]

invented superfast local anestheticI don't think you did, actually. I went to the dermatologist just last week, and he gave me an injection in the back of my hand to do a biopsy of something there, and he said, "Let's give that a minute to work" and went to the other side of the exam table to get his stuff. Then he walked right back and started cutting, and I didn't feel a thing. I couldn't believe it. It took less time than I've already spent typing on this comment. (Anesthetic for a deeper wound might take a little longer, but I think their conversation is long enough

[awanderingbard]

he gave me an injection in the back of my hand to do a biopsy of something there

I hope it was for nothing serious!

I think I was looking at it from a dentist point of view, which always takes forever and doesn't work for me anyway. I've never had local anywhere else, I'm happy to say.

I feel a bit bad for John and Sherlock that they'll never know the truth! But Sherlock couldn't handle the truth, and John seems highly averse to it here.

Oh, they may come round to it eventually. I toyed with how I wanted John to react, but I do think he's a man of science first. I see him as being more open to it than Sherlock, once he's given proof, but until then, probably pretty skeptical. But I also see him as a live and let live fellow, so not too terribly judgmental. But a little judgmental. Because Sherlock Holmes probably wears off on a person. Though, I also see Sherlock pretty uncaring in terms of beliefs like religion. I don't think he'd give a toss who you worshipped. He'd just judge you for it. /ramble

It's nice to see John getting

[aelfgyfu_mead]

The hand thing isn't serious; it's a question of whether it was a wart, a cyst, or a pimple, I think. If I'd known that a) he'd think those weren't warts and b) he was going to take so much skin off the back of my hand, though, I'd never have called the doctor!

John kept being on the verge of connecting the dots and then stepping back, but I too would rather believe I was attacked by a person in a wolf suit than a werewolf.

I keep giggling thinking of Sherlock getting more and more frustrated.

[awanderingbard]

I had something like that a little while ago. I thought, 'oh, I'll show it to my doctor next time I go in for prescription renewal' and, Canadian healthcare being what it is, by the time I got an appointment, it had already drained itself. Universal healthcare: making you make yourself healthy before we can even examine you.

I figure that Sherlock would be really, really angry if he couldn't figure something out. I picture him as the sort of person who sits with a rubic's cube for days on end because he will solve it, and just can't let it go until he knows the answer.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

from a dentist point of view, which always takes forever and doesn't work for me anyway.
Do you have red hair? My husband found dental anesthetic worked so badly for him that unless it's a very bad cavity (or wisdom tooth removal), he asks it to be without anesthetic. He'd get the shot, and the shot would hurt; then he'd have the drilling, and that would hurt; and then the pain from the drilling would stop, but the shot site would bother him all day

[awanderingbard]

I'm not a redhead, but my other has issues with her nerves not being in the right place or something, so where the freezing normally goes in is not where the nerve is in her mouth. I think I probably have something similar. And we have a newish dentist, so he'd not as familliar with us and I think my old dentist just froze half our mouth as a precaution, but the new one just freezes the specific tooth and it never works and when it does, the freezing wears off at the worst possible moment. I keep trying to tell him to put more freezing in from the start, but for some reason, he'd rather wait until I'm in extreme pain before adding more freezing.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

AUGH! AUGH! I'd be looking for a new dentist. After the first time, you'd think he'd learn!

[awanderingbard]

I had to have a root canal done a little while back, a surprise one because the original didn't go deep enough to get all the gunk out. Thankfully the nerve was dead, but he had to refreeze me halfway through. It was not fun.

He's getting better. He's a young guy, taking over from the dentist I've had since I was a kid. He just needed some experience, I think. He also had a very sick baby for awhile, so I think he was stressed. And our old dentist still works some days, so it's worth staying there for now. But yeah, we were looking for other options for a while there.