One day we'll be standing round a body....

[danlef]

A short story which was meant to be shorter but then I'd never be able to get the picture out of my head and laid before your eyes.

Beta'ed (and vastly improved) by order_of_angels. Thanks for more than meets the eye.

Comments

[saschia]

ouuu dark... I will actually have to think on this one to know if I love it or if I just like the way you write...

[danlef]

Frankly, I would be surprised if anyone who comes regularly over here liked it. But there's been too much cream in my cups lately; and I like black tea sometimes...

[saschia]

Yes, that's true. I think the problem of Sherlock turning evil is an interesting twist in the fabric of that particular universe, but frankly, who would want that? Even I wouldn't, though I loved your "Fever", but there the main character was pushed by the society, antisocial and homophobic even maybe he was before but decided to really do the extreme thing only after the society did the extreme thing to him. Here Sherlock is just lost, it is not the society that does it to him, it is evil of one person and normal human behavior of another (John has to move on to heal) and that's the thing which is hard to bear.

[danlef]

Yeah, exactly. Here Sherlock is unhinged and always has been.

People don't like this. Even in real world, they tend to find excuses, treat everyone with understanding, shutting their minds before the fact that some things are not understandable and that there can be evil just for itself. Or not simply evil, just a lack of good or morals.

Well, psychopathic steam has been let off, I can go back to writing requested stories:)

[saschia]

well, that's the thing, we love Sherlock and we don't want him to be sociopathic... not to that degree... But I do understand him - lots of time the people we love and who love us back keep us from spinning off into asylum-level rage. He lost that one person who was able to do it for him. (but I still don't like that sgt. Donovan was right in the end)

[danlef]

Thank you for proving my point (you can't know which one but doesn't matter, I feel no end chuffed anyway):))))

I can imagine this being a part of a greater AU, where Sherlock was amoral (or emotionally unhinged and sociopathic) and been only held on the right side by Mycroft in his teenage years, then Lestrade - but then he anchored himself to John and when he lost him, he went off rails completely. Of course, he had enjoyed The Game, and he enjoys the "consulting criminal" job as well.