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Welcome! (Prompting: part i)

Jul 26, 2010 11:58

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This is a fic prompting meme based around the BBC series Sherlock, written by Stephen Moffat & Mark Gattis.

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FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy anonymous August 8 2010, 05:37:31 UTC

Four

NEED URGENT ASSISTANCE AT BAKER ST. SH.

BRING CURRY. SH.

ALSO GARLIC NAAN. MRS H WANTS MANGO LASSI. SH.

I MAY HAVE DESTROYED THE TELEVISION. SH.

HAVE DEFINITELY DESTROYED TELEVISION. SH.

PLEASE BRING HOME NEW TELEVISION. AND CURRY. SH.

Five

He checked his phone again, as if maybe the battery had died at some point in the last two minutes since he'd checked. No messages, battery charged, plenty of reception... No messages.

The clock didn't actually make a sound as the minutes ticked over, but John heard it anyway; the imaginary grinding of enormous gears and the thud-clunk of tumblers, and still his phone was conspicuously silent.

No sound of footsteps on the stairs, either. Mrs Hudson was not chatting happily with anyone on the ground floor. No ambulance sirens, which he told himself was good. No sounds of police coming to knock on his door and say... what? We're terribly sorry sir but your, uh. Boyfriend?

Friend. Partner. Flatmate. Significant Other.

Your Sherlock is dead, sir. Our condolences.

The front door downstairs slammed, and the sound of someone trotting up seventeen steps, and then the door opened and there he was, dishevelled and distracted and wearily wonderful and John wanted to murder the bastard, he really did.

"What?" Sherlock blinked at him, confused, and held up the plastic bag in his right hand. "Lestrade made his arrests. I brought chips."

One

He panted out a shocky little laugh, pressing one hand hard against the bleeding furrow on his outer thigh. Deep, he judged, plenty of stitches in his future, but nothing to get the bugle out over.

"Not so psychosomatic anymore," he giggled, and waited for Sherlock to laugh as well.

Silence, and John glanced upward into a face so white it might have been made entirely of polished bone. Bloodless and terrified, and Sherlock's eyes were wilder than anything he had seen in war.

"It's just a flesh wound," he said lamely, and watched Sherlock's expression turn anguished for a second, maybe two, before he blinked rapidly and huffed out a breath.

"Of course it is," he snapped. "And you're bleeding all over my crime scene." John could still see the whites of his eyes, though, and the hand he pressed down against the wound was ice-cold and shaking. "Be more careful next time." A pause, and a shuddering inhale. "Please, John."

It was almost worth it, to see the heart behind the machine.

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy anonymous August 8 2010, 06:00:44 UTC

THE LAST ONE. OH, THE LAST ONE.

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy lauralaitaine August 8 2010, 07:51:34 UTC

Oh, anon! This was brilliant! What with the showing not telling (♥ ♥ ♥) and Sherlock being so Sherlock and John being so steadfastly John. And that last one... beautiful. ♥

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy compactstars August 8 2010, 09:15:02 UTC

Four made me snort and three hurt my heart. You're amazing, authoranon.

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy twistedsheets10 August 8 2010, 09:43:54 UTC

Oh God this is BEAUTIFUL.

I love the last bit, but the fourth blew my brains out. Oh Sherlock. XD

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy verasteine August 8 2010, 12:52:59 UTC

Oh, lovely. Very well written, very touching.

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy anonymous August 8 2010, 13:14:43 UTC

OP here! OP is thrilled! :)

Number four had me laughing out loud and that last part was just perfect. You do a great job of capturing their relationship here, with all of its ups and downs. I loved it!

Thank you so much for filling my prompt!

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy dracutgrl August 8 2010, 15:03:38 UTC

Bring home TV and curry. Heeee. You can get that at Harrods, right?

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy ferretmalfoy August 8 2010, 21:38:16 UTC

Brilliant. <3

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy rubychan05 August 9 2010, 00:23:45 UTC

Absolutely loved it. Especially the last one and your use of the final line!

And the texts. And the chips. And the drugs (?). And the...aw hell. All of it!

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy faeana August 9 2010, 20:31:22 UTC

Loved the canon shoutout with the last one :) Thanks for writing.

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy omegaphones August 9 2010, 21:57:22 UTC

This is PERFECT, you know that? Number four is HILARIOUS. And the +1 . . . :') So sweet.

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy anonymous August 10 2010, 08:29:27 UTC

This is fucking epic, is what. The way each of them is a little bit of what it's like to know Sherlock, what it's like to be with him and tolerate him and like him, in spite of yourself ... it's just really, really clever. And it tells you about John at the same time too which is even better. The last one! The second one! I COULD NEVER PICK ONE. Please write more and anonymously link us to them all! :)

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy search_soleil August 13 2010, 11:06:16 UTC

The entire fic was great (the text messages, hahaha, dying), but oh God, the canon shoutout, I think I swooned.

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy anonymous August 13 2010, 20:49:18 UTC

PLEASE BRING HOME NEW TELEVISION. AND CURRY. SH.

I've had this same message from a person I was living with, except he was a psychopath instead of a sociopath, so I must have been living with Moriarty. Explains rather a lot, really.

Brilliant, BTW. xxx

Re: FILL 2/2: 5 reasons it is hard to be Sherlock's *mumblecough* + 1 reason it's actually very easy polaris_starz August 14 2010, 09:06:07 UTC

The third one and the last one destroyed me, the latter all the more because of the Garridebs parallel (I assume that was what you were doing there?).

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