Prompting Part XXV
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“Well-honestly, I suppose there's no point in not telling you. Moriarty had snipers pointed at you, Lestrade, and Mrs. Hudson, and he told me I had to jump to save your lives. I tried to talk him into calling them off, but the maniac shot himself before I could get anywhere with that. Not exactly what I'd predicted. Anyway I knew he'd have some such scheme in mind with regards to you, so I put precautions into place to ensure I'd survive. I think it's gone quite well.”
“Wait a minute-so that's what happened? You risked your life to save me?”
“Not my life. Humans survive falls ten times that high every year; don't you think that's fascinating enough that I would've studied how they do it?”
“But your spine. You'd risk paralysis. I'm a doctor; I know there's no way someone can make a jump like that without a significant risk of catastrophic spinal injury.”
“Well-there weren't a lot of other options. I thought about it, and I did consider walking away. Bart's isn't the tallest building in the world, but I knew it would be quite a painful fall. I hesitated; I almost convinced myself it was too late and I should just climb down. But then you picked up the phone, and I heard you talking on the other end. I knew at that point that if you died because of me, it would cause a serious and long-term detriment to my concentration, which would hamper my work.”
“Oh, I see,” said John, smiling at his friend's effort to hide the tenderness of emotion that had caused him to throw himself from a building to save the people he loved. “A detriment to your concentration, that's all. Sherlock, thank you for telling me. Thank you-for saving my life. You shouldn't say you're not the hero. What you did on top of St. Bart's was pure heroism. There's just no other way to put it and you shouldn't try to frame it as anything else.” Sherlock scoffed mildly, but John knew better; and he decided to ask his other remaining question while Sherlock seemed to be willing to answer it.
“One more thing-you said you couldn't think of a way to make this work without me. But I've thought of three since we got here, and if I have, I can only imagine that you've got loads.”
“And if I have? Just because there were other, theoretically possible ways of faking my death that don't involve your knowledge doesn't mean they are at all possible outside the realm of theory.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, in any case, that a doctor is indispensable for any version of this scenario. You were definitely the most convenient and trustworthy choice.”
“Oh, I see,” John nodded, feeling just a twinge of disappointment.
“And also, is there any other way I could survive months of immobility and recovery? I'd be lost without my blogger,” Sherlock said, his smile slightly constricted by the bandages round his head.
John just patted Sherlock's cast and smiled.
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I've been racking through the old filled prompts and found this diamond in the ruff! It's heartwarming :)
Nice fill!
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