Fanfiction | Fandom: Sherlock/Madness of Angels | Title: Voices | 1/1
Title: Voices
Fandom: Sherlock (with a bit of the universe of Kate Griffin’s A Madness of Angels thrown in)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Very, very AU, spoilers for episode 3
Summary: Sometimes voices are just pieces to a person. Sherlock has two.
Notes: Because Benedict Cumberbatch looks like a cat and the fantasy addict in me wishes this could or would happen. (The rest of me likes that a normal person can make his observations, so this is probably a oneshot.) No knowledge of Griffin’s world is needed for this (though it's a fantastic book--I'm reading the sequel now, and I highly recommend them), just know that a wereman is a lycanthrope who can change into several different urban animals. (Yes, I know “wereman” is redundant.)
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Voices weren’t always madness. Sometimes they were just pieces to a person, or to… whatever Sherlock was. Could you call a person a person if they were only a person some of the time? Were they still a person if sometimes they were a cat, or a rat, or a fox?
That was the question. The question asked by one of the two voices warring in Sherlock’s head, two pieces to his… being.
That one asked, did it matter?
Did it devalue his observations so much if he made them with senses stronger than a human’s?
Did it make him so much less of a person if he sometimes roamed the city with four legs instead of two?
Was he really less of a genius if he used the nose of a fox and the eyes of a cat to search the streets?
Was he less worth saving because he could have escaped the sniper in a second by changing shape?
Was he less worth saving because with the strength he had, he could have gotten them both out of the rubble?
Was he less of a person because his rapid healing wasn’t due to luck but to species?
Would John really hate him if he knew?
Did being a-even in his mind he choked on the word-did being a wereman change things so much?
The one voice agonized over this.
The other voice simply answered, yes.
Fandom: Sherlock (with a bit of the universe of Kate Griffin’s A Madness of Angels thrown in)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Very, very AU, spoilers for episode 3
Summary: Sometimes voices are just pieces to a person. Sherlock has two.
Notes: Because Benedict Cumberbatch looks like a cat and the fantasy addict in me wishes this could or would happen. (The rest of me likes that a normal person can make his observations, so this is probably a oneshot.) No knowledge of Griffin’s world is needed for this (though it's a fantastic book--I'm reading the sequel now, and I highly recommend them), just know that a wereman is a lycanthrope who can change into several different urban animals. (Yes, I know “wereman” is redundant.)
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Voices weren’t always madness. Sometimes they were just pieces to a person, or to… whatever Sherlock was. Could you call a person a person if they were only a person some of the time? Were they still a person if sometimes they were a cat, or a rat, or a fox?
That was the question. The question asked by one of the two voices warring in Sherlock’s head, two pieces to his… being.
That one asked, did it matter?
Did it devalue his observations so much if he made them with senses stronger than a human’s?
Did it make him so much less of a person if he sometimes roamed the city with four legs instead of two?
Was he really less of a genius if he used the nose of a fox and the eyes of a cat to search the streets?
Was he less worth saving because he could have escaped the sniper in a second by changing shape?
Was he less worth saving because with the strength he had, he could have gotten them both out of the rubble?
Was he less of a person because his rapid healing wasn’t due to luck but to species?
Would John really hate him if he knew?
Did being a-even in his mind he choked on the word-did being a wereman change things so much?
The one voice agonized over this.
The other voice simply answered, yes.