Tuesday - Reset

[mustbethursday3]

So it's Tuesday, & yet I'm still mustbethursday3

Today's theme is 'Reset'

The idea is that YOU have the power to change the past: Any dream sequence/hallucination that should have been fact. Any misleading promo about a storyline you've been dying for that TPTB hinted at and never did. Any time a storyline wasn't finished properly. Any time the Show took a certain

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[meteorfire]

Sherlock (BBC), John + any, John didn't meet Mike Stamford in the park--instead, he took a certain taxi...

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[ammcj062]

Sherlock examines this stocky stranger in police custody (a precaution, just until they can clear things up, Lestrade obviously has no interest in prosecuting the fellow) from the top of his military-cut head to the soles of his charity-bin feet. He knows the man is a veteran, back from the Middle East due to the psychosomatic limp he recently made great strides in lessening. He’s about three weeks away from being forced to leave London, despite the half-rations he’s put himself on to try and manage his budget, because while he was a good surgeon nobody wants to hire a doctor that walks with a limp. Bad for the image, you see.

More importantly, Sherlock also knows he’s a man with rock-steady nerves, a sharp mind, and no squeamishness for bodies or various parts of them. So when he steps sideways from Lestrade’s annoying monologue - he can see what happened, he doesn’t need it narrated through - he steps so he’s standing in front of the almost-victim. (John Watson is his name, the one useful piece of information Lestrade had imparted

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[ammcj062]

Watson’s eyes roam up and down Sherlock’s frame much as he had done to the man minutes before, cataloguing and organizing information. Bolder behavior than normal, presumably, due to the recent kidnapping. Survival instinct trumps social niceties, and it’ll be at least four more hours until said survival instincts begin receding. Sherlock notes the places his eyes wander - checking for visible calluses on the fingers, appraising musculature, brushing by all the places a professional would stash a weapon - and judges the examination inadequate (he missed the toe of the shoe, which assassins sometimes modify to hold a poison-tipped blade) and quite irrelevant, since Watson is evaluating for fighting proficiency when they obviously are not going to brawl in front of half of Scotland Yard. It’s the military mindset, finding value in a person’s physical prowess instead of their intelligence. Sherlock disdains such thinking, but tempered by Watson’s personality it would be bearable, so he patiently submits to the appraisal

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[tigriswolf]

Oh, that's wonderful.

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[meteorfire]

Oh, there IS more!

Definitely wonderful. I like how Sherlock can tell that John doesn't have strong feelings about the violin just from his "Pardon" and his views towards Watson and killing, and it being a respectable response to potential danger. And Donovan eavesdropping! <3

Thank you so much for writing this!

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[meteorfire]

Sorry I took so long, but my internet decided that it hated its existence just hours before you posted.

That aside, this is just lovely. I love how Sherlock's already moving past the unimportant things (the cabbie) and on to the important things (the potential flatmate). And of course John can fend for himself!

I see that this is 1 of 2. Does that mean I can expect more? *hopeful look*