For Afterwards: Waiting

[emmyangua]

For Afterwards: Waiting

Rating: 15

Disclaimer: Not mine. Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss are nicer to them than I am.

Summary: “It’s up to you John,” he says softly. “Do it when you’re ready. If you don’t, we’ll wait it out together.” Sherlock is dying. These are his last days.

Warnings/Triggers: Dark Fic, Character Death, Terminal Illness

Ships: Sherlock/

Comments

[errantcomment]

Meep.
Excuse me.
I have to try and piece together my broken heart.
Just... Gorgeous.
Thank you.

[musical_lottie]

Oh man, you did it again. I knew what to expect (obviously) but I didn't quite know how ill!Sherlock would turn out. He turned out heartbreakingly real.

*curls up in the corner sobbing her heart out*

[warriorbot]

Stop it, stop it, stop it.

*deep breath*

As someone from a long-lived family married to someone from a short-lived one I think about this kind of thing rather more than I care to. Everything John thinks here touches a chord deep within me.

Great fiction is a way of experiencing things at one remove - a way of trying out the roads not (yet) traveled. And this is great fiction. Thank you for this - for being so...sensitive and so true.

I can't cry here and now but believe me, I'll be sobbing into my pillow tonight. And it will hurt but it will be cathartic. So thank you.

[axolotltoast]

That really very nearly made me cry. So, gosh, kudos. Beautifully sad, dahling.

[chocolateteacup]

Dear god. That was almost as heart breaking as the first one but in a different way. The end of the first one was like a punch in the stomach, this is more like an ache.