"Díoltas" (Sherlock BBC), Rated PG

[gardnerhill]

Title: Díoltas
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Pairing: None
Word Count: 500
Rating: PG (horror)
Warning: Death. So very much death.
Summary: There’s something different about Sherlock’s grave.
Author's Notes: Written for the Watsons Woes Challenge 026 for October 2014, "Ghost Story"

Comments

[mrs_tilford]

::shudders:: Ewww - and I mean that in the nicest way. Very well done!

[gardnerhill]

Thanks. Jim Moriarty would make a NASTY vengeful ghost.

[capt_facepalm]

Creepy! And I mean that in the nicest way.
Also, very clever title. (I had to look it up)

[gardnerhill]

Thanks. Irish-Gaelic doesn't seem to have a term for vengeful ghosts, so I went with "revenge"

Jim would make a terrifying vengeance-spirit, especially since he took his own life. This is a salt-and-burn-the-bones job.

[stellinia]

That surprised me. I really did think Sherlock was going to come out of the grave. Poor boys :(

(P.S. I loved the line " but old Army campaigners knew that walls were challenges, not obstacles.")

[gardnerhill]

The origin of this story was John dreaming (during the Hiatus) that he is seized by Sherlock's restless corpse - but instead of being terrified he starts digging trying to free him. In reality though Sherlock's grave was empty and Moriarty was dead. This is just the kind of horrific prank Jim would pull if he was a vengeance-ghost.

I liked that line too!