Fic: Overreaction [BBC Sherlock}

[keerawa]

Title: Overreaction
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating PG
Characters: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Length: 221B
Alternate Link: AO3
Author's Notes: Written for the watsons_woes JWP Prompt #11: Save the bees. Unbeta'd and written while half-asleep, so please feel free to offer con-crit.
Summary: The confrontation with Moriarty has left its mark on each of them.

Comments

[rojo3131]

Teehee!! I feel bad for Sherlock but quite good for the bee! Go John!!!

[keerawa]

Thanks Rojo!

[donutsweeper]

Awww John, you're such a softie at heart.

[keerawa]

Sometimes he is! And sometimes not ...
Thanks for the comment, donutsweeper.

[tardisjournal]

So John has compassion for all creatures, great and small! Or maybe just a soft spot for bees. Either way, I approve. :)

[keerawa]

I couldn't work it into the 221B, but Sherlock's especially preplexed because, just a month earlier, he saw John systematically kill dozens, if not hundreds, of ants that had made a mest in the cupboard. John is such a puzzle to him.

Thanks, tardisjournal!

[tardisjournal]

Ooo, intriguing backstory! Maybe you could write a prequel, prompts willing. Or a sequel where Sherlock asks John to explain this most vexing contradiction. :-p

[gardnerhill]

John probably uses a jar and cardboard to get the spiders in Sherlock's bedroom too. ("I'm not afraid of them, John," Sherlock insists from 20 feet away, while his flatmate rescues the arachnid on the ceiling over his bed.)

[keerawa]

*laughs* That's perfect, I can so picture it!

[monkeybard]

Oh, well done, John! It can't have been easy resisting the temptation to smack Sherlock on the head, but the bee was much more important than a moment of gratification. ;-)

[keerawa]

Yes, the 'hit me in the face' was entirely sub-text that time. *grins* Thanks, monkeybard!