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Angsty!John

[tashilover]

Doctor's lose patients sometimes. It happens. And the very first person to die under John's care (wasn't his fault, stuff just happens) was a woman named Anna.

When John was in Afghanistan, a man named Jeff dies under his care. Jeff was Anna's husband.

Back in London, while with Sherlock investigating a case, the daughter of Anna and Jeff is in danger of becoming the next victim of a serial killer. John tries to save her, but she too dies under his hands.

How does John cope with having a whole family dying under his care?

BONUS: (If you can add this dialogue)

"Dr. Watson... were you there, when my dad... died?"

"Yes."

"Thank you. It's nice to know he was with friends."

Re: Angsty!John

[tacotheshark]

This is an amazing idea.
Absolutely amazing.
Whoa.
I think I'm going to do it.

Re: Angsty!John

[tashilover]

YAY! You can change the names if you want- I only put them in there so there wouldn't be confusion of whom was married to whom.

Also, when I first read your name, I thought it said, 'Tasty Taco'. And I was like, "Wow! That's a great name!!"

Then I reread it and was like, "Taco the shark...? Now that doesn't make sense!" XD

Re: Angsty!John

[tacotheshark]

Okay this might take a while cause I have things to work on and stuff but I'll get it done and I'll let you know.

Re: Angsty!John

[tashilover]

YAY! I'm just glad to know you hadn't forgotten about it. I'm super-stoked to see where you might take this!

FILL: "Birdsong" 1/4

[tacotheshark]

I guess saying this would take a while made me want to do it more, I don't know. I was in school and it just sort of happened, which is cool.

Read at my journal.
Read on Ao3. Anna Milligan is a lovely woman, intelligent as well, with shining orange hair like fire, striking emerald eyes, and dreams of a beautiful future and life that she has never hesitates to share with anyone willing to listen. She’s brought so much hope to so many lives, with her smile and her words. She is everything one could want in a wife or a mother, and then she is so much more

FILL: "Birdsong" 2/4

[tacotheshark]

John Watson is a lone flower, surrounded on every side by miles and miles of cemetery. Each grave around him pulls on his heart, on his morality, siphons out his soul like it’s a ghost, a being that he is not and that is not him- and that soul has become so, so slippery in the fields of Afghanistan, he can’t possibly keep anything close to a firm grip

FILL: "Birdsong" 3/4

[tacotheshark]

John is the one to answer the door when DI Lestrade unexpectedly shows up, as Mrs. Hudson’s gone out and Sherlock is, as always, much too stubborn and lazy.

“John, hello,” Lestrade greets him, “may I speak to Sherlock?”

John shouts up the stairs, “Sherlock! “Busy!” Sherlock shouts in reply, though John knows he wasn’t busy a minute ago and he certainly isn’t now

FILL: "Birdsong" 4/4

[tacotheshark]

About a year after Megan’s death, John gets a call from the surgery on a day on which he isn’t working. “John, hello, this may be a bit uncalled for and I understand if you don’t want to come on,” says his coworker, Alice, “but a man got stabbed and when he was brought it, he saw your name on the schedule and he asked if you were available. Are you?”

“Do I know him?” John asks, wondering why anyone would possibly ask for him. “What’s his name?”

“Joseph Milligan,” replies Alice, as if she’s reading off a chart, which she probably is.

John’s already halfway out the door when he says, “Yes, yes, I’ll be right in,” hanging up his phone and tossing it haphazardly into his bag.

When John finds the right room and rushes inside, Alice tells him, “He was stabbed in the liver and he’s only got about a day.”

No, NO, John thinks and it reverberates in his head, the one thing keeping him from screaming it aloud being his reluctance to seem like a maniac at his work. Because he can’t do that, he walks over to the bed in which Joseph lies

Re: FILL: "Birdsong" 4/4

[kendra42]

OK, now I'm just horribly depressed! This was a really good story but I hope someone, maybe Sherlock if can not be an idiot for awhile, is there to comfort John.