john and the bomb
anonymous
May 24 2011, 05:16:05 UTC
"It's a bomb, Sherlock, and its timer is your pet's heartbeat. If you attempt to remove it, it will explode. When the timer counts enough beats (and I'm not telling you how many you've got left because where's the fun in that?), John will explode and take everything within a mile radius with him. You could slow his heart rate to give yourself more time -- I imagine his little heart must be going pitter-pat right now -- but really in the end, you have one choice. Only one. Kill John Watson to stop the bomb going off, or let it go off and he dies anyway, along with anyone nearby. Either way, I win."
TL;DR John has a bomb inside him, counting down. The only way to stop it is for him to die.
Count the Inflammable Minutes (1/2)tawabidsMay 24 2011, 15:55:27 UTC
Run, run, run, you are Sherlock Holmes, you are clever, you are very, very clever and you will solve this, you WILL SOLVE THIS or so be it that will be the END. Your footsteps echo on concrete, you calculate the height of the roof by how long it takes the footsteps to return to your ears, and then you hit the loading doors, clang! But they won't open, no matter how you haul at them. By the reverberated clatter, they are chained from the outside. No lock pick, no battering ram, no axe on earth can put you on the far side of the sheet metal door to access that chain
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Count the Inflammable Minutes (2/2)tawabidsMay 24 2011, 15:58:40 UTC
Damn! Damn! DAMN! You shout the words, slam your gloved fists into the concrete. Nothing! Nothing delicate enough for the interior workings of that cutting-edge military device. You get up and run, run, run back to the office. Pull the drawers onto the floor. Upend the jar of sweets. Tear the calendar off the wall. Look for the tools to work with spectacles, clocks, anything, there must be SOMETHING
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Re: Count the Inflammable Minutes (2/2)
anonymous
May 24 2011, 16:15:50 UTC
Good Lord this is brilliant; Sherlock's stream-of-consciousness strikes the perfect balance between frantic and uniquely logical, uniquely HIM. I don't think I breathed the whole time I was reading it.
Re: Count the Inflammable Minutes (2/2)zevbaldwinMay 24 2011, 16:23:59 UTC
Wonderfil! "You would give one in each two pulses to John, if you could. You would wire the two of you together, chest to chest, and your ventricles would close once for you, once for John. Once for you, once for John. You would both have to take things carefully, perhaps you would even live half as long, but you would do it. If for no other reason than to pay back John’s heart." - this is so much love. Excellent!
OP - Re: Count the Inflammable Minutes (2/2)
anonymous
May 25 2011, 05:14:37 UTC
OH MY GOD. I love it! I love the second person stream of consciousness adrenaline rush of this, and then the sheer poetry of Sherlock's thoughts while waiting for news. It's wonderful and brilliant! Thank you! :D
Re: Count the Inflammable Minutes (2/2)
anonymous
May 25 2011, 09:37:50 UTC
Second person fics are tricky to do, but if you get them right, they're gorgeous. Like this one here. Wonderful grasp of Sherlock's thoughts when he's caught halfway between sheer panic for John's life and the determination to win the game with Moriarty.
Re: Count the Inflammable Minutes (2/2)lindentreeisleMay 26 2011, 19:20:25 UTC
You are a genius. This is the second fill I've seen from you today. Are you new to the fandom and/or kinkmeme? Or have I just somehow missed you before?
TL;DR John has a bomb inside him, counting down. The only way to stop it is for him to die.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_and_the_Bomb
And now I want to reread the books.
Other than that I really would like to see a fill to this.
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the heart is a clock, just like a bomb it keeps on ticking away, counting down to detonate
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"You would give one in each two pulses to John, if you could. You would wire the two of you together, chest to chest, and your ventricles would close once for you, once for John. Once for you, once for John. You would both have to take things carefully, perhaps you would even live half as long, but you would do it. If for no other reason than to pay back John’s heart." - this is so much love. Excellent!
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Utterly amazing. Just gorgeous. Well done indeed.
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*is quiet*
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