John is kidnapped. A live video feed is sent to Sherlock. Ever few hours, Sherlock is forced to answer a multiple choice question. The question?
What should we do to him now?
Every question contains a form of torture as the answer. With each question, the torture gets worse, mor debilitating. And, with each question, Sherlock has the option of choosing the final answer; kill him.
Ending up to author. If you choose to have john be rescued, i would love a great deal of caring from sherlock.
Re: Multiples FILL 4/?
anonymous
May 19 2011, 02:10:28 UTC
On the table, John shuffles. The drug is indeed wearing off, but he’s still as weak as a kitten. There are two others, from what Sherlock can make out. They’re tall and dressed in black combats and balaclavas. Their bearing is military. Mercenaries, then, or thrown out of the army in disgrace. They’re too young to have been retired, and there’s no sign of injury that would have had them sent home early.
One pins John down, the other stretches out one of John’s arms, holding a dark metal hammer that is solid at one end and clawed at the other. The design used to hammer nails into fences, or pull them out. It’s larger, and looks heavier, than is standard.
Moriarty’s chuckles are the background noise to John’s struggles and shouts. The camera wobbles as Moriarty moves closer. He zooms in on John’s face, which fills the screen, panicked and frightened and still fighting“They’re doing his right hand first,” says Moriarty by way of commentary, zooming out to get a better picture. One of the mercenaries, the one pinning John down with sick
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Re: Multiples FILL 4/?morganstuartMay 19 2011, 11:00:24 UTC
Heartbreakingly amazing. I'm pretty sure John wouldn't have made this choice for himself (although I understand Sherlock wants him alive at all costs, even if John doesn't), which makes it all the more wrenching...
Re: Multiples FILL 4/?
anonymous
May 20 2011, 01:42:47 UTC
Oh good God. His HANDS.
What gets me most, though, is not the physical torture but the sheer cruelty of it all. Making Sherlock choose. And then calling John "a proper cripple" -- that was so, so clearly designed to HURT. Moriarty is out to really wound both of them here.
Re: Multiples FILL 5/?
anonymous
May 21 2011, 01:43:04 UTC
lol posted this in the wrong place :P
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Sherlock panics as the camera cuts out, refreshing the page, but the feed doesn’t return. He swears under his breath and refrains from mashing the keyboard. A message pops up on the IM chat.
M: Every hour. Don’t go anywhere, sweetie!
Sherlock is practically spitting in fury.
S: Why are you doing this?
The cursor blinks unhelpfully. There's no reply.
Sherlock flings the laptop off of his belly onto the cushions and leaps to his feet, feverishly pacing out his thoughts. Moriarty has John. And all Sherlock can do is wait for the torture to start up again. Every hour? How is John supposed to survive that? And the worst part is that Sherlock is incapable of helping him.
No, he can act. He must. But how? This isn’t a police matter. Moriarty almost certainly has a mole in Lestrade’s department, must have to evade capture for so long, and Lestrade is the only one Sherlock would trust with a matter as delicate as this. Besides, if Moriarty found out that Sherlock was trying to track him
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What should we do to him now?
Every question contains a form of torture as the answer. With each question, the torture gets worse, mor debilitating. And, with each question, Sherlock has the option of choosing the final answer; kill him.
Ending up to author. If you choose to have john be rescued, i would love a great deal of caring from sherlock.
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One pins John down, the other stretches out one of John’s arms, holding a dark metal hammer that is solid at one end and clawed at the other. The design used to hammer nails into fences, or pull them out. It’s larger, and looks heavier, than is standard.
Moriarty’s chuckles are the background noise to John’s struggles and shouts. The camera wobbles as Moriarty moves closer. He zooms in on John’s face, which fills the screen, panicked and frightened and still fighting“They’re doing his right hand first,” says Moriarty by way of commentary, zooming out to get a better picture. One of the mercenaries, the one pinning John down with sick ( ... )
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*Looks at heart on floor* look at that! *Points* that's my heart! On the floor!! It just dropped out!!
You are amazing. Thank you, thank you THANK YOU!!!
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I'm so glad you're the one filling this prompt, Anon. *salutes you and your marvelous fic*
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We're only just getting started too.
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What gets me most, though, is not the physical torture but the sheer cruelty of it all. Making Sherlock choose. And then calling John "a proper cripple" -- that was so, so clearly designed to HURT. Moriarty is out to really wound both of them here.
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Sherlock panics as the camera cuts out, refreshing the page, but the feed doesn’t return. He swears under his breath and refrains from mashing the keyboard. A message pops up on the IM chat.
M: Every hour. Don’t go anywhere, sweetie!
Sherlock is practically spitting in fury.
S: Why are you doing this?
The cursor blinks unhelpfully. There's no reply.
Sherlock flings the laptop off of his belly onto the cushions and leaps to his feet, feverishly pacing out his thoughts. Moriarty has John. And all Sherlock can do is wait for the torture to start up again. Every hour? How is John supposed to survive that? And the worst part is that Sherlock is incapable of helping him.
No, he can act. He must. But how? This isn’t a police matter. Moriarty almost certainly has a mole in Lestrade’s department, must have to evade capture for so long, and Lestrade is the only one Sherlock would trust with a matter as delicate as this. Besides, if Moriarty found out that Sherlock was trying to track him ( ... )
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You glorious, wonderful anon! Oh, dear. I never imagined such talent and beauty and horror would emerge when I posted my prompt.
And perfect you...you have made my night. My night here I was all set to pout in my bed because of major oral surgery...and I find this.
Thank you.
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