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Writing is what the cool kids do on Monday nights.

So this is part of a challenge I’m doing: write ficlets on 50 random words (out of a generator). I’m not gonna finish it if I keep making them so long. OTL.

Anyway, as you can probably tell, I’m doing it on NickxEllis. I kinda do loose interpretations of the words, ‘cause when I get inspired it’s not always gonna be on-topic. I thought I’d share a quick preview.

PLEASE critique my writing. PLEEEEASE.

13. How

Smooth fabric rubbed gently against his palms. The familiarity of the suit gave Ellis some comfort. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to slow the stream of warm saltwater lining his face. He pressed his face into the other’s neck, cold seeping into his skin.
How? That was the only question he dared to ask himself. His arms sagged. His moved his gaze to Nick’s still eyes, the eyes that always revealed whatever emotion his face withheld. His view traveled over a peaceful face to the man’s hair. Messy and loose, but perfect.
Ellis reached for a hand, one that dangled — dare he say it — lifelessly above the ground. He whispered a reassuring word to the body before him. Lowering the ghost inside its six foot deep cavern, Ellis choked out a short phrase he regretted never having said before.


rcmclachlan:

“Your hair is long.” Nora looks up as she walks out of the small bathroom, eyes glassy and rimmed with red, and lifts a hand to her wet hair. She is like Claire, Castiel realizes, in the way she is so very small, barely a blip in the course of Time, and yet a dynamo of human potential. A child thrust from her family to fill a role too big for her. He pities her, this little girl, and the losses she has suffered, will suffer. So very much like Claire Novak.“Yeah,” she murmurs, lowering her eyes, lip trembling. “It took a while to grow out. Long hair’s in. Boys like it.” “Is your hair long for that reason?” The rituals of human courtship still escape his grasp. It is a facet of humanity he will never comprehend. “Because… of a boy?”“No.” A tremulous smile flares, precarious and almost new. Precious. Such works of art, children. “But… I was hoping one would like it. On me. Jake Sheehan. We’re in a few classes together and we partnered up in lab a couple of times… He’s not like the other popular kids. He’s nice. He says hi to me in the hall or in the lunch line. I was going to ask him to the 8th grade dinner dance, but…” Her smile dies and she shakes her head. “But I guess that’s not going to happen.”It will not happen. Once the Seraph takes her, she will cease to be. There are no dinner dances in Nora’s future.She sniffs loudly, wetly, and attempts another smile. “What about you? And, uh, what’s his name — Dean?”Castiel stiffens. “I don’t understa —”“You watch him. Like, a lot. And the way you look at him… is he your boyfriend? Or, um, you know, your partner? Like… do you love him?”He opens his mouth to answer the question, then pauses when no answer is forthcoming. “I… don’t know. I have never been in love. Have you?” Nora snorts a laugh and wipes at her eyes. Perhaps she mourns for yet another thing she will never have. “I’m fifteen. So, no. But… you’ve really never been in love?”“I don’t understand what I feel for Dean. There are too many emotions, feelings, reactions… and I don’t know any of them. I don’t know if what I feel is… love.”“Maybe… don’t focus on the ‘what’. How do you feel?”“I feel… If someone took him, or kept him from me… I feel I would burn the universe down until I found him again. … Is that love?”Nora stares. “I think so.”

GOD. I LOVE THESE FICLETS SO MUCH IT HURTS.

rcmclachlan:

“Your hair is long.” 

Nora looks up as she walks out of the small bathroom, eyes glassy and rimmed with red, and lifts a hand to her wet hair. She is like Claire, Castiel realizes, in the way she is so very small, barely a blip in the course of Time, and yet a dynamo of human potential. A child thrust from her family to fill a role too big for her. He pities her, this little girl, and the losses she has suffered, will suffer. So very much like Claire Novak.

“Yeah,” she murmurs, lowering her eyes, lip trembling. “It took a while to grow out. Long hair’s in. Boys like it.” 

“Is your hair long for that reason?” The rituals of human courtship still escape his grasp. It is a facet of humanity he will never comprehend. “Because… of a boy?”

“No.” A tremulous smile flares, precarious and almost new. Precious. Such works of art, children. “But… I was hoping one would like it. On me. Jake Sheehan. We’re in a few classes together and we partnered up in lab a couple of times… He’s not like the other popular kids. He’s nice. He says hi to me in the hall or in the lunch line. I was going to ask him to the 8th grade dinner dance, but…” Her smile dies and she shakes her head. “But I guess that’s not going to happen.”

It will not happen. Once the Seraph takes her, she will cease to be. There are no dinner dances in Nora’s future.

She sniffs loudly, wetly, and attempts another smile. “What about you? And, uh, what’s his name — Dean?”

Castiel stiffens. “I don’t understa —”

“You watch him. Like, a lot. And the way you look at him… is he your boyfriend? Or, um, you know, your partner? Like… do you love him?”

He opens his mouth to answer the question, then pauses when no answer is forthcoming. “I… don’t know. I have never been in love. Have you?” 

Nora snorts a laugh and wipes at her eyes. Perhaps she mourns for yet another thing she will never have. “I’m fifteen. So, no. But… you’ve really never been in love?”

“I don’t understand what I feel for Dean. There are too many emotions, feelings, reactions… and I don’t know any of them. I don’t know if what I feel is… love.”

“Maybe… don’t focus on the ‘what’. How do you feel?”

“I feel… If someone took him, or kept him from me… I feel I would burn the universe down until I found him again. … Is that love?”

Nora stares. “I think so.”

GOD. I LOVE THESE FICLETS SO MUCH IT HURTS.


Holidays

whatsthesymbology:

centurione:

It’s snowing outside, and Sam can’t help but remember Cas’s first Christmas. They had spent the previous two days tirelessly explaining to Castiel the traditions surrounding the tree, the holly and mistletoe, the candy canes. Sam’s favorite moment had been watching Dean as he attempted to explain why they had “skewered” an angel atop the tree, and Castiel’s reaction when he discovered it was no one he knew after nearly two hours of intense investigation. Later, after the small tree in Bobby’s living room had been properly decorated, they had introduced Castiel to hot chocolate, and he had left Dean alone with the awkward ethereal being while he helped Bobby cook their Christmas dinner.

It’s snowing outside, and all Sam can hear is Dean’s whiskey-induced snores. There is no Christmas music playing the house, no brightly lit fur in Bobby’s living room. The holly and mistletoe and ornaments remain tightly wrapped in newspaper, packed away in the recesses of Bobby’s attic. Bobby is not laughing in the kitchen cooking Christmas dinner; his ‘Kiss the Cook’ apron is hanging on the peg by the stove. He has not worn it since the accident. There are no bright bulbs framing the outside of the house, no warm atmosphere. No holiday cheer. Instead, a dark silence has taken residence where smiles once lived, and instead of holiday movies, Sam sits on the leather couch clutching a beer and watching a news report about a hit-and-run during holiday shopping at the local mall. The living room is dim; Dean doesn’t like a bright house anymore. The shadows in his heart have moved to take the whole place, and the small table lamp is all Sam can do to keep himself from drowning in his brother’s sorrow.

It is snowing outside, and despite the roaring fire and heavy flannel shirt, Sam has never felt colder, or more alone.  

STOPPPPP IIIIIITTTT AUGH I CANNOT HANDLE THIS


OH GOD WHAT DID I JUST WRITE.

blaine-the-barista:

If there was one thing Tumblr hated, it was Missing-E. 

It had all started a few years ago, when Chrome had started getting popular in class and Explorer had become outcast. Tumblr had been in a relationship with Firefox at the time, not caring where his browsers were located, as long as people kept ‘blogging’ with him. 

That hadn’t changed, except that he found out everything was faster, more heated with Chrome. They had been happy for a while. 

Until Missing-E joined.

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This is the fucking best.

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Stormageddon's Loyal Peasant: Johnlock ficlet: I'll get some. Really? Really.

rachel4revenge:

lostwithoutmyboswell:

bingerdinkhumpydunky:

foreverwholockian:

ibeggedformercytwice:

ironspy:

Okay, everything else awesome about Scandal in Belgravia aside (which is actually everything)
Is anyone else imagining John and Sherlock playing a game of Cluedo that gets so heated Sherlock stabs the fucking board to the wall.

I giggled at the milk. 

“It was the dagger on the Cluedo board in the living room!”

This clearly happened because, somehow, John beat Sherlock at Cluedo.

Sorry guys i accidently a board game crack ficlet.
7:10Sherlock fails to grasp the concept of Cluedo. 7:18Sherlock still fails to grasp the concept of Cluedo. 7:23“Where’s the logic? How can i deduce the motives of plastic pieces?”7:26 There is a mad rush for the best Cluedo characters. In the end, John claims Colonel Mustard, Sherlock is Professor Plum, Mycroft has Reverend Green. Greg is left with Miss Peacock. 7:27Greg sulks. John tries not to laugh. 7:28 Sherlock asks if he can take Reverend Green in for interrogation. John explains that’s not how the game works. 
7:28John sees Lestrade’s cards reflected in the mirror behind him. He now knows it was the lead pipe. 
7:29Sherlock asks for all the other characters cooperation in recreating the scene of the crime. John explains that’s not how the game works.  7:32Sherlock wants to know if the victim is related to any of the suspects. John explains that’s not how the game works. 
7:33Mycroft can see through John’s paper due to the lamp behind him. He now knows it was the lead pipe in the kitchen.    7:34Lestrade can only seem to roll the numbers one or two and so never actually manages to get into any room. He sulks. 7:35Sherlock is choosing which room to enter, John gets out Miss Scarlet and has Colonel Mustard chat her up. 7:35Sherlock sees Miss Scarlet and Colonel Mustard getting a bit too friendly in the billiard room and decides to investigate.7:36Reverend Green gets restless whilst waiting for his turn and starts dancing with Mrs White in the ballroom. 7:37Sherlock thinks Mrs White has an uncanny resemblance to Mrs Hudson. 7:37 Mycroft chooses to say nothing. He is a little frightened that anything said against Mrs Hudson would result in him taking several trips out the window.  7:40John sees Mycroft flinch and forces back a smile. He agrees that yes, she does have an uncanny resemblance to Mrs White. 7:38The game has turned into a soap opera. Colonel Mustard is having an affair with Miss Scarlet who is engaged to Reverend Green. Professor Plum knocks over Miss White in a fit of rage and Miss Peacock seems to still be wandering around the corridors aimlessly.7:45John reveals the cards and wins the game, the truth is that it was Professor Plum in the kitchen with the lead pipe. Everyone looks at Sherlock with mock how could you expressions that soon crumble when he gasps “that cannot be right!” and looks for all the world as if he has just been framed for a real murder.7:46Sherlock refuses to accept that he was the murderer without knowing he was the murderer. 7:46Lestrade tells Sherlock it is just a game and he won’t be taken into police custody. 7:46Sherlock gives Lestrade the evils of a lifetime. 
7:50
 Sherlock throws Professor Plum like a toddler throwing a tantrum. John will find it a week later on top of the bookshelf. 
 7:47John proposes they play Monopoly.Sherlock proposes they burn Cluedo in the fiery depths of hell. 
8:00
 In the end, Sherlock stabs the Cluedo board to the wall in a fit of rage and John wonders, not for the first time, if the consulting detective is actually five years old.

LMAO BRILLIANCE!!

rachel4revenge:

lostwithoutmyboswell:

bingerdinkhumpydunky:

foreverwholockian:

ibeggedformercytwice:

ironspy:

Okay, everything else awesome about Scandal in Belgravia aside (which is actually everything)

Is anyone else imagining John and Sherlock playing a game of Cluedo that gets so heated Sherlock stabs the fucking board to the wall.

I giggled at the milk. 

“It was the dagger on the Cluedo board in the living room!”

This clearly happened because, somehow, John beat Sherlock at Cluedo.

Sorry guys i accidently a board game crack ficlet.

7:10
Sherlock fails to grasp the concept of Cluedo. 

7:18
Sherlock still fails to grasp the concept of Cluedo. 

7:23
“Where’s the logic? How can i deduce the motives of plastic pieces?”

7:26 
There is a mad rush for the best Cluedo characters. In the end, John claims Colonel Mustard, Sherlock is Professor Plum, Mycroft has Reverend Green. Greg is left with Miss Peacock. 

7:27
Greg sulks. John tries not to laugh. 

7:28 
Sherlock asks if he can take Reverend Green in for interrogation. John explains that’s not how the game works. 

7:28
John sees Lestrade’s cards reflected in the mirror behind him. He now knows it was the lead pipe. 

7:29
Sherlock asks for all the other characters cooperation in recreating the scene of the crime. John explains that’s not how the game works. 

7:32
Sherlock wants to know if the victim is related to any of the suspects. John explains that’s not how the game works. 

7:33
Mycroft can see through John’s paper due to the lamp behind him. He now knows it was the lead pipe in the kitchen.   

7:34
Lestrade can only seem to roll the numbers one or two and so never actually manages to get into any room. He sulks. 

7:35
Sherlock is choosing which room to enter, John gets out Miss Scarlet and has Colonel Mustard chat her up. 

7:35

Sherlock sees Miss Scarlet and Colonel Mustard getting a bit too friendly in the billiard room and decides to investigate.

7:36
Reverend Green gets restless whilst waiting for his turn and starts dancing with Mrs White in the ballroom. 

7:37
Sherlock thinks Mrs White has an uncanny resemblance to Mrs Hudson. 

7:37
 
Mycroft chooses to say nothing. He is a little frightened that anything said against Mrs Hudson would result in him taking several trips out the window.  

7:40
John sees Mycroft flinch and forces back a smile. He agrees that yes, she does have an uncanny resemblance to Mrs White. 

7:38
The game has turned into a soap opera. Colonel Mustard is having an affair with Miss Scarlet who is engaged to Reverend Green. Professor Plum knocks over Miss White in a fit of rage and Miss Peacock seems to still be wandering around the corridors aimlessly.

7:45
John reveals the cards and wins the game, the truth is that it was Professor Plum in the kitchen with the lead pipe. Everyone looks at Sherlock with mock how could you expressions that soon crumble when he gasps “that cannot be right!” and looks for all the world as if he has just been framed for a real murder.

7:46
Sherlock refuses to accept that he was the murderer without knowing he was the murderer. 

7:46
Lestrade tells Sherlock it is just a game and he won’t be taken into police custody. 

7:46
Sherlock gives Lestrade the evils of a lifetime. 

7:50

 Sherlock throws Professor Plum like a toddler throwing a tantrum. John will find it a week later on top of the bookshelf. 


7:47
John proposes they play Monopoly.
Sherlock proposes they burn Cluedo in the fiery depths of hell. 

8:00

 In the end, Sherlock stabs the Cluedo board to the wall in a fit of rage and John wonders, not for the first time, if the consulting detective is actually five years old.

LMAO BRILLIANCE!!


mirabilelectu:

Title: Yesterday (Was the Time of our Lives)

Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson

Genre: Angst. All the angst.

Wordcount: ~1,400

Warnings: Gratuitous post-Reichenbach angst.

Summary: “In that moment, Sherlock learns two things: what it is to have a heart, and how it feels to have it shatter.”

Author’s Notes: Loosely based on the song Someone Like You by Adele.

You are a coward, Sherlock Holmes. The detective takes another long pull on his cigarette, the fifth he has smoked this evening. You brought down the most dangerous criminal mastermind in the world and spent three years destroying his international network, and you can’t face your old flatmate. Pathetic. 

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oh my god why would you do that to me


they grew up heroes: The conversation.

7
Jan 07

I made Sherlock fanfiction oh dear

sokothefly:

It was 3 am and I was on a Sherlock binge on FF.net and this happened. It sucks, I know, but I haven’t written fanfic in years. I say it’s just a warm up story.  No Spoilers. I don’t own any of these characters, except Mitch. Mitch is mine. Don’t touch Mitch.

Caution: Implied drug use, depression, angsty-ness out the wazoo, eventual slash, and an american trying hard not to sound canadian. 

Hit read more if you’re really that desperate for something to dull the boredom of your motionless dash.

In the End


What have I become,

my sweetest friend?

everyone I know

goes away

in the end….

— Hurt by Nine Inch Nails

Sherlock Holmes is a lonely man. He’ll never admit it, of course, but he is. Dreadfully so. On the outside he is his usually strange self, solving puzzles in seconds that no normal person could in hours, fixing problems in a single sentence, starting them in single glances. Setting fire to the souls and kitchens of women all over London and beyond. He keeps himself occupied as constantly as possible, more so now than before. Everyone around him mostly came to the conclusion that he was just more bored than usual because now he didn’t have John to occupy that extra bit of his brain. Truthfully though, it was just a distraction. Truthfully, if he didn’t keep distracted, John would occupy all of his brain. Truthfully, if he didn’t keep busy with himself, he felt the gaping hole left in his chest after John Watson left, taking with him the other half of his life, and if he believed in such things, soul, would make him collapse in on himself and explode all at the same time. Sherlock Holmes is a sad man.

On the 4th of January, approximately four months after Dr. John H. Watson packed up his things and silently exited 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes was bored. He was bored and he was thinking of John again, as he walked down the darkened streets of his city. He was remembering a particular time in which he and John had been chasing after yet another serial killer on the far side of town over rooftops after a heavy rain. John was a only a few paces behind him when he lost his footing. Sherlock heard Johns body hit the tin roofing with a thick thud, making the metal ring. Sherlock was turned around in seconds, not missing a step in his long stride, grabbing the sliding army doctor by the arms just before he fell to what would’ve been a rather painful death several stories below. He had him on his feet before the tin roof stopped ringing, standing there in the drizzling clouds, holding John and watching him. John was clinging tightly to the detective while gaping at the fall and obvious pain he would have endured if Sherlock had been just a few seconds later. Sure, they had saved each others lives countless times, Sherlock’s life more than that, but that didn’t mean you stopped freaking out over it.

“Are you alright John?” Sherlock asked after a few seconds.

“Yeah..yeah I’m alright. I think.. Uh, thanks.” John’s mind started ticking again and he became strongly aware of how close he was to the tall man. He pulled back and looked in the direction the criminal had run.

“We should probably go after him before he get to far ahead.”

Sherlock looked in the same direction and nodded. “Yes, we should.” He said as he sprinted off into the distance, John trailing behind him like a flag.

They never did catch him.

Back in present day, Sherlock was just rounding the corner next to an obnoxiously over-lit pub. The cold winter night chilled his pale skin, which seemed to glow in the florescent shadows. He walked another few yards in his nostalgic silence before he reached his point of interest. At the end of the large brick building which housed the drunken citizens was a rather inconspicuous looking man. He seemed to blend into the bland gray bricks so well, with his dark cloths and hidden face, that you would hardly notice him unless he moved exceedingly. His stillness proved to Sherlock that not being seen was exactly his purpose. Then again, he knew that already. What man in his line of business would want to be seen?

Sherlock walked up to him like he did to anyone of use. The man lifted his head when noticing he was being approached, while still avoiding eye contact with the very white and very strange looking man. Sherlock stopped about a foot away, drawing his hands out of his pockets. He held something clenched in his right fist, but the other was outstretched in greeting. Sherlock smiled;

“Hello Mitch. It’s been a while.”

The shorter man finally looked Sherlock full in the face and grinned, shaking his hand firmly.

“Sherlock! It certainly has been a while. How you been, mate? Heard you were working for the police now. You’re not here to bust your old pal Mitch now are you?” He laughed and pulled his hands back.

/Easier to grab his gun in case I AM here to bust him/

Sherlock laughed too. “No, no, nothing like that. Only murders and such for me. Though I do need something from you, if you don’t mind.”

“Not at all my good friend, not at all. What can I get for my favorite consulting detective, eh?”

“Remember when I came back from Berlin?”

Mitch winced dramatically. “Bad week, eh?”

“Bad year.”

Mitch reached into his bag, leaned against the wall. “I got what you need, don’t worry.” He turned back and handed Sherlock a plain envelope.

Sherlock took the envelope and deposited it within the confines of his coat pocket. He loosened his clenched hands and handed Mitch what he held, a colorful wad of money. Mitch pushed his hand back.

“ It’s on the house. After what you did for me and my brother, I owe you.”

Sherlock retracted his hand. “It was no problem at all really, just a simple observation. Thank you though.”

“No problem. Come back anytime.”

With that Sherlock left down the ally, his pocket weighted down with guilt, his mind drifting in the haze of London.

FUCK. SO MANY MIXED FEELINGS. I love drug!fic because i’m like noooo don’t do it but then dear god this is so perfect

(Source: itstuesdayagain)


benedictators:

sherlock-who:

thatsnotquitetrue:

moraniarty:

aviatorshadesarecool:

cosmostrekker:

benedictatorship:

ihaveuntiltherainstops:

The Great Game vs. A Scandal in Belgravia.

Clearly the water was getting scared and started shaking at the tension of the cliff hanger and then quietened down when Moriarty’s phone went off in an attempt to eavesdrop on the conversation.

Also it changed colour and became green

And enforced the lighting to be darker, much like the tone of the scene itself.

this is seriously the only fandom I have ever seen that gives a swimming pool a personality

blue pool/green pool

i ship it

There was no easy way out of this. Truthfully, Green had been putting it off for so many months. It wasn’t fair on either of them to keep the pretense up any longer. Chlorine surged through the water and Green knew there was no other choice than to face the music.

“Blue, I think we should take a break”

The silence was deafening, echoing around the dim hall. “Why?” Blue rippled, trying to hold back the tsunami of emotions that threatened to overwhelm. “Is it- is it another body of water? You can tell me” 

Green began to feel restless. The light shimmered off the surface of its water, emphasizing the unease that was all too transparent already.

“We’re-“, Green paused, searching for the right words before realising there were no right words, “we’re different to who we were before, when we first met.”

Blue couldn’t hold it back any longer. The water swelled, agitated and broken.
“So, is this it?”

Green could see the hurt in every inch of Blue’s movements. Guilt pulsed through the calm pool, clouding the water. Moving closer, the two touched for, what both of them knew in the lowest point of their deep ends, would be the last time.
“Take care, Blue”

#oh my god did i just write fanfiction about pools?

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Sherlock fandom.

BEST FANDOM.

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JAM MY LEG: Crouching down on the ground, John pushed past the various...

untitled post-Reichenbach thing before the episode airs and kills my headcanon

sigtryggr:

It’s the news coverage that changes everything. His final blog post only gets the news out to its existing readers; but it’s the blurry photographs of a rainy funeral and the articles — humiliating in the Daily Mail’s case, sensitive in the Times’ — that gets the word out to London at large. He turns down quite a few requests for interviews, runs up against an entire petition of emails protesting the shutting down of his blog (he brings it back in response, but locks it and hasn’t looked at it since), and gets a number of alternatively disturbing and heart-warming calls from strangers full of sympathy and clichéd words of consolation. He wants none of it.

He makes an exception, though, without even realising it, for the lovely woman who sits next to him on the Tube and notices the way he Isn’t Looking at the newspaper in the hands of the man across from him, or its the large photograph of Sherlock Holmes and its boldfaced headline: INTERNET DETECTIVE DIES UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

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MY GOD THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL

READ IT

READ IT RIGHT THE FUCK NOW


iggymarauder:

nadzo3:

пересматривала сегодня наш “Приключения Шерлока Холмса и Доктора Ватсона”. Момент где, Ватсон играл на скрипке.

It took a while. It really did.
But John wouldn’t, refused, physically could not just leave Baker Street.
So he spent a few nights with Harry, of all people, and then returned to the flat.
Mrs. Hudson wasn’t in; it was just as well, because John really didn’t feel like talking to her, or anyone really. Not now.
He carefully, slowly, made his way up the stairs - seventeen, exactly - and into the flat.
Everything was as it had been when they had been arrested.
All of Sherlock’s possessions sat, untouched. His computer was still open, but John didn’t feel like snooping around. He had the nagging thought that he never would.
His throat was closing, tears stinging in the back of his eyes and the tip of his nose getting that peculiar tingly feeling it had whenever he began to cry.
Blinking and taking deep breaths, he surveyed the room again, unsure of what to do.
His eyes fell upon Sherlock’s violin.
It sat, leaning to one side, in Sherlock’s chair. The bow sat with it. Together, placed as such, it looked like Sherlock as a violin, one hand under his chin as he scowled into the nothingness, lost in his own mind. A small, hysterical laugh bubbled in his throat and died in his mouth.
John fancied it decomposed on his tongue. Or perhaps that was the faint taste of bile as he tried not to vomit from all of this emotional and mental upheaval.
Without thinking about it, he stepped forward and gently picked up the instrument. It was light, making John feel as if it were fragile, made of thin, brittle glass - which was completely untrue, considering the number of times Sherlock would throw it down in frustration onto his chair and whip the bow about as if it were a sword he was threatening his brother someone with.
John stared at it. It didn’t bite him, it didn’t make some snarky, deep-voiced remark, and it certainly didn’t bring the owner of the snarky and deep voice back. But it did, however strangely, make him feel better. Comforted.
He gingerly settled it between his left shoulder and chin, as he had seen Sherlock do so many times. His scar gave a dull twinge at the unfamiliar position, but John ignored it.
He picked up the bow, placed it on the strings, and then thought better of it and, in a flurry of fiery determination, searched for the rosin. Once found, he carefully stroked the horse hair over it, mimicking Sherlock. He refused to break this by being idiotic.
Once he had put what he felt was a sufficient, and then some, amount of rosin on the hairs, he returned to his previous position.
He took a breath, and then gave a slow, sweeping stroke across the violin.
It didn’t sound half bad, but he knew the instant he tried to press the strings for other notes, he would sound horrendous.
But that didn’t deter him.
And so, he spent his hours, long into the night, playing the violin - violating it, making atrocious noises, but refusing to give up. Or even stop. Mrs. Hudson gave up after fifteen minutes of trying to get his attention, and eventually came back with a small meal that went unnoticed.
It took two days of almost non-stop playing to sound somewhat decent.
It took five months to sound like an amateur.
And it took three years to compose his first, and only, piece, simply titled, To Love.

/SCREAMS
THIS IS WONDERFUL

iggymarauder:

nadzo3:

пересматривала сегодня наш “Приключения Шерлока Холмса и Доктора Ватсона”. Момент где, Ватсон играл на скрипке.

It took a while. It really did.

But John wouldn’t, refused, physically could not just leave Baker Street.

So he spent a few nights with Harry, of all people, and then returned to the flat.

Mrs. Hudson wasn’t in; it was just as well, because John really didn’t feel like talking to her, or anyone really. Not now.

He carefully, slowly, made his way up the stairs - seventeen, exactly - and into the flat.

Everything was as it had been when they had been arrested.

All of Sherlock’s possessions sat, untouched. His computer was still open, but John didn’t feel like snooping around. He had the nagging thought that he never would.

His throat was closing, tears stinging in the back of his eyes and the tip of his nose getting that peculiar tingly feeling it had whenever he began to cry.

Blinking and taking deep breaths, he surveyed the room again, unsure of what to do.

His eyes fell upon Sherlock’s violin.

It sat, leaning to one side, in Sherlock’s chair. The bow sat with it. Together, placed as such, it looked like Sherlock as a violin, one hand under his chin as he scowled into the nothingness, lost in his own mind. A small, hysterical laugh bubbled in his throat and died in his mouth.

John fancied it decomposed on his tongue. Or perhaps that was the faint taste of bile as he tried not to vomit from all of this emotional and mental upheaval.

Without thinking about it, he stepped forward and gently picked up the instrument. It was light, making John feel as if it were fragile, made of thin, brittle glass - which was completely untrue, considering the number of times Sherlock would throw it down in frustration onto his chair and whip the bow about as if it were a sword he was threatening his brother someone with.

John stared at it. It didn’t bite him, it didn’t make some snarky, deep-voiced remark, and it certainly didn’t bring the owner of the snarky and deep voice back. But it did, however strangely, make him feel better. Comforted.

He gingerly settled it between his left shoulder and chin, as he had seen Sherlock do so many times. His scar gave a dull twinge at the unfamiliar position, but John ignored it.

He picked up the bow, placed it on the strings, and then thought better of it and, in a flurry of fiery determination, searched for the rosin. Once found, he carefully stroked the horse hair over it, mimicking Sherlock. He refused to break this by being idiotic.

Once he had put what he felt was a sufficient, and then some, amount of rosin on the hairs, he returned to his previous position.

He took a breath, and then gave a slow, sweeping stroke across the violin.

It didn’t sound half bad, but he knew the instant he tried to press the strings for other notes, he would sound horrendous.

But that didn’t deter him.

And so, he spent his hours, long into the night, playing the violin - violating it, making atrocious noises, but refusing to give up. Or even stop. Mrs. Hudson gave up after fifteen minutes of trying to get his attention, and eventually came back with a small meal that went unnoticed.

It took two days of almost non-stop playing to sound somewhat decent.

It took five months to sound like an amateur.

And it took three years to compose his first, and only, piece, simply titled, To Love.

/SCREAMS

THIS IS WONDERFUL