Inktober 2017
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The leaves crunch underfoot.
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Sometimes it's nice to have fun with things. Even if your flatmate thinks you're childish.
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- Part 1 of Inktober 2017
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"Hey," he manages. "What are you two doing?"
John considers the thing in front of him like he's seeing it for the first time. "Uh. . ."
"It's a Halloween tree," Sherlock says.
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Trees are traditional for holidays like this, aren't they? Christmas makes a big deal of it, certainly. But how do you make a tree. . . spooky?
Well, that's easy. Just add pumpkins.
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- Part 2 of Inktober 2017
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He curses himself for getting kidnapped, but five burly men on one semi-crippled army doctor is bad odds even when they don't have drugs on their side, and it's not like he didn't give as good as he got.
He's so cold.
He hopes Sherlock is looking for him.
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Tied to the Tower Bridge in the middle of heavy rain, aching and bleeding and shivering fit to shake apart, John is running out of time and consciousness.
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- Part 3 of Inktober 2017
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"Coo-ee, boys!" She pokes her head into 221B, cradling her passenger safely in her hands. "I found this little one scratching at my door -"
"They're getting out!" John yelps as about half of the cats in the room surge towards new opportunities, and suddenly Sherlock is diving towards her.
"Mrs Hudson, is the door closed downstairs?"
///There are kittens. . . everywhere. You may think it's a slight issue. You may think it's a little unusual. You may even think it's an infestation.
It's just an average night in at Baker Street.
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- Part 4 of Inktober 2017
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"You order."
"No, you order."
"I'm not ordering, I just rugby-tackled a man three times my size and managed to hold him down until the police arrived."
"I'm not hungry," Sherlock insists. "Really, John -"
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After cases, sometimes you just want some Chinese. That's simple enough, but who's ordering?
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- Part 5 of Inktober 2017
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"And who are these roses for?"
"My husband," he sighs. (Dammit, Sherlock.)
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You'd think serial poisoned-pollen murders of married gay men might be worth leaving the house for.
Apparently not.
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- Part 6 of Inktober 2017
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"You're not even watching from the start?"
"Nah." John shrugs, sniffs. "S'not like the first series is the actual first, anyway."
Sherlock stares. "Excuse me?"
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John is sick.
But does he really have to sit on the sofa and watch nonsensical shows while he is?
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- Part 7 of Inktober 2017
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"He ain't comin'."
"Don' be stupid. Ent you heard 'bout him?"
"'eard about Sherlock Holmes."
"The one we've got in that bloody old wine cellar?" There's a snort. "You're more of a moron than I thought if y'don't think half of London 'as heard of Sherlock Holmes."
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There are dangerous things afoot tonight.
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- Part 8 of Inktober 2017
- Part 1 of that which we are, we are
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He ends up by some sort of control room. He knocks out the lookouts posted to the doorway and pokes his head around the corner.
A small bank of monitors, a switchboard covered in little flashing lights and big red buttons, several henchmen scattered about the room doing various things. There's a fairly innocuous-looking door with a circular window in it on the opposite wall, the wood faded enough that it nearly blends into the wall itself.
John's heart leaps into his throat. There.
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John continues to terrify the local criminals, and Sherlock is found!
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- Part 9 of Inktober 2017
- Part 2 of that which we are, we are
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Didn't You Know? Vampires Have Sweet Teeth, Too by chasing_the_sterek
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
10 Oct 2017
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Sherlock is watching him. "I still don't quite believe you convinced me to do this," he admits, amused.
"You'll do anything for disguises practice," John agrees. He's surprised as well, but he just smooths down his waistcoat and checks the ruffling on his sleeves.
"You look fine."
The doorbell rings downstairs.
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There are trick-or-treaters at the door. John is determined to make their night.
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- Part 10 of Inktober 2017
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"Sherlock," Mycroft says grandly. He nods at John magnanimously. "Doctor Watson."
"John," John corrects, just to be a little shit.
Sherlock's lips twitch. John remembers belatedly that he enjoys it far too much when John decides to worm his way deliberately under Mycroft's skin.
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It's the aftermath of a case, they're sitting in a café somewhere drinking very good tea, and then Mycroft shows up.
John is feeling a little. . . childish.
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- Part 11 of Inktober 2017
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"Did you even pass your test?"
John yanks at the steering wheel and shifts into third gear. The alleyway is a little too narrow, but there aren't any bins in it and he doesn't use wing mirrors much anyway.
"Flying colours," he says.
"I find that hard to believe," Sherlock manages as they shudder down some steps.
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Some corrupt rozzers have it in for Lestrade. Sherlock and John intervene, but it ends up coming down to a heated car chase through the backstreets of London. The question is not can John stay ahead of the coppers, but can the coppers keep up with John?
(Despite his jumpers and pleasant demeanour and doctor's licence, John really is a lot more badass than expected.)
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- Part 12 of Inktober 2017
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"- John is simply having an extraordinarily bad day."
Lestrade frowns a little. "What happened?"
"What hasn't happened?" John groans.
"Uh," Lestrade wracks his brains. "Sherlock blew the kitchen up?"
"Only a few appliances," John says. "The most severe casualty being the kettle."
Sherlock starts to protest. "There wasn't supposed to be that much potassium -"
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John Watson is having a very bad day. It doesn't help that a new case pops up just as he's trying to go to bed.
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- Part 13 of Inktober 2017
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Caring is not an advantage. Caring is not an advantage.
Oh, God, John.
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John Watson has cleared Sherlock Holmes' name, but dead men can still be grateful.
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- Part 14 of Inktober 2017
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Rain in the desert is breathtaking, completely alien after a lifetime of British downpours.
John remembers vividly the distinct crackle and rumble of the heavens before they open, before the Afghan sands are drenched in water untinged by the smog of a busy city. He remembers the way everything stops, the way every living thing from the tiniest, hardiest plants to the bloodthirstiest Taliban pause for the duration of the rainstorm to simply sit back and watch the miracle of nature. John remembers even the rushed, everlasting thrum of his field hospital slowing at the rarity.
The photo is decent - John, sat in front of a field hospital window, gazing out at the torrential rain with a faintly wistful smile on his face.
The video is different.
You can hear it.
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John has a tin of memory sticks, all full of videos and photos and memoirs of his time in the army. The Fusiliers (and others) put it all together and gave it to him just before he was shipped out. It lives in his wardrobe now, to keep away from a prying Sherlock, but the hinges remain well-used, and the videos are watched often.
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- Part 15 of Inktober 2017
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Lestrade sums the gist of it up in his head on the very first night of their first case together, as he watches them walk off and giggle and confront Mycroft Holmes and his poncy umbrella. His mind recalls vaguely how Sherlock had said Doctor Watson will be taking the bedroom upstairs just before he walked into a drugs bust and the way John had slipped out of the door of 221B and said nary a word to the police as he ran off to save a man he barely knew.
Fuck, is the closest way he can put words to the general feeling of that night. They're going to raise hell together.
It turns out to be fairly accurate.
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John falls in the Thames.
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- Part 16 of Inktober 2017
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John Watson was, first and foremost, a doctor. The army came as a bolt-on a little later, and after being both a surgeon and a soldier the drab daily life of a general practitioner is, as Sherlock puts it, excruciatingly dull.
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In which John lives up to his very good, despite being a tad rusty.
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- Part 17 of Inktober 2017
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"Bugger'ff."
"You really are fantastic company when you first wake up," Sherlock remarks.
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John doesn't sleep in cars. He never has - except...
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- Part 18 of Inktober 2017
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"You look like you broke your own brain," Sherlock accuses. John suddenly realises he's been locked in a staring contest with him for God-knows how long.
"Oh, um -"
"Two minutes and forty-seven point nine seconds," Sherlock supplies.
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John goes on a mental tangent.
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- Part 19 of Inktober 2017
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I Think I Love You (Isn't That What Life Is Made Of?) by chasing_the_sterek
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
09 Jan 2018
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Sherlock wakes to loud music.
Earsplittingly loud music, he amends almost immediately, glaring blearily at his door as the sound leaks incessantly beneath it. John Watson is a horrible man.
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In which Sherlock is trying to sleep, John thinks he's home alone, and even though Sherlock's parents don't actually feature, they influence quite a lot.
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- Part 20 of Inktober 2017