The Vibes, my Dear Watson ...

Standing Orders: Complete!

Captain John Watson stumbles into an arrangement with Major James Sholto. In a warzone, it can’t mean anything. There are rules. John learns them. He becomes exemplary.

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Inspired by the fabulous @dragonnan's Blood and Romance (included by permission)

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Too old for this: my first half-thought as I flail and thrash my way back to consciousness. I’m underwater, aching to breathe, but I’ll die if I do; but it isn’t cold enough, I’m not wet, where the hell I hurt all over and something’s wrong, it’s dark where is Sherlock

If I’m not under water, I can breathe; I open my lips a hair and no water floods in, so I take a careful breath and it’s air. Not sweet, God no, tastes like mould and sewage, but definitely air, and shakily I suck it in.

I blink and try to focus but can’t see anything. Where the hell am I, and where is Sherlock? There—a second complete thought, even if it’s just the ragged scraps from before stringing together into sense, that’s got to be a good sign.

Okay. Okay. Stop, where am I. Listen.

In a silence so loud, a darkness so complete, I can hear my racing heartbeat even over my ragged panting—but nothing else, not close by. I can’t breathe through my nose at all. I try to shift to generate some sound, get some idea at least of what kind of surface I’m near or on. Take stock: everything hurts but I can’t tell from what, I can’t gather any sensory data to extrapolate anything from. (Sherlock would say, deduce. I’m not Sherlock. He’d know what to do to get some clarity here; I’m just starting to panic.)

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Chapter 3 of A Chance of Showers is now up on Ao3 for you all! Enjoy!

Summary: When the Watson's shower becomes unusable, John asks Sherlock if he can shower at 221b for a while. Now if only he could figure out why this feels so right.

Or start from the beginning here.

He sighed again. ‘I should go.’

‘Gregory,’ Mycroft’s protest was soft.

Greg ignored it, opening his eyes and standing up.

‘I’ll see you another time,’ Greg said. ‘Sorry I was… yeah.’

He wasn’t looking at Mycroft, but as he turned for the door, Greg felt someone moving to stand beside him.

‘Gregory, will you wait?’

The polite request – not grabbing his arm, or demanding – was enough to stop him moving. Swallowing, Greg sent out a missive to the universe.

Please don't let him offer to help.

Save me that humiliation.

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The song that this is inspired by is this wonderful mashup of Suit &Tie and Get Lucky by moshigogo!

You know... this scene!

Hey Amy!!!

Oh, if I recall correctly, it's never been explicitly stated in BBC Sherlock; I think context clues point to him possibly being abused (at least emotionally) in his past, and possibly his low self esteem making him believe he isn't WORTH saving / helping. Context clues point to him always being the responsible one while his sister wasn't, which then followed him to his chosen career as both a doctor AND a soldier (both dedicated to "helping people" in the basest sense) and making rank of a captain AND being proclaimed as a "very good" doctor? Well, then, yeah, it's understandable why he feels he has to be able to handle things on his own.

And it's also how many of us read John's character, so I think that idea is also primarily fanon, but has a lot of good reason to exist as "fact".

I personally think it's a combination of all the above, plus his own trauma / PTSD from the war and losing a lot of people under his watch, so I think that he genuinely may have a bit of a saviour complex in that sense.

One of the things l love so much about BBC John is just how complex of a character he is, and how Martin portrays his character on screen. A LOT of those context clues I mentioned are STRICTLY by the way Martin portrays John, and quite frankly, it's brilliant.

Sorry I'm not much help other than this, Lovely!

Legit Johnlock Scenes

The reality is that I actually have to think about stylization

And oh my god, Bertie is so ugly, but I can't get over how adorable he is and how much he looks like a rat now.......

He doesn't really look like TV Bertie, but honestly, this is pretty much how I picture him in the book. He's naive, a little sly in that rat-like way, constantly stepping on his own tail, kind-looking, and just as straightforward as a rat would be

Like. Literally