#richenbach fall

(my other editing edit acc @lokisasgardss)

Please repost this, I WANT TO KNOW. Am I the only one who was basically sobbing throughout the entire episode?! I started breaking down when Moriarty acted like he was Richard Brooks when they were in Kitty's house. I was crying because it seemed Sherlock was starting to doubt himself, as if thinking, "Am I insane?" And worse yet, I started to have unintentional doubts myself. By that point I was already a wreck. It was like someone yelling in your face something like, "Your best friend is a FAKE." This also ties into Lestrade having to consider that maybe Sherlock was the kidnapper. I was crying for Sherlock because he was watching his friends have suspicions, and I wanted to scream at them that Sherlock was innocent, that he would never do that. I was upset because they were losing their trust in him for no reason. They thought he was a FRAUD. I also was terrified that Sherlock maybe was... Insane? Another reason, and of course, we were all crying through the fall itself, but Sherlock says to John while on the roof, "It's all a magic trick." This sounds like he is confessing to bring a fraud, which we all knew for a FACT by then that he was not. I take the magic trick quote as Sherlock, subtly in his own way, telling John, "This jump is a magic trick. It's all a trick, I'm not really going to die." But John didn't understand, and took it all seriously, as did the rest of us. But we knew he would probably come back. This part goes without saying, but it also broke me listening to what John said to Sherlock. I DO NOT ship johnlock, but I ship them as FRIENDS. So of course this is the part where John is confessing that Sherlock is his best friend, and he never would regret meeting him, as most people do. The saddest part is, in John's mind, he is saying this to Sherlock's grave. Sherlock is dead, and John still has faith that he will come back. Because that's just something Sherlock would do. Thank you for reading. I had to get that out.