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catslash_rp) wrote2011-11-17 08:11 pm
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"You can't just -"
John stops short as he takes in his new surroundings: this is not his flat. What the hell is -
Oh.
Oh god.
He closes the Door, slowly, and leans back against it, eyes closed as almost a year's worth of impossible memories flood into his head.
Oh god.
John stops short as he takes in his new surroundings: this is not his flat. What the hell is -
Oh.
Oh god.
He closes the Door, slowly, and leans back against it, eyes closed as almost a year's worth of impossible memories flood into his head.
Oh god.
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Someone is watching him.
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Inevitable, given the circumstances.
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"John Watson?"
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He's still more than a little disorientated, but he finds the source easily enough.
"Sherlock," he says, faintly.
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(The movement tells the story. For this John Watson, Afghanistan has happened.)
"I'm not dead," he says.
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He makes his way to Strat's table and sits, because if he doesn't, he will be driven down under the weight of too many memories instead.
Just because they're returning doesn't mean they make sense.
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Saxon.
How could Saxon possibly have happened, with Mycroft at the helm?
He'll ask when he goes home. Ask if Mycroft knows the name. Well worth incurring Sherlock's potential sulking upon learning John has contacted his brother to find out.
"I don't know," he manages.
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...he waits.
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"Saxon was not Moriarty," he says, eventually.
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Narrowly. (He can still hear Moriarty's voice in his ear, unnecessarily caressing as he dictated what John was to say to Sherlock.
Measured against the memory of Saxon and the drums, it is rather less unsettling.)
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He didn't, but he doesn't think he needs to say that.
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For Sherlock's sake more than his own at the time - he reconciled himself with the possibility of his own death some time ago, in Afghanistan - but pleased nonetheless.
"I don't understand what has happened," he blurts out, frustrated.
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If anyone can, of course, Sherlock can.
Whatever version of Sherlock it might be.
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It takes some time, but he doesn't rush himself. He knows Sherlock prefers an accurate answer to a hasty one.
"I seem to have been in two places at once," he says finally. "As does my entire world."
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"What did I say before? 2008? Ish?"
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