catslash_rp ([personal profile] 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.

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:13 am (UTC)(link)






Someone is watching him.

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
His reaction time is nowhere near what it was before.

Inevitable, given the circumstances.

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
His eyes open at the sound of his name.

He's still more than a little disorientated, but he finds the source easily enough.



"Sherlock," he says, faintly.

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
"And how is your afterlife?"

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
The door behind him tries to open; he blinks and steps away from it.

(The movement tells the story. For this John Watson, Afghanistan has happened.)

"I'm not dead," he says.

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"...yes," says Strat, "I am beginning to see that."

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:28 am (UTC)(link)


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.

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Whatever's troubling you, is it something I can help with?"

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:34 am (UTC)(link)



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.

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
In which case...

...he waits.

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
There's no denying the truth of the new (old) memories. He could never explain why, there may not be words for why, but they are indisputable. He can't even retreat into the dubious comfort of the thought that he may have quite suddenly gone mad.



"Saxon was not Moriarty," he says, eventually.

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"I take that to mean you have met someone who is. Sorry to hear it."

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
"We survived."

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.)

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Good. I'm glad."

He didn't, but he doesn't think he needs to say that.

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"I was rather pleased myself."

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.

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Now that," says Strat, "I quite possibly can help with."

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Can you?"

If anyone can, of course, Sherlock can.

Whatever version of Sherlock it might be.

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Tell me what the trouble is and we'll see."

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
He thinks this over, trying to find the most concise and coherent way to put it.

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."

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
He nods slowly.

"What did I say before? 2008? Ish?"

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
"More or less Great Britain, probably 2008 (http://mm-catslash.livejournal.com/872.html?thread=7784#t7784)," he quotes.

[identity profile] mm-catslash.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
"It's 2010," he says. "Saxon never happened. I'm not dead. But as soon as I walked in here, I remembered all of it. How is that possible?"

[identity profile] finaldiscussion.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Magic," he suggests. "Time travel. Alternate realities."

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