Tuesday - Supernatural

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

My apologizes for the lateness for this post everyone! I'm your host for the week mahmfic. Today's theme is Supernatural. Let our creatures of the night roam free.

Rules:
No more than three prompts to a single fandom
No more than five prompts at a time
If your prompt or fic has spoilers, please warn and and leave at least three spaces

Format:
Fandom, Character, Prompt
Fandom, Character/Character, Prompt

Examples:
Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, while out hunting Weevils Ianto gets bitten by a werewolf
Being Human UK, Mitchell/George, overcoming the odds

Don't like the supernatural? Check out the lonely prompts.

tag=supernatural

Comments

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Sherlock BBC, Sherlock + or / John, ghost!John helps Sherlock solve crime. The only crime Sherlock can't solve is John's murder.

Not Even Death Can Stop Destiny

[anidawehi.livejournal.com]

Sherlock wondered, at times, if Mycroft knew that the skull he'd given Sherlock still retained it's original inhabitant. Figuratively speaking of course. Literally John occupied a metaphysical plane that he was infuriatingly incapable of describing to Sherlock in any useful way. It seemed unlikely that Mycroft was aware of the full extent of his gift, (Well, gift in that he didn't take John AWAY, which was virtually the same thing as giving him to Sherlock) he was dreadfully unimaginative that way.

Still, John (Ex-Army doctor, killed three years previously, small in life, invisible in death) was remarkably helpful and Sherlock reluctantly came to the conclusion that he owed Mycroft enough to be *civil* every now and again. (John reminded him, most of the time, feeling as if he owed Mycroft too for making his afterlife exciting rather than horrifically depressing and lonely.)

Sherlock had been very good before he ended up with John, but that warm, oddly solid voice in his ear, that invisible but still tangible presence helped significantly and despite the fact that he frequently spoke to someone who wasn't there ("What do you think? No, not *you* Anderson, who could possibly want *your* opinion? ... Yes! Very good, except that you've missed the deeper indent on the carpet just there...") Lestrade and the rest of the world seemed to find him easier to deal with.

To say that Sherlock (And John, who hadn't had any idea he could do that sort of thing) was surprised the first time an invisible force had saved Sherlock's life was a massive understatement but both of them eagerly applied themselves to discovering the limits of the ability. Soon Sherlock found himself with cups of fresh brewed tea floating over to him in the middle of a good thinking session and his coat becoming singularly uncooperative when he wanted to go out while John thought he needed to rest.

All in all John was *exactly* what Sherlock would have asked for in his life with the glaring exception of being dead. And infuriatingly dead at that. Sherlock simply couldn't find the one vital clue that told him who had killed his John before he'd had a chance to touch his warm skin and feel his heart beat. All he had to hold onto was John's pale skull and a picture printed off the net that showed a serious man in uniform. (Sherlock privately thought that John had to have had a wonderful smile but couldn't find any proof.) It was beyond unfair and it drove him to near breakdown until one night when the blanket tucked around him on the couch and John said quietly, "Let it go Sherlock. If you solve it I may have to go on and I don't want to leave you. I'll just wait until you're ready to come with me, alright? Rest for a while. Please."

So Sherlock Holmes reluctantly gave up the greatest mystery of his life so he and John could both wait and if anyone thought it was odd that he asked to be buried with the skull he'd carried around for years... well, he was Sherlock Holmes, and it was a sad fact that that skull was the closest thing he'd ever had to a friend.

Re: Not Even Death Can Stop Destiny

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

oh my god. i didn't think anyone was going to fill this. and THIS. wow. this is so amazing. thank you so much for filling my prompt. i am pretty speechless right now.

Re: Not Even Death Can Stop Destiny

[anidawehi.livejournal.com]

Sorry! I meant to fill it earlier but I was studying for my final tomorrow! I knew pretty much immediately I was going to fill this, it's just too awesome of a prompt NOT to. (I actually had like... four ideas to chose from but this was the most insistent.)

I'm so glad you like it! You always have the best prompts! (Yay speechlessness!)

Re: Not Even Death Can Stop Destiny

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

no what i meant was i didn't really think anyone was going to fill the prompt at all. sorry about that! i thought people would see the prompt and think it was too hard or would be big to fill for a comment fic.

Re: Not Even Death Can Stop Destiny

[ladyjane]

oh

How sad and beautiful and my heart aches for the both of them.

Re: Not Even Death Can Stop Destiny

[anidawehi.livejournal.com]

Aww! *HUGS!* At least they get to be together when Sherlock... dies... okay maybe that isn't as cheering as I thought it would be.

I'm glad you liked it! I very rarely have someone call my writing beautiful and I'm totally giddy over that. Thank you so much for your comment!

Re: Not Even Death Can Stop Destiny

[meatball42.livejournal.com]

Totally fantastic :)