waitingforgarridebs:the-7-percent-solution:detectiveshezza:Okay… okay but hear me out… In His...

waitingforgarridebs:

the-7-percent-solution:

detectiveshezza:

Okay… okay but hear me out… 

In His Last Vow after Magnussen leaves 221B Sherlock tells John about how they are going to go and get the letters back and he says: 

“And, of course, because he’s in town tonight, the letters will be in his safe in his London office while he’s out to dinner with the Marketing Group of Great Britain from seven ’til ten.”

So, that means that Sherlock got shot between 7-10pm. He was rushed to hospital and underwent extensive surgery that most likely took hours in order to save his life, not forgetting that during this surgery he crashed on the table and was technically dead. And during all of this John is sitting alone in a waiting for news on his best friend. And when Sherlock wakes up in his surgery what do we cut to?

Mary arriving to the hospital in the day time! There’s daylight shining through the window behind her. That means that even though she knew Sherlock was in hospital fighting for his life (because she’s the one who bloody put him there) she let her husband sit alone in a waiting room all night! She knows how much Sherlock’s fall destroyed John, she knows what John went through when he thought Sherlock was dead and she literally let her husband sit and wait alone for news on his best friend all night. 

This begs another question: Did John even reach out to Mary right after Sherlock was admitted to surgery? Mary couldn’t show up until John reached out to her. She could’ve text him asking where he was and he could’ve ignored her for hours. John is happy to see her, because Sherlock pulled through and he can’t wait to share the good news. But John isn’t one who claims to need comforting. He’s the protector. I don’t think he’d want anyone there witnessing the shaking mess he was in that waiting room. Especially not his wife who he was hoping to be rescued from by the man laying on the operating table. No, I don’t think John reached out to her for hours. Once he knew Sherlock survived, he reached out. Once the fear was gone. Once his mask was back on.

Or did he only call her because Sherlock said “Mary” when he woke up?

I’ve literally written this story over and over again in different variations (though Vena Cava is the one that deals with it in the greatest detail by far!) and I fully agree that John: a) likely didn’t even think of Mary until well past the danger point, because she’s just not as important to him as Sherlock is. He just came SO close to losing the primary person in his life for a second time - I can’t see him thinking, hmmm, perhaps I should call my second-choice wife about now. And b) even if he had remembered her general existence, no, he absolutely wouldn’t have wanted anyone seeing him the way he must have been that night. No way.