Next up in my self-repost/random “hey, looking for a rec in your...

Next up in my self-repost/random “hey, looking for a rec in your isolation?” series: Flesh and Blood and Bone and Heart. This is the story I wrote essentially as my first reaction to The Abominable Bride, which - unpopular opinion coming up - I hated. I hated so many things about it, not least of which were two major issues for me. First and foremost, Sherlock’s “overdose” was totally infuriating to me. Either: 1) Sherlock genuinely took that entire list of stuff he handed Mycroft, which the only doctor present said “would kill [him]”, ergo Sherlock attempted to commit suicide. And no one, not one single person there, reacted with ANY sort of appropriate response to the fact. Sherlock is consistently treated like someone whose issues are a source of irritation and justified anger to everyone around him. He’s been beaten, nearly murdered, and has been canonically suicidal more than once, yet his trauma is never addressed or treated as a valid thing. So: if Sherlock genuinely overdosed here, it was an attempted suicide and no one did anything whatsoever to address it or help him in any way. 2) There’s no way this was actually an overdose, particularly not of a mixed list of whatever substances those were. I’m no expert on drug overdoses, but generally speaking, someone who has overdosed (on anything!) isn’t capable of standing up and walking around unassisted and without any sort of medical intervention just minutes later, which Sherlock was, in this scene. The writing is inconsistent or inaccurate, and the treatment of Sherlock is awful. Secondly, in the ACD canon, the only living person who is more intelligent than Sherlock is Mycroft. I resent hugely the BBC universe’s attempt to establish Mary as being magically smarter than both of them combined. She isn’t, for starters, and I hated having them shove her down my throat in a blatant attempt to force me to like her. If it wasn’t already abundantly clear, it failed. Lol. This story is my reaction to much of this, and one of my outright Mary-is-the-villain-they-should-have-carried-on-writing-her-as stories. 

Title: Flesh and Blood and Bone and Heart

Author: SilentAuror

Pairing/genre: John/Sherlock (POV: John), drama/romance

Length: 60,094 words (3 chapters)

Summary: As John takes Sherlock back to Baker Street rather than seeing him off to his mission in Serbia, Sherlock decides to reveal how very human he is, after all, and the fall-out will have enormous consequences for them both…

Warnings: Mentions of suicide