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Player Information
Name: Alex
Age: 20
AIM SN: QueenMarie1793
email: affair.in.red.square@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes
Currrently Played Characters: N/A
Character Information
General
Canon Source: BBC’s Sherlock
Canon Format: TV series
Character's Name: Dr. John Watson
Character's Age: 33
What form will your character's NV take? An Acer Aspire notebook with Windows 7 with 320 GB of memory, 8 G of memory, and wi-fi capability.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: The main thing about John’s set of skills is his expertise in the medical field. In addition to being a general practitioner, he is an excellent surgeon. Some of this other skills include being a skilled marksman due to the time he spent in the army and over in Afghanistan and being quite the ladies man, even though it might take him awhile to break the ice since coming back into civilian life.
Conditional: Probability manipulation (dormant), healing (obvious; for work reasons)
Weapons: A standard issue, semi-automatic handgun.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: John is one of two children, having a sister named Harry (short for Harriet). He attended medical school at the Medical College of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and graduated with his doctoral degree. Sometime after college, he signed up for the army and was sent over to Afghanistan as a field doctor. To say that John saw the horrors of war was an understatement. He saw men he trained with die or badly wounded, some he had saved and some he didn’t. Unfortunately, John himself was injured on the field, receiving some shrapnel in his left shoulder and honorably discharged. Upon his arrival back to London, he had a hard time settling into civilian life. He developed a limp, which his therapist diagnosed as psychosomatic. She believed it to be caused by post-traumatic stress disorder. John’s problems didn’t end there; he couldn’t afford his current flat on an army pension so he set out to find a roommate. Through an old friend, John met the curious Sherlock Holmes, whom was also in search of a roommate. From the moment they met, John was exposed to a rather thorough inspection of his personality and history through his appearance and his mobile phone. The doctor was extremely impressed by his new roommate despite what others said about him, especially the police.
On their first day living together, John was dragged into an investigation of a young woman who seemed to have died mysteriously. He found it strange that the police were consulting a private investigator, but the pace with which Sherlock worked didn’t give John much time to think about anything. In the midst of their investigation, John was contacted by another strange fellow and driven to meet him. The man seemed to know Sherlock personally and showed some concern about John’s new roommate. This man then offered John to spy on Sherlock for him which the good doctor refused to do. Then, his mysterious kidnapper revealed something about him: John’s hand wasn’t shaking, which is what would happen to a normal human being. No, John’s hand was perfectly still; the adrenaline is what he was looking for. That was the cure for his “post-traumatic stress disorder.” Sherlock later confirmed this when John left his cane behind while they were on the run for a rogue cab.
John’s decline to spy on his flatmate for this man was the first instance of John’s growing fidelity towards Sherlock. He didn’t know why he had done so, but, again, he didn’t have time to think on it: the game was on, according to Sherlock. Their investigation led their murderer to their very front step, but John didn’t realize it until the deadly cabbie took Sherlock to a school building. He had no idea what was transpiring between the two men in one of the buildings, but John wasn’t about to take any chances. However, in his search, he had gone into the wrong building. He spotted Sherlock from the opposite window. From this window, John miraculously shot and killed the murderer. At the end of the night, when loose ends were being tied up by Scotland Yard, John denied having a hand in the shooting, though he was sure Sherlock knew. Then, the mysterious man who had “kidnapped” John earlier that evening turned up again and wouldn’t you know it: he was Sherlock’s brother, Mycroft. The reason he wanted John to spy on his brother was because he truly, deeply was concerned for his well-being. John marked he and Sherlock’s adventure on his blog, something his therapist recommended. Sherlock does not like this at all.
In their second “adventure,” John found himself investigating a strange break-in at a downtown bank. However, one of the bank’s employees -- the same man whose office had been broken into and vandalized with grafitti -- turned up dead. The police wrote it off as a suicide, but Sherlock knew it couldn’t have been and John was suspicious of the circumstances as well. After the banker’s murder, a journalist soon turns up dead in his apartment as well. At this time, John applied for and was hired at a local surgery where he met Sarah, whom he soon courted. Sherlock and John found a link between the two men; they had recently returned from a trip to China and went to a curio shop in Chinatown called “The Lucky Cat.” Here, John figured out that the symbols found at in the banker’s office and at the journalist’s home were an ancient Chinese system of numbers. With the help of a Chinese pottery expert, Soo Lin Yao, the pair find out that the code of the criminal “Black Lotus Tong” of which she was once a member. However, the assassin, who ends up being Soo Lin’s brother, strikes again, killing her. Their clues lead them to a circus that John was taking Sarah to that night. After being mistaken for Sherlock, John and Sarah are tied up, the latter sitting in front of a crossbow that will eventually shoot her. However, Sherlock solves the code and comes to John and Sarah’s rescue. The stolen treasure the Black Lotus Tong had been after ended up being a jade hairpin worn by the late banker’s secretary. The leader of the Black Lotus Tong then reveals whom she had been working for, merely giving an initial -- M -- before being shot by a sniper.
Their third investigation began with a spat between John and Sherlock about John’s exposure of Sherlock’s lack of astronomical knowledge in his blog entry. John slept at Sarah’s flat and the next morning, saw on the news that an explosion occurred on Baker Street. When John returned to Baker Street, he found Mycroft trying to convince Sherlock to take on a case about a murdered MI6 employee who had been found on train tracks with his head bashed in and a flash drive with important information missing from his person. Sherlock rejected the offer, saying that his hands are already full. However, he asked John to take the case himself. In the midst of this, Sherlock begins to receive mysterious calls from people who give him challenges to solve. The only thing is, bombs were strapped to these people and if Sherlock didn’t complete the task in the allotted time, they would die. Sherlock solves five puzzles while John solves the case of the MI6 employee, with Sherlock’s help towards the end. The employee’s brother-in-law had killed him and stole the USB because he owed large sums of money to drug dealers. Sherlock told John that he has retrieved the USB. While John went out with Sarah, Sherlock contacted the Moriarty, offering the missile plans on the USB and arranged a meeting at a swimming pool. However, when he arrived, Sherlock is met by John who seemed to taunt him at first, but eventually revealed that he was strapped to an explosive vest and that his words were being dictated like the previous hostages.
The mysterious Moriarty turned out to be Molly’s “boyfriend” Jim, from St. Bart’s. Moriarty had devised the whole plan with the puzzles to show Sherlock what he was capable of and to stay out of his way. John grabbed Moriarty, but the sniper threatening to shoot and blow up the doctor turned his (or her, who knew) pointer to Sherlock. John let Moriarty go, who left. The two of them managed to get the bomb off John and away from them, but Moriarty returned, multiple snipers pointed towards the pair. There, John and Sherlock engaged in a Mexican stand-off with Moriarty, snipers on the two men and Sherlock pointing John’s gun at the bomb standing near Moriarty’s feet.
Point in Canon: After the last episode of the series wherein he, Sherlock, and Moriarty are in a stand-off at the public pool.
Character Personality: John Watson is a very intelligent man. He and Sherlock make a good pair, but the latter's insight far surpasses his own as well as his intelligence. John's deduction is limited. John is every bit the romantic; his blog postings about he and Sherlock's cases (adventures as he likes to call them as it ruffles his roommate's feathers) always annoy the more practical Sherlock. He is open and straightforward, in some cases. John finds it difficult for him to show emotion after being stationed in Afghanistan and seeing the horrors of the controversial war firsthand. He doesn't do it that often, to be honest. He's also very quiet outside of the social gathering scene and keeps his manners.
John’s relationship with Sherlock is certainly something new to the both of them. He is quite sure he’s never met someone as interesting and as fascinating as his flatmate and John has no problem voicing this. When Sherlock works, he’s in utter awe at the man’s ability to see the finer, more important details. In addition to Sherlock’s greater intelligence, John is also aware of how much of an outcast the detective is. From the beginning, he’s felt overprotective of him, which is strange since John hasn’t really attached himself to anyone since he’s arrived home from the war. When others, especially those on the police force, told him to stay away, he merely shrugged them off. John felt that others didn’t really see Sherlock the way he did, living with him. His protectiveness was certainly seen when he shot and killed the rogue cabbie from their first investigation.
That doesn’t mean the relationship is perfect. Sherlock has some strange habits and beliefs that test John’s patience. It’s clear that John has more sympathy than Sherlock and it often gets in the way of how they operate as a team. While working on the strange case of the serial bomber who strapped bombs to innocent individuals, John was flabbergasted at how much Sherlock treated it as a game and not as something more serious. He wasn’t concerned in tracking down these individuals; he was more concerned about solving the puzzles of this madman. The icing on the cake had been when one of these individuals had actually been detonated despite Sherlock solving the game when the previous victims had survived. John was infuriated that the other man seemed to have no regrets about pushing on with the entire plot. It’s still something he holds against Sherlock.
The doctor is a very neat man. His room is always clean and his books and files are always in alphabetical order. He tends to get very anxious when something is out of place, if not short-tempered and frustrated. This is why Sherlock's disorder gets him into such a tizzy and he often loses his temper with his roommate. When he wants to get away from the stifling atmosphere that Sherlock creates, John likes to go out with his colleagues and his girlfriend, Sarah. Women like to be in his company and vice versa.
Being a private investigator provides an adrenaline rush John is more open to being addicted to than his partner's preference to nicotine patches. It's also helping him with his post-traumatic stress disorder he's been suffering from since returning from the war. If there’s one thing he despises about being a war veteran, it’s the pity he receives. John dislikes being treated as a charity case when he just wants to return to a normal lifestyle (or as much of a normal lifestyle as Sherlock will let him have). This dislike only adds fuel to the fire when it comes to his stubbornness. His appointments with his therapist are often the two of them sitting in silence; he doesn’t want to talk about it because it’ll “make him feel better.” His PSTD, along with his general stubbornness are a volatile cocktail that are only assuaged when he’s out with Sherlock.
Character Plans: John will join up with Sherlock in the city to continue their work as detectives and he will keep on blogging. However, his blog posts may also be mixed with his experiences with the monsters that come out during the Darkness and the agitation of his PTSD from all of this. Maybe. He'll also continue his day job as a doctor.
Appearance/PB: Martin Freeman
Writing Samples
First Person Sample [John starts up his computer to report on his situation which has left him disoriented for lack of a better term]
Okay, so I'm in a strange place. Jesus, I thought I'd never say those words to myself again. I've somehow ended up in this city and a very nice lady led me to some flats that are free for "newcomers" such as myself, whatever that means. In my bag was this laptop. It's certainly not my laptop back home in London on Baker Street (which Sherlock was probably using while I was at work). The young lady told me all about this place and about my new situation. I'm not sure how to take all of this and what they call the "Darkness." She told me to heed the sirens at night and find cover. Windows and doors had to be kept locked and no one could go outside until the morning sirens ended the Darkness period.
I've been plucked from home again and dropped into what sounds like a foreboding place. I honestly thought that my life would return to normal once I came back to London. Everything was going fine: I have a job, a nice flat, a wonderful girlfriend, a wonderful hobby. But no. No one can give John Watson any rest. Somehow, I want to blame Sherlock for all of this, but I don’t think this has anything to do with our work...
What's that sound--
Third Person Sample
John closed his laptop as a dull, but growing sound began to echo throughout the entire city. It was just falling beyond dusk at that point, a few last rays of the sun painting the sky a pink and purplish hue. Pushing back his chair, he got up from his tiny desk and crossed the dusty wooden floor to the grimy window. A lightbulb shined overhead, swaying and flickering briefly before going back to a dull glow. The sky was now slightly dark, but as John approached the window he noticed how quickly it was darkening. He furrowed his brow. Completely forgetting what the girl had told him about the Darkness and about windows even though he had just posted it, John opened the window anyway. It had gotten eerily windy in the time it took him to get to the window from his seat at his desk. Debris soon filled the streets as the siren wailed through the city and beat his eardrums. Suddenly, he felt the paint on the window sill cracking underneath his hands. He looked down to see the materials that made up the wall he was facing peel, crack, and turn old. Panicking, he slammed the window shut, the wind now beating against the glass.
He panted, looking down at the damage. John traced his fingers over it until he finally remembered the Darkness. Is this why the young lady had told him to refrain from opening doors and windows during this time? No; maybe the cheap flat was just that much of a dump that a small wind storm could damage it. He wiped away some of the grime from the window. Down below, he saw some things emerge from corners and alleys that he'd never seen before. They made the most horrible sounds, but he could barely hear them over the wind. Suddenly, his was transported back to Afghanistan where wind storms and things John had never seen ran rampant as well. His throat dried up, but he couldn’t tear his eyes away from what was going on in the streets.
John quickly shut the thin curtains and turned away. What kind of hell was he in now?
Name: Alex
Age: 20
AIM SN: QueenMarie1793
email: affair.in.red.square@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes
Currrently Played Characters: N/A
Character Information
General
Canon Source: BBC’s Sherlock
Canon Format: TV series
Character's Name: Dr. John Watson
Character's Age: 33
What form will your character's NV take? An Acer Aspire notebook with Windows 7 with 320 GB of memory, 8 G of memory, and wi-fi capability.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: The main thing about John’s set of skills is his expertise in the medical field. In addition to being a general practitioner, he is an excellent surgeon. Some of this other skills include being a skilled marksman due to the time he spent in the army and over in Afghanistan and being quite the ladies man, even though it might take him awhile to break the ice since coming back into civilian life.
Conditional: Probability manipulation (dormant), healing (obvious; for work reasons)
Weapons: A standard issue, semi-automatic handgun.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: John is one of two children, having a sister named Harry (short for Harriet). He attended medical school at the Medical College of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and graduated with his doctoral degree. Sometime after college, he signed up for the army and was sent over to Afghanistan as a field doctor. To say that John saw the horrors of war was an understatement. He saw men he trained with die or badly wounded, some he had saved and some he didn’t. Unfortunately, John himself was injured on the field, receiving some shrapnel in his left shoulder and honorably discharged. Upon his arrival back to London, he had a hard time settling into civilian life. He developed a limp, which his therapist diagnosed as psychosomatic. She believed it to be caused by post-traumatic stress disorder. John’s problems didn’t end there; he couldn’t afford his current flat on an army pension so he set out to find a roommate. Through an old friend, John met the curious Sherlock Holmes, whom was also in search of a roommate. From the moment they met, John was exposed to a rather thorough inspection of his personality and history through his appearance and his mobile phone. The doctor was extremely impressed by his new roommate despite what others said about him, especially the police.
On their first day living together, John was dragged into an investigation of a young woman who seemed to have died mysteriously. He found it strange that the police were consulting a private investigator, but the pace with which Sherlock worked didn’t give John much time to think about anything. In the midst of their investigation, John was contacted by another strange fellow and driven to meet him. The man seemed to know Sherlock personally and showed some concern about John’s new roommate. This man then offered John to spy on Sherlock for him which the good doctor refused to do. Then, his mysterious kidnapper revealed something about him: John’s hand wasn’t shaking, which is what would happen to a normal human being. No, John’s hand was perfectly still; the adrenaline is what he was looking for. That was the cure for his “post-traumatic stress disorder.” Sherlock later confirmed this when John left his cane behind while they were on the run for a rogue cab.
John’s decline to spy on his flatmate for this man was the first instance of John’s growing fidelity towards Sherlock. He didn’t know why he had done so, but, again, he didn’t have time to think on it: the game was on, according to Sherlock. Their investigation led their murderer to their very front step, but John didn’t realize it until the deadly cabbie took Sherlock to a school building. He had no idea what was transpiring between the two men in one of the buildings, but John wasn’t about to take any chances. However, in his search, he had gone into the wrong building. He spotted Sherlock from the opposite window. From this window, John miraculously shot and killed the murderer. At the end of the night, when loose ends were being tied up by Scotland Yard, John denied having a hand in the shooting, though he was sure Sherlock knew. Then, the mysterious man who had “kidnapped” John earlier that evening turned up again and wouldn’t you know it: he was Sherlock’s brother, Mycroft. The reason he wanted John to spy on his brother was because he truly, deeply was concerned for his well-being. John marked he and Sherlock’s adventure on his blog, something his therapist recommended. Sherlock does not like this at all.
In their second “adventure,” John found himself investigating a strange break-in at a downtown bank. However, one of the bank’s employees -- the same man whose office had been broken into and vandalized with grafitti -- turned up dead. The police wrote it off as a suicide, but Sherlock knew it couldn’t have been and John was suspicious of the circumstances as well. After the banker’s murder, a journalist soon turns up dead in his apartment as well. At this time, John applied for and was hired at a local surgery where he met Sarah, whom he soon courted. Sherlock and John found a link between the two men; they had recently returned from a trip to China and went to a curio shop in Chinatown called “The Lucky Cat.” Here, John figured out that the symbols found at in the banker’s office and at the journalist’s home were an ancient Chinese system of numbers. With the help of a Chinese pottery expert, Soo Lin Yao, the pair find out that the code of the criminal “Black Lotus Tong” of which she was once a member. However, the assassin, who ends up being Soo Lin’s brother, strikes again, killing her. Their clues lead them to a circus that John was taking Sarah to that night. After being mistaken for Sherlock, John and Sarah are tied up, the latter sitting in front of a crossbow that will eventually shoot her. However, Sherlock solves the code and comes to John and Sarah’s rescue. The stolen treasure the Black Lotus Tong had been after ended up being a jade hairpin worn by the late banker’s secretary. The leader of the Black Lotus Tong then reveals whom she had been working for, merely giving an initial -- M -- before being shot by a sniper.
Their third investigation began with a spat between John and Sherlock about John’s exposure of Sherlock’s lack of astronomical knowledge in his blog entry. John slept at Sarah’s flat and the next morning, saw on the news that an explosion occurred on Baker Street. When John returned to Baker Street, he found Mycroft trying to convince Sherlock to take on a case about a murdered MI6 employee who had been found on train tracks with his head bashed in and a flash drive with important information missing from his person. Sherlock rejected the offer, saying that his hands are already full. However, he asked John to take the case himself. In the midst of this, Sherlock begins to receive mysterious calls from people who give him challenges to solve. The only thing is, bombs were strapped to these people and if Sherlock didn’t complete the task in the allotted time, they would die. Sherlock solves five puzzles while John solves the case of the MI6 employee, with Sherlock’s help towards the end. The employee’s brother-in-law had killed him and stole the USB because he owed large sums of money to drug dealers. Sherlock told John that he has retrieved the USB. While John went out with Sarah, Sherlock contacted the Moriarty, offering the missile plans on the USB and arranged a meeting at a swimming pool. However, when he arrived, Sherlock is met by John who seemed to taunt him at first, but eventually revealed that he was strapped to an explosive vest and that his words were being dictated like the previous hostages.
The mysterious Moriarty turned out to be Molly’s “boyfriend” Jim, from St. Bart’s. Moriarty had devised the whole plan with the puzzles to show Sherlock what he was capable of and to stay out of his way. John grabbed Moriarty, but the sniper threatening to shoot and blow up the doctor turned his (or her, who knew) pointer to Sherlock. John let Moriarty go, who left. The two of them managed to get the bomb off John and away from them, but Moriarty returned, multiple snipers pointed towards the pair. There, John and Sherlock engaged in a Mexican stand-off with Moriarty, snipers on the two men and Sherlock pointing John’s gun at the bomb standing near Moriarty’s feet.
Point in Canon: After the last episode of the series wherein he, Sherlock, and Moriarty are in a stand-off at the public pool.
Character Personality: John Watson is a very intelligent man. He and Sherlock make a good pair, but the latter's insight far surpasses his own as well as his intelligence. John's deduction is limited. John is every bit the romantic; his blog postings about he and Sherlock's cases (adventures as he likes to call them as it ruffles his roommate's feathers) always annoy the more practical Sherlock. He is open and straightforward, in some cases. John finds it difficult for him to show emotion after being stationed in Afghanistan and seeing the horrors of the controversial war firsthand. He doesn't do it that often, to be honest. He's also very quiet outside of the social gathering scene and keeps his manners.
John’s relationship with Sherlock is certainly something new to the both of them. He is quite sure he’s never met someone as interesting and as fascinating as his flatmate and John has no problem voicing this. When Sherlock works, he’s in utter awe at the man’s ability to see the finer, more important details. In addition to Sherlock’s greater intelligence, John is also aware of how much of an outcast the detective is. From the beginning, he’s felt overprotective of him, which is strange since John hasn’t really attached himself to anyone since he’s arrived home from the war. When others, especially those on the police force, told him to stay away, he merely shrugged them off. John felt that others didn’t really see Sherlock the way he did, living with him. His protectiveness was certainly seen when he shot and killed the rogue cabbie from their first investigation.
That doesn’t mean the relationship is perfect. Sherlock has some strange habits and beliefs that test John’s patience. It’s clear that John has more sympathy than Sherlock and it often gets in the way of how they operate as a team. While working on the strange case of the serial bomber who strapped bombs to innocent individuals, John was flabbergasted at how much Sherlock treated it as a game and not as something more serious. He wasn’t concerned in tracking down these individuals; he was more concerned about solving the puzzles of this madman. The icing on the cake had been when one of these individuals had actually been detonated despite Sherlock solving the game when the previous victims had survived. John was infuriated that the other man seemed to have no regrets about pushing on with the entire plot. It’s still something he holds against Sherlock.
The doctor is a very neat man. His room is always clean and his books and files are always in alphabetical order. He tends to get very anxious when something is out of place, if not short-tempered and frustrated. This is why Sherlock's disorder gets him into such a tizzy and he often loses his temper with his roommate. When he wants to get away from the stifling atmosphere that Sherlock creates, John likes to go out with his colleagues and his girlfriend, Sarah. Women like to be in his company and vice versa.
Being a private investigator provides an adrenaline rush John is more open to being addicted to than his partner's preference to nicotine patches. It's also helping him with his post-traumatic stress disorder he's been suffering from since returning from the war. If there’s one thing he despises about being a war veteran, it’s the pity he receives. John dislikes being treated as a charity case when he just wants to return to a normal lifestyle (or as much of a normal lifestyle as Sherlock will let him have). This dislike only adds fuel to the fire when it comes to his stubbornness. His appointments with his therapist are often the two of them sitting in silence; he doesn’t want to talk about it because it’ll “make him feel better.” His PSTD, along with his general stubbornness are a volatile cocktail that are only assuaged when he’s out with Sherlock.
Character Plans: John will join up with Sherlock in the city to continue their work as detectives and he will keep on blogging. However, his blog posts may also be mixed with his experiences with the monsters that come out during the Darkness and the agitation of his PTSD from all of this. Maybe. He'll also continue his day job as a doctor.
Appearance/PB: Martin Freeman
Writing Samples
First Person Sample [John starts up his computer to report on his situation which has left him disoriented for lack of a better term]
Okay, so I'm in a strange place. Jesus, I thought I'd never say those words to myself again. I've somehow ended up in this city and a very nice lady led me to some flats that are free for "newcomers" such as myself, whatever that means. In my bag was this laptop. It's certainly not my laptop back home in London on Baker Street (which Sherlock was probably using while I was at work). The young lady told me all about this place and about my new situation. I'm not sure how to take all of this and what they call the "Darkness." She told me to heed the sirens at night and find cover. Windows and doors had to be kept locked and no one could go outside until the morning sirens ended the Darkness period.
I've been plucked from home again and dropped into what sounds like a foreboding place. I honestly thought that my life would return to normal once I came back to London. Everything was going fine: I have a job, a nice flat, a wonderful girlfriend, a wonderful hobby. But no. No one can give John Watson any rest. Somehow, I want to blame Sherlock for all of this, but I don’t think this has anything to do with our work...
What's that sound--
Third Person Sample
John closed his laptop as a dull, but growing sound began to echo throughout the entire city. It was just falling beyond dusk at that point, a few last rays of the sun painting the sky a pink and purplish hue. Pushing back his chair, he got up from his tiny desk and crossed the dusty wooden floor to the grimy window. A lightbulb shined overhead, swaying and flickering briefly before going back to a dull glow. The sky was now slightly dark, but as John approached the window he noticed how quickly it was darkening. He furrowed his brow. Completely forgetting what the girl had told him about the Darkness and about windows even though he had just posted it, John opened the window anyway. It had gotten eerily windy in the time it took him to get to the window from his seat at his desk. Debris soon filled the streets as the siren wailed through the city and beat his eardrums. Suddenly, he felt the paint on the window sill cracking underneath his hands. He looked down to see the materials that made up the wall he was facing peel, crack, and turn old. Panicking, he slammed the window shut, the wind now beating against the glass.
He panted, looking down at the damage. John traced his fingers over it until he finally remembered the Darkness. Is this why the young lady had told him to refrain from opening doors and windows during this time? No; maybe the cheap flat was just that much of a dump that a small wind storm could damage it. He wiped away some of the grime from the window. Down below, he saw some things emerge from corners and alleys that he'd never seen before. They made the most horrible sounds, but he could barely hear them over the wind. Suddenly, his was transported back to Afghanistan where wind storms and things John had never seen ran rampant as well. His throat dried up, but he couldn’t tear his eyes away from what was going on in the streets.
John quickly shut the thin curtains and turned away. What kind of hell was he in now?