Sherlock Fic: Time To Say Goodbye

[sarlania]

NAME: Time to Say Goodbye
PAIRING: John/Sherlock
RATING: R
SPOILERS: None
WORD COUNT: 4000
WARNINGS: Descriptions of medical conditions that may be confronting.
DISCLAIMER: Not mine. Sherlock belongs to the wonderful Mr Moffat and Mr Gatiss.
SUMMARY: Some things are never forgotten. One of John's patients triggers a memory from his childhood.

Comments

[how_to_shine]

fascinating - I'd never heard of this disease so was really interesting to read about it and I loved the way you wrote the effects on John.

[sarlania]

Thank you! I like me some John and Sherlock backstory. =) It's a weird thing to be writing about I know, but FOP is really one of those diseases that stick in the mind, because its effects are so horrifying.

[tinydundie42]

Wow, I was actually in the same room as that skeleton a couple of weeks ago. Your story was very eye opening though, being in a museum full of body parts and skeletons only succeeded in forcing me to shut my brain off, and your writing let me slow down and think what this would be like for an actual person. So there you go, you are more informative than the Mutter Museum!

[sarlania]

It's really quite confronting, isn't it? To see the effects of diseases, not just FOP, so intimately like that. It's things like this that really motivates me to study what I'm studying right now. =)

So there you go, you are more informative than the Mutter Museum!
Hehehe that makes me feel so happy indeed ;) Thank you!

[tinydundie42]

My cousin who wants to be a doctor begged me to take him there, but it ended up being just a bit too much for both of us. I'm going to be a therapist, talking to people is more my strength. He has some time to get over the eeriness of the insides of our bodies though, he's still in high school.

Can you tell how proud I am? Most teenage boys who visit their older cousins in cities for vacations don't ask to be taken to museums.

[sarlania]

Wow you have every right to be proud!!!!! I wish my brother was like that. I think if he's as interested as he is now, he would make a very good doctor. I wish both of you the best of luck with your studies!

He has some time to get over the eeriness of the insides of our bodies though, he's still in high school.
Definitely. It takes a while to get used to how well structured and organized the human body is down to the molecular level.

[rabidsamfan]

Oh, this was lovely in an aching kind of way.

[sarlania]

♥ Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I confess I do enjoy provoking that kind of emotion. ;)

[the_tire_swing]

This is achingly sad, but a wonderful fic to bring awareness. Poor John. Loved Sherlock getting John to finally tell him what had happened.

[sarlania]

Thank you! :D

One of the greatest things I enjoy about being fandom is how everyone gets together to help raise awareness or donation to relevant causes - such as more recent help_japan, or the outpouring of donations to Cancer research foundations after Elisabeth Sladen's death.

[zevbaldwin]

Great!