Welcome! (Prompting: part i)

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This is a fic prompting meme based around the BBC series Sherlock, written by Stephen Moffat & Mark Gattis.

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Prompt: severed head

[azzy494]

John and Sherlock at a crime scene where the victim has been decapitated, and Sherlock asks Lestrade if he can have the head after the case is solved, which starts an argument between Jihn and Sherlock about getting a new head when they still have to old one in the fridge. With everyone else at the crime scene just watching them in horror.

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[pruriently]

This is a FANTASTIC prompt.

Fill

[azzy494]

“No,” John says.

“But--”

“No,” John says, in a tone that obviously hadn't seen the light of day since Afghanistan, a 'god-help-me-if-you-don’t-obey-my-orders-right-now-I-am-going-to-fuck-you-up' tone. Donovan relaxes just a little. Lestrade waits for the punchline. “Sherlock, we've already got a severed head, remember? It's in the fridge

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[mariana_oconnor]

Hee! Oh that's brilliant. I love the Anderson and Donovan parts. 'Sherlock-humaniser' John's job description, heh.

(And you beat me to it, mind if I post a second fill?)

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[azzy494]

I don't mind, OP probably won't mind, the meme needs more severed heads...

Go for it. :)

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[mariana_oconnor]

You are very gracious. ^_^ Thanks!

(I'd literally just finished writing it when I got back here and read yours.)

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[captain_pihkal]

brilliance!!

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[alkja]

I think I love you. Also, I love this fic.

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[blacktablet]

This is so brilliant I don't even. *cuddles it* I love that Lestrade knows them well enough to wait for the punchline, Sherlock realises that it's "not good again", and Anderson's comment about John's Sherlock-humaniser working in reverse in just loltastic and perhaps even strangely accurate.

This is just... amazing. Your dialogue is awesome. <3

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[scarletrose1324]

lol love the banter between sherlock and john

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[polaris_starz]

HEE this is brilliant. Lestrade's complete non-surprise! Bickering like a married couple over a severed head! <333

2nd Fill: Two Heads Are Better Than One (1/3)

[mariana_oconnor]

In which living conditions at 221b Baker Street are rather unsanitary and John and Sherlock bicker like an old married couple.

“John... look at this haemorrhaging.” Sherlock is crouching down by the head (not the body, the head. The body is a good two metres away. John remembers hearing, once, probably in a pub that you could only officially be pronounced dead by anyone other than a doctor if your head was more than a metre away from your body. A senile bat could have pronounced this man dead by that rule).

“No thanks.” He prefers his stomach contents inside his body. Unlike the murderer, who apparently wanted to find something in the victim’s stomach

2nd Fill: Two Heads Are Better Than One (2/3)

[mariana_oconnor]

“Sword... large, the amount of force needed to separate head from body in one motion like this indicates someone very strong, so most likely male. Also taller than the victim.”

“Sword?” Lestrade says, “not an axe?”

“No,” Sherlock’s on his feet and staring at them in astonishment before the words have even left Lestrade’s lips. John almost takes a step forward. Sometimes Sherlock gets rather into things. “The striations on the spinal column clearly indicate that this murder was performed with a straight blade...”

“Because everyone knows how different blades cut through the spinal column,” Sergeant Donovan mutters.

“The murder itself is plebeian. Ritualistic killing involving a cult or society of some kind, this man was a courier -betrayed the society. A quick search of the execution practises of various religions and cults should sort out where to look. That is not what I’m interested in.”

“I said no,” John repeats himself. Sometimes, if you keep saying the same thing enough Sherlock listens just to work out whether or not you’ve

2nd Fill: Two Heads Are Better Than One (3/3)

[mariana_oconnor]

“Whatever I like,” Sherlock says, slowly. He’s trying to work out the trap. He can read John like a book, but he never looks in that fridge.

“Yes,” John agrees again, grinning broadly, “which is why you have filled your half of the fridge with one severed hand, the contents of two stomachs, a pint of blood, one lung, two types of deadly bacteria and your very own severed head. In fact,” John contemplates the matter for a second, “That might already take up more than half of the fridge. Going by your own logic you might have to give up the blood... or the lung.”

Sherlock stares at him, eyes wide and stricken. To John’s right Lestrade is staring in open horror at the very idea of their kitchen and Sally Donovan is almost definitely reaching for her gun.

“You’d only forget about it, anyway,” he says.

“But...” Sherlock is struggling for a response.

“No more heads, Sherlock. There’s nothing wrong with the one you’ve already got.”

“It’s decomposing,” Sherlock might actually be pouting now

Re: 2nd Fill: Two Heads Are Better Than One (3/3)

[azzy494]

I’m stuck between fighting feelings of inadequacy and cackling like a loon.

I suspect cackling like a loon is going to win.

Ah, I’m glad I just used ‘fill’ now, it would have been a terrible faux pas if we’d used the same title...

Re: 2nd Fill: Two Heads Are Better Than One (3/3)

[mariana_oconnor]

Inadequacy? Fie! (I have no idea why I just typed that, I think I'm in a Shakespearean sort of a mood) Yours was awesome. I wanted to focus more on the police reactions, but I can't really get Anderson and Sally right.

(also, I tend to ramble... and waffle, a lot. Hence why what was supposed to be tiny turned into 3 parts. >.<;;)

I probably shouldn't have done it... but my bad pun sensors are offline for some reason. ^_^ Heh.

Glad you liked it.