I'm a great great fan of BAMF!John. I like fics where John gets hurt and still somehow manages to stay calm and reassure Sherlock or whatever. But in reality, I'm pretty sure the majority of people who get shot lose their calm, even if they used to be in the army.
I'd like to read something where John is quite seriously injured, but stays conscious and he panics completely. He doesn't want to die, and he feels the blood on his clothes -his own blood-, he can't breathe, his heart is beating like a hammer, he can feel his life seeping away and he can't do anything to stop that.
You can decide if Sherlock is afraid and feeding John's panic by panicking himself, or if he stays more or less calm and in control -but still worried.
John felt it before he realised what had happened, a powerful impact to his gut, like a punch that had somehow broken skin and forced its way in. He fell to his knees, the impact hard on the harsh concrete, and collapsed to his side, trying to clutch at the burning pain deep within his body.
His hands came away wet with blood, and they were trembling. John was trembling.
The man who shot him (a young thug heavily involved in the gang murder Sherlock was investigating) saw him go down and spotted an opportunity for further violence. He crouched near John and aimed the gun at his ear, tilting his head this way and that, listening to John's hurt gasping breaths as if they were music.
"Should I put you out of your misery?" murmured the sadist, smirking. "Or should I let you bleed out in the muck? Whadya think, copper?"
I don't want to die, please God, not like this -Sherlock leapt out of his hiding place in the alleyway and smashed a lead pipe to the man's skull, killing him instantly. The body fell and landed face to face with John,
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I'd like to read something where John is quite seriously injured, but stays conscious and he panics completely. He doesn't want to die, and he feels the blood on his clothes -his own blood-, he can't breathe, his heart is beating like a hammer, he can feel his life seeping away and he can't do anything to stop that.
You can decide if Sherlock is afraid and feeding John's panic by panicking himself, or if he stays more or less calm and in control -but still worried.
Sorry fo the tl;dr.
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So rare, yet so fun to read.
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His hands came away wet with blood, and they were trembling. John was trembling.
The man who shot him (a young thug heavily involved in the gang murder Sherlock was investigating) saw him go down and spotted an opportunity for further violence. He crouched near John and aimed the gun at his ear, tilting his head this way and that, listening to John's hurt gasping breaths as if they were music.
"Should I put you out of your misery?" murmured the sadist, smirking. "Or should I let you bleed out in the muck? Whadya think, copper?"
I don't want to die, please God, not like this -Sherlock leapt out of his hiding place in the alleyway and smashed a lead pipe to the man's skull, killing him instantly. The body fell and landed face to face with John, ( ... )
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