Fic: 221B - Washed ashore

[anarion]

Title: Washed ashore
Words: 221
Rating: PG-13
Pairings : Sherlock/John
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: Not mine.

Summary: ‘365 days of 221Bs’ challenge: a prompt a day, given by atlinmerrick.





Previous 221b: Things on the to-do list of life


Today's prompt: fun

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Washed ashore


What do Sherlock and John do for fun? Oh, their work is (mostly) fun to them, but that’s not what I mean.

Sherlock loves his experiments, research on all kinds of stuff, the more disgusting the better. He reads the newspaper because he is looking for crime. John reads the newspaper because he wants to know what happens in the world.

John likes books. Fiction, which Sherlock thinks is a waste of time. He likes to meet Greg for a pint or Stamford for a coffee.

One thing they have in common? Sex. Oh yes. They do this for fun.

But apart from that? Not so much. Usually they’re both fine with it, sitting on the sofa each wrapped up in something to read and in each other.

One morning John decided that he wanted them to have a ‘joint activity’. He made Sherlock go for a walk with him.

They walked down to South Bank and watched the sand artists for a while. Before Sherlock could get mean, John walked down the stairs to see if something interesting had washed up on the shore.

Sherlock shuffled behind him, seemingly uninterested, until he suddenly exclaimed something and started picking up things.

John walked closer to take a look and laughed out loud. Trust Sherlock to find the bones on the beach.





Next 221b: Distraction


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AN:
Today's prompt was 'fun'.

LJ was wonky yesterday, hope it's better today. In case you missed my post, there was car!sex. :D

The bone beach actually exists. Atlin and I amused a bunch of passers-by because we collected all the bones we found and tried to build a skeleton.











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Comments

[atlinmerrick.livejournal.com]

I love this I love this I love this. Because you and me and the shades of John and Sherlock are all on that beach together.

It's an amazing wee little strip of beach, folks, the bones can only be found in an area about 100 metres wide. It's amazing and creepy and Anarion and I were on that beach for hours and the only reason we stopped is we couldn't carry any more bones.

Anarion worried about returning to Germany with all these dead body parts in her luggage but no one seemed to care. Sherlock would approve.

Anyway, I love this my precious and can't wait to go back to that beach with you!

[chocolamousse.livejournal.com]

I read the title and I thought, "It must be a metaphor, it's going to be a sad one about Sherlock who feels abandoned or...", then I read the prompt and felt better. :D

Fiction, which Sherlock thinks is a waste of time.
Yep. Utterly canon: "Knowledge of Literature.—Nil."

sitting on the sofa each wrapped up in something to read and in each other
Awww, it's an adorable image.

I can picture them so well on the beach. What Sherlock does, it's so him! And I suppose that he's going to deduce who these people were and how they died. (And he will be right, of course.)

Atlin and I amused a bunch of passers-by because we collected all the bones we found and tried to build a skeleton.
*reads the sentence twice*
So, this is what you do for fun? I probably should find it creepy but I think it's rather funny. Should I be scared? Also, who was Sherlock and who was John? I guess the tall one with curly hair was Sherlock. :D

Shouldn't it be "John decided that he wanted"? :-)

[chocolamousse.livejournal.com]

ANARION TOOK THE BONES WHEN SHE WENT BACK TO GERMANY??? And you say that so casually! Is she doing voodoo or something to invoke the happy days she spent in London with you? :D

[chocolamousse.livejournal.com]

Also... *looks closely at the photo* You built the skeleton of a... what??? :D

[rox712.livejournal.com]

Oh thank God I'm not the only one who thinks that's kind of creepy! That's what you guys do for fun?

[rox712.livejournal.com]

Isn't that something Benedict said in that Jaguar ad? That he feels alive on the sofa reading a book? He forgot to tell us that he isn't alone... Oops, confusing RL with fiction again, sorry, my fault.

(I just saw that I quoted Chocolamousse about the fun thing. But it's true so I'll leave it there.)

[chocolamousse.livejournal.com]

I picture her confronting with a customs officer: "It's for science John." :D

[rox712.livejournal.com]

Yes! And at home she puts them under her microscope and tries to deduce the cause of death.

[chocolamousse.livejournal.com]

Wait. She's got a microscope? All right, let's suppose she has. And then she's very disappointed because Martin Freeman is not there when she says, "Pass me my phone." The said phone being in her jacket, of course. The jacket she is wearing.

[anarion.livejournal.com]

*imagines John gropping for a phone in her jacket*

*goes off to her happy place*

[anarion.livejournal.com]

Wait, isn't that what people do for fun??? o.O

[ledasdaughter.livejournal.com]

which part of the beach is that? cause I found loads of bones on the North bank below the Millennium bridge; and lots of china shards,...so many I could have made a mosaik; but then I left them there :p

[anarion.livejournal.com]

It's right next to the 'Sherlock' pier. :D

[anarion.livejournal.com]

Isn't it obvious? :P

[anarion.livejournal.com]

I probably should find it creepy



Should I be scared?


I guess the tall one with curly hair was Sherlock.
She also has the coat of awesome. Wait, how do you know that I'm short and she is tall? o.O

[anarion.livejournal.com]

Yes, baby. You, me, the beach and the bones! *feels oddly like Sherlock*

[chocolamousse.livejournal.com]

Ha! I've never said you're small, but NOW I know you are! :D Well, I'm very tempted to answer, with a mysterious look, "I've deduced it." But no. It's just that Atlin looks rather tall in the photos of herself she posts on her Tumblr, for example the one with Mark Gatiss. As for you, I vaguely remember some comments in your journal, or some answers to your comments in other journals (Verity's, Ariane's or Atlin's, I guess) which implied that, er, saying you're tall would be a blatant exaggeration. :D Which is a thing I tend to remember because saying that I'm tall myself would be a pretty blabant exaggeration too.

*pops round to her mind palace*

Ah, I know! Just look here:
"with three and a half wonderful writers
And for a moment I thought you meant me when saying 'half'. ;)"
You see? YOU says it! :D

[rox712.livejournal.com]

I realy like the way you think!

[verityburns.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think people are getting too hooked on the bones. For me, this one goes:

experiments
research
newspaper
books
Fiction
Greg
pint
Stamford
coffee.
SEX. OH YES. THEY DO THIS FOR FUN.
walk
sand artists
bones
beach

LOVE IT!

[anarion.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I love you! <3

[purrculier1.livejournal.com]

IT'S A DYLAEK!! right? oh please say that it is.
(i can just see the headline: Fossil evidence found, Dr.Who is fact not fiction)
'Cause if that's what it is *Anarion* and *Atlin* are officialy:

"THE-TWO-MOST-AWESOME-PEOPLE-ON-THE-PLANET."
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Ahem,sorry side tracked. Sweet story. Nice look at their relationship.
Couples don't have to have the same hobbies. In fact it's good when they have separate ones becaus...

"One thing they have in common? Sex. Oh yes. They do this for fun."

But of course shared interests are terribly vital as well.