Fic: 221B - Game Over
Dec. 17th, 2012 08:42 pmTitle: Game Over
Words: a 221B has 221 words and ends with a b-word
Rating: PG-13
Pairings : Sherlock/John
Warnings: Character death (In a way. Not really)
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: ‘365 days of 221Bs’ challenge: a prompt a day, given by
Previous 221b: Mental cinema
Today's prompt:
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Game Over
He was just a shadow moving in the dark, the only thing reflecting the light was his weapon. John squinted and leaned forward to get a better look and almost got skewered by what turned out to be a knife. A knife that was so long it looked more like a longsword and was wielded with perfect expertise.
Its tip caught John’s right arm, slashed through cloth, skin and flesh and left a deep and painful gash.
“God dammit!”
John lashed out with his own weapon and missed. But he managed to drive the attacker back a bit.
Sherlock was talking to him. John had no time to focus on him, because the dark figure moved again, raising his weapon. John matched the movement, keeping his body between the attacker and his wounded companion on the ground.
The figure hissed.
“John.”
“Not now.”
The attacker’s knife caught the light as he attacked again.
“John.”
Sherlock’s silhouette appeared between John and his attacker. The knife found its target and a body fell to the ground.
The screen turned black.
“Sherlock! What the hell are you doing? I almost got him! I could’ve killed him.”
“I am going to kill you if you don’t stop playing that ridiculous computer game and come to bed with me.”
“It’s not ridiculous. It’s ‘The Dark Blade’!”
Next 221b: For oral intake
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AN:
The prompt was 'demon'.
Sorry, no Monday porn. But there's going to be Advent smut tomorrow! :D
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Date: 2012-12-17 07:52 pm (UTC)This may explain the inelegant snorting which accompanied my reading of:
'the only thing reflecting the light was his weapon'
Either that, or Atlin's influence is getting stronger by the hour :D
Very entertaining, my dear - considerably more so than the aforementioned night out, as it happens!
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Date: 2012-12-17 09:16 pm (UTC)In other words, it's entirely your fault.So, I read this sentence and started to snigger because it made me think of a scene from Blake Edwards' Skin Deep. Anarion, it's Blake Edwards so it's art. It's CULTURE. And you can't blame me. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5u6vm44ak
(You can start at 1.25.)
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Date: 2012-12-17 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-17 08:55 pm (UTC)What? Hey! HEY!
He was just a shadow moving in the dark, the only thing reflecting the light was his weapon.
Well this first sentence is not ominous at all. *smiles nervously* I'm sure there will be porn at the end. *believes in autosuggestion*
Its tip caught John’s right arm, slashed through cloth, skin and flesh and left a deep and painful gash.
Oh, yuck. You didn't say it was gore too!
keeping his body between the attacker and his wounded companion on the ground.
Now I don't know if it's John or Sherlock who is going to die. Great. Both, I hope. *is sardonic when she's angsting too much*
The knife found its target and a body fell to the ground.
Right. I give up. Farewell Anarion, it's been nice knowing you
when you wrote porn and fluff.“I am going to kill you if you don’t stop playing that ridiculous computer game and come to bed with me.”
Come to bed with me! There will be porn! And a lot of petites morts I guess. (The only kind of "major character death" I put up with and encourage.) :D
You know Anarion I don't think Atlin gave you a prompt when she said "Demon" to you. I think she was stating her opinion about you. YOU ARE EVIL. It was clever and funny but you. Are. Evil. (But in a nice way, okay?) :D
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Date: 2012-12-17 09:28 pm (UTC)Here's what I can tell you about Anarion (other than she gives magnificent, I'm-totally-not-lying-about-that, hugs): I have no clue about Anarion.
I give her prompts and while I know where my brain would go with almost all of them (along well-worn and often typical tracks), Anarion's brain just flies off the rails again and again and frankly I will not be surprised if one day I prompt "Santa Claus" and her extremely logical (after you finish reading) 221B will involve alien abduction and celery.
Seriously, don't even look at me, I just prompt a luminous, lovely, extremely creative lunatic.
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Date: 2012-12-17 09:36 pm (UTC)OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? I hope she's not going to read that. Otherwise, Christmas is cancelled.
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Date: 2012-12-17 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-17 09:48 pm (UTC)(*shifty, nervous eyes* Um, right?)
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Date: 2012-12-17 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-17 10:14 pm (UTC)And, and I will never record Verity's divine giggle-squeal for you. How's that for a dangling carrot? (Or celery.) (Maybe penis, I don't know, I've now completely lost track of my threat.)
*Still, Atlin has a proud*
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Date: 2012-12-17 10:28 pm (UTC)*looks West*
*adjusts her peas*
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Date: 2012-12-17 10:50 pm (UTC)*looks West*
*adjusts her peas*
Anarion, I'm so sorry this has veered wildly, but I am half dying over here. Chocola, I may need to marry you.
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Date: 2012-12-17 11:06 pm (UTC)*is so very subtle*
P.S. Yes, I'm sorry too Anarion. I hope you can see it's absolutely not my fault. It's Atlin, she teases me with celery.
*re-reads the last sentence*
Right. I think it's time for bed. :D
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Date: 2012-12-17 10:22 pm (UTC)You must write more fic. You MUST. It is actually causing me pain to think that you're not. You don't want me to suffer do you? DO YOU?
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Date: 2012-12-17 10:42 pm (UTC)P.S. Of course you do the voice. You cannot not do the voice. I hope you do the fight choreography too, with the leaps and all. Sorry, Dog.
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Date: 2012-12-17 10:51 pm (UTC)Yeah. Definitely either marry you or have you canonized. You pick.
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Date: 2012-12-17 09:47 pm (UTC)I can't not hear that in John's you're-an-idiot-Sherlock voice.
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Date: 2012-12-17 09:30 pm (UTC)All that said your title totally gives everything away in a way and yet that's only obvious after reading. Your brain: It's a convoluted marvel.
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Date: 2012-12-17 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-18 07:44 pm (UTC)I now have mental cinema that involves Sherlock, John and celery.
And yet I still don't feel the need to run screaming...what does that say about me?
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Date: 2012-12-18 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-19 09:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 04:04 am (UTC)I'd be happy to provide home-grown celery upon request, BTW.
(Harry, my 8 year old, insists on maintaining the last of our bounty in the raised bed out back.)
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Date: 2012-12-20 09:49 am (UTC)