Title: Once So Fast
Disclaimer: Me no own, You no sue.
Warning: PTSD, language, spoiler for 2x03
You've seen so much blood and pain and death during your years.
Why should this be any different?
Sherlock!
The nightmares – once so fast and violent and boom-boom-boom-inyourfacehereIamyou'llnotbegettinganysleepHA! – are slower, now. Slowly, you hear yourself scream his name until you're hoarse. Slowly, you watch Sherlock fall. Slowly, oh so very fucking slowly, you make your way across the street. Slowly, Sherlock's blood is spreading across the sidewalk.
Sherlock!
You've seen so much blood and pain and death during your life – you're a doctor.
So why, why should this be any different?
Sherlock!
Ah, yes; that it explains.
It's Sherlock's blood, it's Sherlock's pain, and it's Sherlock's death; and it haunts you. It will continue to haunt you until Sherlock is done playing dead and comes back to life.
And it shouldn't be too long now. Being dead is boring.
End.