This is my new story. It's the first multi-chapter story I've written and finished so I apologise if it's not very good. I know the chapters aren't very long. Obviously this story includes major character injury (brain damage) and mute!Sherlock. Sorry this chapter is so short. There are 8 chapters that vary in length. I intend to post at least one per day depending on how this opening chapter is received. Sorry for any mistakes.
Chapter 1
4 days, 23 hours and 20 minutes
That was precisely how long it had been since the consulting detective had fallen unconscious. It had been early on in the afternoon and Sherlock had been on his way home from the crime scene when the cab he had been travelling in was hit head on by a speeding car. The driver of the cab had died on impact.
Sherlock had been catapulted upwards, his head colliding roughly with the roof of the cab, his scalp splitting open on impact and blood beginning to pour down the side of his face, matting his black curls together. Miraculously, the man hadn't been knocked unconscious immediately.
Somehow, he managed to muster enough strength to drag himself out of the upturned cab and crawl over to the roadside, leaning up against a phone box. Moments later, he was surrounded by the people who had witnessed the crash.
3 minutes and 12 seconds
That's how long it took from reaching the pavement before Sherlock succumbed to the darkness that was beginning to cloud his vision. He only just registered the distant wail of sirens. Emergency services surely rushing to the scene.
2 hours and 30 minutes
That was the amount of time it had taken the emergency services to figure out that if they looked in the wallet kept in Sherlock's back pocket, they would find a card listing Doctor John Watson was his emergency contact. It was how long it took for John to be made aware of the accident.
A young police officer had received an earful about his incompetence before John had hung up and set off to St. Bartholomew's hospital.
It took John less than an hour to sprint there as he clearly couldn't rely on the traffic. Most of the roads had been blocked off due to the resurfacing of the streets that was taking place and others were jam packed with slow moving traffic due to the accident that had put his best friend in hospital.
John had been at his best friend's bedside since he had been let out of surgery. They had operated as soon as he had been brought in, having found swelling around the detective's brain. It was vital they operated to remove the pressure immediately.
There had been speculation about the extent of the man's injuries, but the neurosurgeon had informed John that it would be highly unlikely that he would walk away from such a crash with no brain damage.
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