Hello! *waves*
This is a silly-ish, fluffy crack!fic I wrote late at night last week. I'm reading up on the original series at the moment, and a sleepless Holmes was mentioned somewhere. My tired brain reacted by creating this.
He can hear Sherlock pace in his room.
It is going to be one of those nights.
Why on Earth did he move in with that brilliant madman?
He thinks of all those times he is the sleepless one.
Sherlock plays his violin and then he sleeps after all.
John can't play the violin.
He played clarinet when he was a kid, but that was long ago.
Ages.
He has probably forgotten how to by now.
Anyway, he doesn't own a clarinet.
Drifting, the bed is a soft warm sea.
He wants to help Sherlock sleep.
He could give him drugged tea.
The world is soft and warm.
He could hit him hard over the head.
He drifts.
He doesn't want to get up.
He starts sinking.
He could send Sherlock a playlist and hope the madman doesn't blast it.
Yes.
He is hovering in the soft warm sea.
The pieces flit through his mind.
He reaches for his phone.
He surfaces.
Come to me
Messages
Dream in an Open Place
Song of the Seas
From Where I Am
Tea House Moon
Once You Had Gold
Athair A Neamh
A Day Without Rain
Amid the Falling Snow
River
On Your Shore
Drifting
He is on the surface.
His fingers find them.
He presses "Send".
The pacing stops.
He begins to sink again.
He can vaguely hear the first notes.
He is sinking and drifting.
His phone buzzes.
The surface is hard and cold.
"Thank you."
He smiles.
He sinks again.
The music flows from the speakers in gentle waves.
He hears Sherlock's bed creak slightly.
He starts drifting away.
Only the music is heard.
Drifting in a sea of soft warm down.
He smiles happily.
He has helped Sherlock sleep.
Drifting.
Drifting.
So, what do you think? The songs Come to me, Messages, Dream in an Open Place and Song of the Seas Belong to Vangelis, the rest to Enya. I always figured John would be a Dire Straits fan, but you can't really sleep to Industrial Disease. Hence this weird list, which I recommend to those of you who like New Age, both the Enya kind and the more... New Age-ish stuff. My personal faves here are Messages and A Day Without Rain.
Anyway, reviews are not only appreciated but devoured whole and always replied to. Please note that all flamers will be used to feed my own personal Balrog army.