I have read a whole load of songfics in my time on this site, and I figured it was about time that I tried one myself! I have started with this song because it is utterly beautiful and it has been one of my favourite songs for like FOREVER :) I've got at least 5 other songfics already at least partially written, and so this definitely has the potential to continue :)

This describes Sherlock's thoughts in the final moments before he falls. This is inspired by The Lightning Strike by Snow Patrol, and I thoroughly recommend that you check out the song! It's totally awesome (^.^)

Right, I'm going to stop babbling now and just let you read it :P Enjoy! (^.^)

I stand on the edge. Moriarty's empty, lifeless corpse lies behind me. I am holding my phone up to my ear, and I know that I am talking but I cannot hear the words I say. The thoughts raging in my head are too loud. He is too far away for me to see him properly, but I can picture him in my mind's eye. John. I feel a sudden ache in my chest, and I almost laugh as I realise what it is. I am about to lose you, John, and it is breaking the heart I thought I had buried deep within me. I don't laugh though. Even I can tell that it would be a bit not good.

I can still remember the feelings that raced through me when I first saw you. You were perfect. I told you all about your life, but I didn't tell you about you. About how your eyes looked so haunted, and I wanted to make them smile again. Your hair looked so soft, your lips, so kissable. And in the hours that followed I learned that you were fiercely brave, fiercely loyal. You killed a man to save me, John, and now I must die to save you.

I would have followed you to the ends of the Earth. If anyone had taken you from me I would have hunted them down. And now that I must take myself from you I will hunt down the ones that have forced my hand. I will cut every strand on Moriarty's web until it is nothing but a ruin at my feet. They will all pay.

When you entered my life I knew I could never leave you. Everything was so dull and boring and tedious and then suddenly, there was you. You shone out in the darkness. You never let me down. You gave me a heart, John, and I will forever be in your debt because you showed me how to feel. You showed me that feelings don't have to put you at a disadvantage, that they can make you stronger. But still sentiment will ruin me. And although Moriarty will never win, in a way I have lost. He has made me do something that I would never have willingly done - hurt you. And I am...sorry.

When this is over, I will return to you. I know you will be waiting for me when I do. But if I can't return, if all you have left of me is memories, promise me you will hold onto them? I will always be there, in your mind, in your heart. Just a shadow of myself. Just a memory. Just an echo. But still I will be there. Never forget me?

Already I can feel my mind readying itself for the chase. I know already what I must do. First I must take out the gunmen on Mrs Hudson and Lestrade, then work my way up through the web until only one remains. Your gunman. Sebastian Moran. Jim's right hand man. Or technically his left hand man.

I will destroy them, annihilate them. Burn. Them. Until they all rue the day their master played his games with me.

This is going to hurt me just as much as it will hurt you. I hear your indignant snort in my head because I know you would never believe that, but it is true. I want to wake each morning to your wonderful complaints about my experiments, and I want to be allowed to kiss you and apologise and promise to stop, and you'll smile and shake your head because you'll know I don't really mean it, but neither of us will mind. I want to never buy you milk. I want to hold you in my arms late at night and entwine my fingers in your hair as you sleep. I want to grow old with you. I want you to smile at me in the way that only you do every single day for the rest of a very long forever.

The next months and years will be so hard for me. I will have to torture and maim and kill. I don't know if I'll have the strength. So I'm going to think of you for every second of it. I can do all these things and more if I can feel your heart inside of me. I am a coward, John, I hide behind fancy words and a childish recklessness, but my dear John, the thought of you is all I need.

I wish you could come with me. I know you cannot.

This is it.

I spread my wings and fall.

Goodbye, John. Goodbye.

So yeah :P This is only the start of a potentially rather large collection of short but sweet oneshots :)

Please review and let me know what you think - if you guys like this then I promise I'll keep going! I might just keep going anyway cos this is fun :P

Also, please PM me if you have any requests for songs that might inspire good fics!

Luv, as always,

-iamthedaisyqueen xxx