The Doctor and the Jersey Boy

by Glory1863

Dr. John Watson likes all kinds of music. He was once a big Bruce Springsteen fan, but that, like so many other things, changed after Sherlock took the Reichenbach Fall. Inspired by listening to YouTube clips of Mr. Freeman and his lady sitting in for Stephen Merchant on BBC Radio. It seems that Mr. Freeman is not a Bruce Springsteen fan. Here's Dr. Watson's take on that.

Sherlock was lying on the sofa, just this side of bored, while John cleaned the kitchen and sang a parody of the pop song on the radio.

Got in a little hometown jam

So they put a Browning in my hand

Sent me off to Afghanistan

To go and kill the Taliban.

Born in the Queen's UK.

I was born in the Queen's UK.

"Really, John!"

"You play the violin while thinking. I listen to Stephen Merchant while cleaning."

"That's not listening. That's caterwauling. Bored!"

Music seeped out of John's room as he was dressing for a date.

Can't start a fire without a spark.

This gun's for hire,

Even if we're just dancing in the dark.

John came downstairs in a new sky blue suit and warned Sherlock, "I'm taking Mary to Angelo's. Don't text me!"

Mrs. Hudson saw John before he left. "Very sharp, dear. That color really highlights your eyes, and it makes you look taller."

For weeks after Sherlock's fall from the roof of Bart's, everywhere John went, from the market to the elevator at the clinic, all he heard was:

Well now everything dies baby that's a fact

But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.

Sherlock granting that miracle was not just improbable; it was impossible.

John ceased to be a fan of The Boss.