Lexus T.
Heart
Author/Editor: Lexus
Rating: E10+
Subject: TV Shows - BBC Sherlock
Genre: Detective-mystery, Angst
Pairing: (One-sided) Sherlock/Watson
Summary: Sherlock's thoughts on the words of Moriarty.
"I will burn you."
The words themselves dripped of hostility. Of all his years in the detective job, Sherlock had never heard such anger, such hatred. Sherlock himself was used to hostility. He has heard insults many times over, like 'freak', 'psychopath', 'insane' . . . But he had never heard something like this, as he stood here by the pool, arms raised, gun pointed at the man known as Moriarty, who had been just some strange, homosexual kid who had caught the heart of Molly, who had always been infatuated with Sherlock, for one reason or another. And just that man was standing in front of him, eyes narrowed and calm, but the eyes of a loonatic. Moriarty was enjoying this.
Only a foot away was John. John Watson. The man who had agreed to live with Sherlock, even with his hatred of the wall of their apartment(which was now filled with bullet holes that stirred up into a smiley-face), the severed heads in the refrigerator(and numerous other body parts in the cabinets and microwave), his eccentric ways and his nicotine-patches. And even after everything, after all the cases they solved, and how close John's girlfriend got to dying in the midst, John had still stuck with him.
That had amazed Sherlock. That was probably why he had this obsession over the man. Over John Watson, an ordinary military-doctor, who had never ceased to amaze him. Because as hard as it was to admit, he was best friends with him, and the sharp pain in his chest was unbearable, because he knew if he got John killed, he wouldn't be able to live with himself.
Now here they stood with the murderer that had caused this case altogether, and John was standing there, staring at Sherlock with a heart-breaking look of terror and even if he used to be a military-doctor, he was scared. Scared of the bomb that was strapped to his chest, scared of Sherlock's safety, because the second Sherlock shoots Moriarty, his snipers would shoot right into the bomb, killing Sherlock and him. And Sherlock dying on him was probably the worst thing that could happen to him.
And Sherlock could only guess(he never 'guesses') that he really did have a heart.
"I will burn the heart out of you."
He knew what Moriarty meant. Moriarty knew without John, he was just a normal detective. It was brilliant.
He put his finger on the trigger.
Because without John Watson, there was no Sherlock Holmes.
"Checkmate."
FIN
