Going to hope that this section is either for, or at least includes, the new BBC Sherlock :p This is actually a crossover with Boy Meets Girl - it isn't posted as that because I couldn't see a BMG category. It's probably more Sherlock anyway, it was just seeing Martin Freeman in both that made me think of it :D
I apologize if the characterizations are a little off, Sherlock isn't easy... I've tried to keep it as accurate as I could.
WARNING: may slightly spoil episode 3 if you haven't seen it.
It had taken months, and endless patience to wait for just the right weather conditions – amazing that it had taken so long for there to be a bad storm when they were in the middle of London, really – but finally, the time had arrived.
"Watson."
"Hi John… uh, I was wondering, if you weren't busy, if you could come take a look at this victim. You know, being a doctor… I thought you might be able to help."
The doctor glanced out the window, unable to resist shaking his head at the outline of his flatmate staring out the window, having already announced his fascination with the randomness of lightning. Inexplicable, he had called it.
"Sure, I'll come," he promised, trying to mask his sigh. The biggest storm in recent history was not a time he particularly wanted to leave the house, regardless of the strangeness inside.
"Who was that?" Sherlock asked when he hung up a few moments later. "It wasn't Sarah, you wouldn't have sounded so reluctant to go to her."
"Uh… it was Molly," John answered. "Asking me to go to a scene and take a look at the body. Coming?"
"In this weather?" the detective scoffed. "He was probably electrocuted due to some foolishness of his own doing, I doubt it was murder."
And anything short of an impossible murder isn't worthy of your attention. John didn't need to listen to the rest of his friend's speech as he reached for his coat and umbrella.
"Fine," he said aloud. "I'll see you later."
On the cab ride to the power station, however, he couldn't help but think about what Sherlock had said. If it was murder, why take the victim to such an out of the way location? What were the chances that it was a murder, given the location and the terrible weather?
He knew for a fact that there were a multitude of structural pieces that could have been the cause of an unfortunate electrocution, if one stood in the right place. Which, while it would be an easy way to kill someone, would not be interesting enough for a certain bored detective.
"Thanks," he pulled his coat tighter around himself, ducking his head against the torrential rain as he climbed out of the cab and fumbled for the fare.
He stood still for a moment, eyeing the large darkened building and its oppressive barb wire fence surrounding. Maybe he had been around Sherlock too long, but the fact that everything was in darkness disturbed him; if this person wasn't merely a murder victim but an employee, surely he would have been in the building, or someone else would still have been there if he was on his way out? Unless electricity hit and took out all the power, but a power station would have a generator, wouldn't it?
"John, you made it," Molly's voice shook him out of his thoughts and he turned to the petite woman standing beside him.
"Molly," he began slowly, "if this is a crime scene, where is everyone? You don't usually come alone."
"Oh, I'm just the first here," the slightly higher pitch of her voice gave away her lie. "Come on, he's over here."
He didn't miss the way she glanced at her watch, and seemed in a hurry to make it to their destination, a dark shape on what seemed to be a metal grid.
He only had a moment to wonder why the victim would have been standing in that particular spot when Molly grabbed his hand and the next thing he knew was an incredible pain before nothing but darkness.