Kay so here's the next chapter :D Hope you all like it. I know the chapters are short but I haven't really done a lot of writing yet so this is still a practice piece.
Oh and just in case anyone was wondering, I don't have anything against Ska music personally. It just seemed like the kind of music Sherlock wouldn't like.
"Hey Nathan, What are you listening to mate?"
John was sitting in a transporter with 6 other recently graduated army doctors on their way to Afghanistan.
His friend Nate, who was listening to music on his iPod, had the volume up so far they could all hear the fast beat of the song currently blasting from his headphones. Nate passed his headphones over to David who held them to his ears for a grand total of 3.4 seconds before taking them off and handing them back.
"That's horrible! How can you listen to that?"
John reached for the headphones, "Let me listen mate."
John put the headphones on and listened to the strange music. He lasted slightly longer than David, 11 seconds to be exact.
"That is pretty bad. What kind of music is that anyway? I don't think I've ever heard anything like it before."
Nathan reclaimed his headphones but didn't put them back on.
"It's called Ska. I've been listening to it since I was a teenager. This is one of my favourite bands. They're called Five Iron Frenzy, they're a Christian band."
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When they arrived in Afghanistan John and Nathan were assigned to the same unit. Nathan was critically injured 5 weeks into the tour while tending to a wounded soldier. He was treated and shipped to an army hospital, but he died after just 6 days.
His personal things were shipped back to his family except for a small cardboard box that was mailed to John when he arrived back in London. He hadn't gone through everything; he was fairly busy trying to find a place to live. But he did glance at the topmost items and found a small, square envelope with what felt like a CD or DVD inside. He took out the disc and found out that it was indeed a CD. He inserted it into his laptop and started the first song. A brass filled, fast paced, rock song blared from the laptop speakers and John allowed a small grin to grace his features. He took out the CD and packed it back in the box to be gone through at a later date.
He did not think about it again until 4 months later when he stumbled upon it sitting on a high shelf in his closet while searching for a misplaced jumper. Secretly he suspected that Sherlock had used it in one of his "extremely important" experiments and had simply neglected to tell him. Biting back a long-suffering sigh, he pulled the small box off his shelf and opened it.
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-Jfreak