The Tragedy of John Watson

by now-im-just-some-sherlock-that

Two years after The Fall, and John Watson is solving cases with the help of Sherlock The only problem? This Sherlock is the creation of his own John balances on the line of sanity as he begins to piece together the truth of Sherlock's death, with the help of Sherlock But can he hold himself together long enough to do so? And will he like where his path leads?

10. Afterword

Hello hello, we've reached the end! I decided to have an afterword, because I felt that I had too much to say to put it at the end of the last chapter.

Well, the clue really was in the name. In Shakespearean times, a tragedy was a play or a story that ended in a death, or something equally as tragic, while a comedy had a happy ending, often including a marriage. From the beginning this was always going to be a tragedy- we end with the death of John Watson. Of course, it's not a physical death, rather an emotional and mental death.

The story was outlined, so I knew where everything was headed. I really want to apologize, because I feel like this could have been so much better! Thank God I'm not going to be an author. I'm too much of a slacker, and I know there are many parts that I got lazy about, so I can't apologize enough.

I had a great deal of fun writing this though, because writing it, I wanted the audience to have the same feel as John- I wanted the audience to be almost equally as unsure as John was as far was what was reality and what wasn't. Perhaps I didn't portray that as well as I would have liked. Still, I just wanted to leave the audience wondering.

I got a lot of practice writing this piece, since I used nearly every character involved. It was a lot of work, actually, having to channel so many characters and try to get in their heads.

Anyways, I'm not sure what else to say. I apologize for the last chapter being so short, but it was meant more as an epilogue I suppose. Thank you all so much for bothering to read this, and I hope you enjoyed it to the end! Please feel free to contact me whenever you'd like to chat about anything!

Hobey Ho.