.
"This is the end.
Hold your breath and count to ten.
Feel the earth move and then-
hear my heart burst again.
For this is the end.
I've drowned and dreamt this moment.
So overdue, I owed them.
Swept away, I'm stolen."
It'll never be easy. Sherlock knows that's the thing that will haunt John. The fact that he couldn't help, that he couldn't stop it. One minute, Sherlock was standing there and the next, he was dead. Here in a minute, gone in a flash, so it was said.
And it's doubly horrible, John thinks, because he knew since the beginning that something would happen. That he'd get a call, that the police would show up at the door, that Mycroft would sit him down to say that Sherlock had gotten himself killed. He wasn't stupid. He expected it.
But for it to happen this way? In front of his eyes?
Sherlock doesn't want it to end this way. He never has, but it's the only away. He's been swept into a much bigger plan, a life plan, and it doesn't involve staying with John for now. He knows he's stealing John's life away, but he can't do a thing about it.
John's numb. That's really all there is to it.. Everything he knows has been stolen away from him, right from under his nose. So, where does he turn to now? He supposes there's still remnants... Baker Street and Mrs Hudson and DI Lestrade on the force. But none of it's the same now.
His life is different, Sherlock reasons, throwing clothes into a suitcase as Molly stands by.
His life will never be the same, John accepts, as he watches the blood trickle down the pavement.
"Let the sky fall when it crumbles.
We will stand tall and face it all
together at sky fall."
Song: Skyfall by Adele.
Disclaimer: I do not own the song, any of the James Bond franchise, or Sherlock.
Because this is haunting and beautiful music.
(PS. 12 days until the premiere!)