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[ SECRET POST #5398 ]
⌈ Secret Post #5398 ⌋
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A self-indulgent, in-depth description of the Johnlock/Matrix fusion I’ve always pined for.
(Anonymous) 2021-10-17 01:38 am (UTC)(link)The story starts with John, who catches a glimpse of the real world when he flat-lines in Afghanistan. Then he gets revived. Back in London, having been invalided home, his world is gray and small, and he can’t shake the nagging conviction that there’s something false and unreal about the drab but safe world he wakes up in every single day. His therapist and the army therapist both attributed his issues to PTSD and grief at losing his chosen purpose, and John hopes they’re right. He certainly knows better than to be honest about how deep his sense of derealization truly goes. He doesn’t tell anyone about the conviction that’s been slowly building inside him that none of this is real, or the equally disturbing conviction that there’s something else; something that’s always there, enveloping him, skittering along his nerves, an important answer he’s forgetting the question to.
Meanwhile, Sherlock’s been living with the bitter piece of so-called “foresight” the Oracle bequeathed him years ago, when he first went to see her: His destiny is to fall in love with The One.
Sherlock is used to the incompetence of others, but he never expected such patently ridiculous fictions from the mouth of their so-called seer. The Fates wept. Sherlock is brilliant, inside and outside of the matrix! Some of his abilities are unparalleled even by Mycroft himself (though the great git will never admit it)! For a time it was thought that Sherlock himself might be The One (which was ridiculous of course, because as Sherlock has always maintained, there is no One). So to have his destiny, his purpose, dictated to him by an elderly landlady baking biscuits in a tenement block, and to have it implied that whatever else he does, his act of greatest note and consequence will be to fall in love! Sherlock would sooner have his brain dribble right out his ears. Fortunately for him, he believes in neither. They’re both panaceas for helping the feeble minded (which is almost everyone) cope with uncertainty, chaos, and loneliness. So that’s that. The Oracle is wrong. The Oracle is possibly a complete charlatan. It’s of no matter to Sherlock one way or the other.
Except, he suspects that Mycroft somehow suspects what the Oracle said to him; brother dearest and his ever-watchful eye, summoning Sherlock like a taciturn show pony each time he fancies he’s discovered some new potential messiah. Then watching him like a litmus test. It’s intolerable. Sherlock makes himself as disagreeable as he possibly can, particularly in the presence of Mycroft and his bloody potentials. He hopes Zion seethes with word of how positively hateful their great leader’s little brother is; how utterly devoid he is of any quality that could resemble, or inspire, love.
Notably, John Watson is not one of Mycroft’s potentials.
John Watson is nothing, just a bit of a curiosity that Sherlock’s keen eye unearthed from the coding by chance one restless sleep cycle. Studying John is a diversion--something to occupy his mind instead of loathsome sleeping. But what Sherlock doesn’t understand is why certain things John does are so unpredictable. Sometimes is even seems as though he suspects he’s being watched. And when watching John turns to following John, and following John turns to making contact with John (purely because Sherlock hates unanswered mysteries of course), it’s only a matter of time before something goes awry, and Sherlock is located by the wrong entities entirely. At which point he has to flee for his life.
Unfortunately, rather than leave Sherlock to his fate, when Sherlock tenses in the middle of their first meeting and then flees without so much as a by your leave, John makes the unfathomable decision to go after Sherlock and try to help him. Help him! Help the caustic stranger who just smugly deduced a bunch of John’s most painful experiences and is possibly stalking him! (It can be little wonder why Sherlock has been driven to make a close study of such an absurd and nonsensical individual!)
Which leads to Sherlock impulsively cramming a red pill down John’s throat with one hand while he holds a ringing phone in the other, and hoping like hell he can pull off a rushed extraction when they reach the other side.
(Fic may also feature: Mr.Smith!Moriarty, Cypher!Anderson, Mouse!Molly, Sherlock being emotionally oblivious, Mycroft being meddlesome, John being very unassuming and having absolutely no sense that he could be remotely important to the bigger picture, and Sherlock being just as much an active part in saving the world as John is…but also falling in love, amidst a cloud of intense denial.)
Re: A self-indulgent, in-depth description of the Johnlock/Matrix fusion I’ve always pined for.
(Anonymous) 2021-10-17 09:28 am (UTC)(link)In general, that sounds like it could have been an epic fic.
Re: A self-indulgent, in-depth description of the Johnlock/Matrix fusion I’ve always pined for.
(Anonymous) 2021-10-17 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)Re: A self-indulgent, in-depth description of the Johnlock/Matrix fusion I’ve always pined for.
(Anonymous) 2021-10-17 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)