Fic Rec: Gone Is My Past

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Title: Gone Is My Past
Author: cyerus
Pairing: Gen
Length: 7,801
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John is an army bomb detection dog who has been turned into a human. Angst. No, really, angst.

Reccer's comments: What the author's summary says. It sounds like crack, but it's really not. It is, however, a picture-perfect illustration of the "hurts so good" adage. John is a bit (okay, more than a bit) OOC here, but I think the author does a good job of staying true to his basic disposition while accounting for the fact that he is (was?), well, a dog. I'm not sure whose POV I loved more, his or Sherlock's.

Excerpt:

He felt half-mute in his awkward human body. No ears or tail to help him speak, only words. And humans lied, with their bodies and words, but how could he tell when he couldn’t smell their deceit? So many times he had been fooled, because he was a dog and dogs had no use for untruths.

It was exhausting, trying to navigate the minefields of the human world. Most days, John felt like he was drowning.