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ancientreaderTitle: Sheep Go to Heaven
Author: Mad_Maudlin
Pairing: none (but not incompatible with John/Sherlock)
Length: 1240 words
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Rating: mature/R
Warnings: graphic (but brief) depictions of violence
Author's Summary: "Sherlock shouldn't have any trouble killing someone. He is, after all, a sociopath."
Reccer's Comments: That good old trope, Sherlock as (not) a sociopath. It's been done to death, I suppose, in the past five and a half years, but this, posted in late 2010, was one of the earliest variations on the theme and I'm still impressed by the characterizations of both Sherlock and John. (We could argue for hours over whether the picture of Sherlock here is jossed by the climax of HLV, and I would be delighted to have that conversation if anyone wants!)
To say much more would spoil the plot, but I suggest looking closely at the ending. I'm not sure that it's not ambiguous, and if that's cloudily worded, that's because I'm, oh, let's say 98% sure that everything is as it seems. You?
Excerpt:
Read on the AO3.
Author: Mad_Maudlin
Pairing: none (but not incompatible with John/Sherlock)
Length: 1240 words
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Rating: mature/R
Warnings: graphic (but brief) depictions of violence
Author's Summary: "Sherlock shouldn't have any trouble killing someone. He is, after all, a sociopath."
Reccer's Comments: That good old trope, Sherlock as (not) a sociopath. It's been done to death, I suppose, in the past five and a half years, but this, posted in late 2010, was one of the earliest variations on the theme and I'm still impressed by the characterizations of both Sherlock and John. (We could argue for hours over whether the picture of Sherlock here is jossed by the climax of HLV, and I would be delighted to have that conversation if anyone wants!)
To say much more would spoil the plot, but I suggest looking closely at the ending. I'm not sure that it's not ambiguous, and if that's cloudily worded, that's because I'm, oh, let's say 98% sure that everything is as it seems. You?
Excerpt:
"You are tiresome," Sherlock tells [the murderer he has at gunpoint].
Stockton grins. Blood from his split lip runs down his face. "Then kill me."
Sherlock shifts again. The angle of his arm is rather uncomfortable. "To kill everyone who irritated me would needlessly complicate my social life."
Read on the AO3.
