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• The Thoughts of Hollow Men by beanfield

  Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (TV)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • F/M, Gen, M/M
  • Complete Work

  8 Oct 2012

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Mary Morstan/John Watson
  • Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
  • Sebastian Moran/Jim Moriarty
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Greg Lestrade
  • John Watson
  • Sebastian Moran
  • Jim Moriarty
  • Harry Watson
  • Sally Donovan
  • Molly Hooper
  • various other characters who have smaller parts so they won't be tagged
  • Angst
  • angst everywhere
  • Psychotropic Drugs
  • Post Reichenbach
  • Ambiguous Relationships
  • Implied or Off-stage Rape/Non-con
  • Violence
  • Implied Torture
  • Sally redeems herself
  • kind of
  • gratuitous literary references
  • Pre-Slash
  • Also kind of
  • Lots of implied relationships or unrequited feels
  • And then God said "Let there be metaphors"
  • Cause of death is probably Death by Figurative Language
  • Prolixity pretentiousness and psuedo-intellectualism oh my!
  • let's make something clear; this is angst
  • there is nothing heart-warming or happy about this
  • if you want something like that i would suggest not reading this
  • it will not be happy nor will it end very happily

  Summary

  There are two bodies on the ground, and Sherlock was once-dead but now isn't, and he can't think anything but johnjohnjohnfindjohnsavejohn but John is not here, even though his name is on the lease, and this is his flat, and his fianceé is on the ground with a snapped neck, and Lestrade looks so very, very tired, and Mycroft is so stoic and unflappable, and Sherlock Holmes is falling apart at the seams.

   

  EDIT: It appears that some are misjudging what, exactly, "angst" means. This is not heart-warming. This is not happy. This is based off of T.S. Eliot's very-not-happy-actually-rather-bleak poem, "The Hollow Men". If you are looking for something happy and heart-warming, something that makes you leave feeling warm and good inside, this is not what you should read and I don't know what I can do for you here.

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Thoughts of Hollow Men

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