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Sherlock Holmes (reasonbackward) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2010-09-07 00:57:00

Entry tags:

!@event, !closed, john watson, sherlock holmes

WHO: genderswapped!Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
WHAT: Anatomy just doesn't change in the blink of an eye.
WHERE: Sherlock & John's apartment
WHEN: Just past the witching hour, September 7th
RATING: PG
STATUS: In Progress

It was an interesting development, just as he had told John, and as Sherlock stood in the kitchen, brewing tea and turning his eyes over the markedly different bone structure in his hands and arms, he couldn't help but smile at the baffling puzzle that laid before him. One did not just alter genders in the blink of an eye. The procedure to do so was expensive, time consuming, and hell on both the body and the mind, and yet, here he was as true as the day was long fully female in every capacity (he'd checked). Some people would panic, dissolve into frantic confusion over a situation that made no logical sense, but Sherlock merely saw it as a challenge, something to break up the monotony that had settled over him and give him the ability to deny Moriarty the pleasure of him admitting defeat in the face of such tedium.

"John!" Sherlock called, well assured that his minute was more than up only thinking after the fact that his voice would give away the game long before he'd intended: different shape, different vocal chords, different voice. But no matter. John was likely to dismiss the oddity in pitch as being the product of his sleep addled mind. Or perhaps assume that his flatmate had brought home a mysterious woman in the middle of the night to keep him company. No. No, John was more likely to guess the true reason before leaping to the last.

Pouring two cups of tea, Sherlock turned, a ghost of a smile on his features as he waited for John to emerge from his bedroom and take in the puzzle before him. His reaction would be priceless.

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reasonbackward
2010-09-07 07:15 am UTC (link)

Sherlock's smile only deepened at John's pronouncement, sliding the cup towards his friend and flatmate as he slipped into a chair with his own cup. Smirking at his friend, Sherlock took a long sip before setting it down in front of himself to be forgotten, "Finally! Something interesting," He said, his voice making his relief all too obvious. He'd been stagnating rather severely the last few days, and he looked utterly revived...even if it was as a woman. "It should be impossible," Sherlock said, leaning across the table towards John. "Impossible for someone to change so substantially in the blink of an eye in a way that is not the product of some subtle disguise or well executed deception. But look at me, John! Look at me! Have you ever seen a more thorough transformation?"

There had to be something, some way that this was achieved. A power like that had to be extraordinary. But there was more to it than that, more that Sherlock needed to understand. "How and more importantly, why? That really is the question that this begs, isn't it?" Sherlock asked, looking all too eager to discuss this circumstance despite John's current state. "Why? What's the purpose? There has to be an end game in altering someone who, but what could it possibly be?"