WW 2021 -- July 1: Flowing Water

Title: Flowing Water

Author: Pompey

Universe: ACD but AU

Rating: PG

Warnings: AU, supernatural, suicidal ideation (Wow, we’re starting off this year with some dark!)

Word count: 150

Summary: Watson has an existential crisis and for good reason.

Prompt: July 1 – picture prompt bridges.

Watson stood alone, watching the dark waves lap the bridge supports beneath him. Flowing water was the only thing that could make him feel somewhat human now. Holmes tried his best, of course, but his bailiwick was the objective, the concrete, the scientific. He had no experience with the supernatural.

Guilt, too, hindered Holmes’s help. If he’d never asked Watson to come along . . . if he’d taken the farmers’ warnings seriously . . . if Watson had been armed with a stake rather than bullets when attacked . . .

Watson didn’t blame Holmes for his vampiric condition, hellish though it was. He only hoped Holmes would not deduce certain things and interfere.

Watson had heard flowing water could block a vampire’s powers. Though it was not among the usual methods of killing the Undead, perhaps it also had the ability to end this miserable Un-life he lived.

 

Author’s Note: honestly, the bridge pictures reminded me of the THAMES opening that would always play before the opening credits of “Count Duckula” and my brain just went from there. See? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ZVWMPuZ2c