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celialowenthal:

John, you’re an angel. It’s going to take you a while to adjust to losing the power of flight.

Sherlock Holmes is an angel, and I think, one day, if we’re very, very lucky, he might even be human.

Oh, I may be on the side of the angels, but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.

So about fifty billion (more like six actually but it felt like a horde) different people requested people with wings and at first I was like ‘okay I can do that’ and then I was like ‘wait angels’ and then I was like ‘Sherlock’s not an angel he’s got to be human’ and then I was like ‘but wings he needs wings????’ and then I was like ‘no wait what did Moffat say that Sherlock was a man who aspired to be a god so maybe Sherlock built himself a pair of wings because being human simply wasn’t enough’ and then I was like ‘but wait WAIT John wait what John and Moriarty how does this even work WAIT JOHN and the and John’s lost a wing in Afghanistan and and and and wings aren’t actually all that uncommon there’re enough of them around and generally angels tend to be outwardly good people so there’s lots of angels who are doctors and policemen and such but few of them can fly and John was an exception in that he could fly EXCEPT HE CAN’T ANYMORE but walking with Sherlock Holmes, who’s at once human and something worse and something better, makes up for the loss of flight and oh my god and wait is Moriarty Lucifer or something I don’t even know and wait wait wait AND SHERLOCK WITH THE WINGS HIS FALL FROM GRACE IS LIKE AN ICARUS THING OH MY GOD’

and then the next thing I knew it was the middle of the night and there was an orphaned AU that needed an author