Strange Detective

Game on!

Sherlock pushed away from the bed after a while and went to pull on some fresh clothes, John left for him to have some privacy and so he could change into some of his own fresh clothes.

Once Sherlock was changed he went into the living room and threw himself onto the sofa, impressively graceful. Sherlock decided to visit his mind palace as he waited for John to return.

He was revisiting the different elements of the periodic table and their reactions to different temperatures when he was snapped back to reality by John lifting his feet out of the way so he could sit down and then placing his feet back in his lap.

Sherlock looked up at John in confusion before planting his head back down into the sofa and pushing a pillow into his face. He felt the pillow guided away from his face with gentle hands and the pillow was instead placed under his head.

Sherlock looked up at John who was smiling at him, still holding his head from where he had laid it on the pillow.

"Don't wanna hurt that perfect face of yours" John teased, tapping him on the nose before leaning back into his chair and sipping at his tea, leaving Sherlock blushing and flustered.

Sherlock tried to think of words but he was speechless, his mouth opening and shutting like a goldfish. 

John chuckled when he looked back over at Sherlock, still unable to link words together, his skin still tinged pink.

"Rendered you speechless have I?" John chuckled, poking at Sherlocks stomach and making Sherlock squirm.

John gently tickled at Sherlocks bare foot and he began to laugh, trying to fend John off by smacking him with the pillow that had been under his head.

John tickled his sides after that and Sherlock screamed in protest, unable to stop the giggles that escaped his mouth as John attacked him. Sherlock resorted to drastic measures and let his soul escape his body leaving his body lifeless and unmoving.

John looked shocked at the sudden change and went quickly over to check Sherlocks pulse, still breathing, heart still beating, perfectly healthy. He tapped at Sherlocks cheek to get a response out of him but his body remained lifeless.

"Sherlock, quit it now, what are you doing?" John begged, shaking Sherlocks shoulders.

Sherlock went back to his body after thinking John had suffered enough and his body was back to life, looking up at John with a mischievous grin.

"What the heck did you just do?" John asked, shock evident in his voice.

"Entered my astral form, kind of like my spirit separating from my body, you should try it sometime" Sherlock explained with a small chuckle and then sitting up quickly and taking his tea before sipping it.

"What?" John asked in disbelief.

"Oh John" Sherlock sighed, setting his cup down and standing up and indicating John do the same. John stood up in front of Sherlock looking confused. "Right so just don't panic and don't go into shock, got that?" Sherlock asked and received a weary nod.

"Okay ready, three two one" Sherlock pushed his palm suddenly against Johns chest, pulling Johns hand against his own. John looked on in confusion as he felt himself full backwards but then he could see his falling body just in front of him and he was floating above the ground.

John looked around him and then at Sherlock who was still pushing at his body as he had been before, time had stopped as he was like this but then Sherlock was bringing his body back up and now he was back in his body standing in front of Sherlock in disbelief.

"Same reaction I had" Sherlock said with a smile as he went to sit down again on the sofa and drinking at his tea as if nothing unusual had happened, John stared at him and then sat back down next to Sherlock who was perfectly at ease but with a slight grin on the corner of his lips.

"What the heck Sherlock, that was just-- was just-" John stuttered in confusion, unable to form a understandable sentence.

Sherlock just laughed again, "astral form John, I told you" The detective explained simply.

"Is today a game of who can shock the other senseless?" John asked, a smile growing at his lips as Sherlock also smiled.

"Do you want it to be that?" Sherlock asked mischievously.

"Game on!" John said excitedly, before standing suddenly and taking their cups out to the sink.

Sherlock looked on suddenly nervous, what's more shocking than astral form for the first time? This was something he was certain he should be able to win.