Game on!

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"How stupid are you? Using C4 at a time like this!" John shouts. Sherlock eases his head into John's room. The short man is sitting cross legged focused solely on his TV.

"Ambush! Behind you! No, don't do that!" Sherlock stands in the doorway and watches for minutes at the raging John. The round is over and John at last looks up from his game.

"Oh, hello, didn't see you there..." John removed his blue headset and rolled the speaker end between his fingers.

"I heard C4 and got excited." Sherlock smiled.

"Here, why don't you have a go at it?" John reaches out a PS4 controller to his friend.

"I don't play." Sherlock pushes back the controller John was holding out.

"We will do it together. I have a second one."Sherlock remains in the doorway until he finally gives in and sits down next to John. The room was full and the game asks both of them to select a character and weapon. Sherlock glances over at John's character. It was decked out in the most expensive gear in the game.
Nerd.

"Now we wait until enough people join so we can fight." The slots began to fill with funny usernames and birthdays. John's name was the first on the list, 'Hedgehog221' and was highlighted blue. The screen went blank and there suddenly stood six sidekicks including Sherlock.

"John, I can't do this!" Sherlock attempted to make his character move around. John helped Sherlock find the joystick that made the character move and in so doing brushed his hand lightly against Sherlock.

"Is anyone on?" John placed his headset on and tried to make contact. The team was placed in a dim lit prison. There were a few answers over John's headset. As one, the group of men moved from the boiler room to the courtyard where they thought the other team was hiding. John had his advantage as an army doctor, so he knew the general idea of how to stealthily move around the target. Players with sniper guns inched their way forward on high ground. John aimed his gun in the distance. Far away a character collected ammo and reloaded.

"Alright, three, two, one..." A sniper lined the person up in their scope and shot. After that, an instant bloodbath hoarded the open yard. Sherlock tried to kill, but wasn't too successful.

"Behind you!" A man over the headset said to John. But before John could reload and turn around he was being blown up.

"Nice work! Look at what you've done, now we are behind because of your dumbas-" Sherlock ripped the headset from John.

"Look you listen here you lowlife, middle aged, drug addicted filth. Don't you ever mess with him again or you will watch your life become more miserable and sad than it is. Don't hurt my John!!!" Sherlock ran his character next to the man's and had him in a deep chokehold until the party came to attack again.

"And as for YOU..." he spotted the man who killed John across a chain fence. Like a madman, Sherlock's avatar sprinted across the lawn and over the fence. He dodged bullets and  bombs and jumped right on the killer. He brutally took him out by continuously pistol-whipping the man in the face.

"Sherlock, this isn't necessary, people have said far worse." John whispers so no one through the headset could hear.

"There's more!" Sherlock screamed. He ripped the headset off of John again.

"Who else here has hurt MY Jawn?!?!" No one really paid attention because they were off slaughtering the other team. Some guy laughed over his headset.

"Your John! Hehe..." the man laughed from the other team.

"Oh it's on." Sherlock took a long way around the whole battle scene and began to climb up a watch tower where the guy used his sniper gun from. Sherlock inched his character up until he could see his feet.

"How do you know to do that?" John whispered.

"I watched you."

Sherlock's avatar in one clean motion took the man by the legs and threw him over the edge where he fell to his instant death.

"Oops." Sherlock said extremely sarcastically

"But no one messes with me or Jawn!" Sherlock scared off most people with their headsets on.

"Sherlock, you got the last kill!" John screamed.

" I did didn't I." At the end, it showed the final scores of each player. Of course John came out on top with eighteen kills and one death. But Sherlock was second in place.

"We did it!" John hugged Sherlock. For how small he was, he gave Sherlock a big man's hug.

"No one messes with my Jawn." Sherlock grinned.

"Sherlock, it's part of the game." John explained.

"But I still want to protect you even in the virtual world." John turned pink and had absolutely nothing to say.

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