I.O.U a fall

Chapter 27

"Doctor what the fuck is going on?" John half shouted at the Doctor as the crack in the sky became bigger, John looked over to the Doctor who was staring at the crack and wondering what was going on to. The Doctor rushed over to John once again and stared into his eyes, they were still glowing orange.

"John, listen to me when you were in the TARDIS with the other Doctor what did you do? what happened? did you look at anything .....well glowing?" The Doctor question John intensely like the fate of the world depended on it and it did at this moment in time. John remembered his time in the TARDIS and with out warning his eyes glowed even more and the energy from his eyes started to pour out. The Doctor shook John "What have you done?"

"I looked in the TARDIS and the TARDIS looked into me." John said moving away from The Doctor.

"You looked into the time vortex, John, nobody is supposed to see that!" The Doctor exclaimed, the white light coming from the huge crack in the sky came towards John and The Doctor but John lifts up his hand and stops it, reversing it back into the crack, The Doctor looks on in surprise.

"I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take words..." John lifts his hand and takes the words from a sign that says Bad Wolf "... I scatter them, in time and space." the words from the sign float off away from them. " A message, to lead myself here."

"John, you've got to stop this, you've got to stop this now! You've the entire vortex running through you're head, you're gonna burn!" The Doctor shouts to John.

" I want Sherlock and you safe, my Sherlock. Protected from the false God" John says looking at Sherlock's body, then at The Doctor and last at the crack in the sky. "You. are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence, and I divide them." John lifts his hand again, the crack in the sky disappears in an explosion of golden dust. "Everything must come to dust. All things, everything dies. The time war ends." John's eyes light up, and the sky explodes with a flash of golden dusk.

"John, you've done it, now stop." The doctor says as he  tries to take hold of John. John stares straight ahead. "Just let go." The Doctors says whispering.

"How can I let go of this? I bring life." John shouts looking at Sherlock who suddenly starts breathing again and opens his eyes.

"But this is wrong! You can't control life and death!" The Doctor shouts looking at Sherlock who is laying down breathing heavily.

"But I can. The sun and the moon, the day and the night...but why does it hurt?"John grabbed his head in pain. "MY head .....is killing me"

"Do you know what's happening?" The Doctor asked moving to hold John.

"yeah"  John whispered while tears fell down his cheek.

"There's never been a human to look in the time vortex before now. And you know why." The Doctor took hold of Johns face and looked into his eyes the orange glow was still there.

"Because there can't be. I want to say." John said looking away from The Doctor fearing what was about to happen, he glanced at Sherlock for one last time.

"Look at me. John, look at me!" The Doctor said his a clam tone he too didn't want this happen but it had or John will burn.

"I was gonna be with Sherlock. Forever." John shouted capturing Sherlock's attention across the roof top but Sherlock was too weak to move.

"I know" The Doctor said looking at John.

"Rest of my life. Traveling. In 221b. The Doctor and The Detective. Oh, my, I can't go back. Don't make me go back. Doctor, please! Please don't make me go back. John said tears falling from both eyes.

"John. Oh, John Watson.  I am so sorry. But you and Sherlock had the best of times. The best. Goodbye." The doctor held John tightly.

"No! No!  Please!  No!" The doctor lay John against him while Sherlock came running over.

"Help me!" The Doctor shouted at Sherlock as he collapsed by the side of John, they picked John up and moved him to 221b and lay him in his bed. The Doctor and Sherlock were both sitting in Sherlock's living room.

"What happened here, Doctor? I was on the rooftop with John then I blacked out, what happened to John?" Sherlock asked his voice was shaken. The Doctor sighed:

"John looked into the time vortex, he saw everything that was and will ever be just to bring you back to life but all that knowledge and power, it was killing him." The Doctor told Sherlock was started to cry.

"But he'll get better now?" Sherlock asked The Doctor looking at John's room.

"I had to wipe his mind completely. Every trace of me or the TARDIS or yours and his death. Anything you did together, everywhere we went. Had to go." Sherlock burst our crying at this.

"All those wonderful things he did." Sherlock said he couldn't believe John will not remember that Sherlock told him that he loved him all of it was gone.

"I know. But that version of John is dead. 'cause if he remembers, just for a second, he'll burn up. You can never tell her. You can't mention me or what happened today, any of it. For the rest of his life. The Doctor started to get tears in his eyes but he fought them back.

"But the whole world's talking about it. There was a great big crack in the sky." Sherlock exclaimed.

"It'll just be a story. One of those John Watson stories, where he missed it all again." said The Doctor.

"But we were going to be together again after 2 years!" Sherlock said with anger.

" I just want you to know there are people out there safe in the sky because of him. And there are people living in the light and singing songs of John Watson many miles away for what he did today. They will never forget him. While he can never remember. But for one moment, one shining moment, he was the most important man in the whole wide world." The Doctor said with great passion and respect for John.

"He still is. He is my John Watson and I love him" Sherlock said between sobs.

"Then maybe you should tell him that once in awhile" The Doctor said quietly. Sherlock nodded realising how much of an idiot he has been.

"Oh, Doctor. What about you now? Who've you got? I man, all those friends of Yours." Sherlock asked careful he knew that The Doctor always travelled with someone.

"They've all got someone else. Still that's fine. I'm fine. " The Doctor told Sherlock but he didn't male eye contact this time.

"I'll watch out for you." Sherlock said quietly.

"You can never tell him!" The Doctor told Sherlock with a stern tone.

"No. no. But every night, Doctor. When it gets dark, and the stars come out, I'll look up on his behalf. I'll look up at the sky, And think of you and what John did today" Sherlock said looking at the Doctor.

"Thank you" said The Doctor quietly and left 221b baker street.