[network] @jwatson; video [Morning 383] [open/semi-open] [shadownet]

[jumpthegun]

((OOC: The first and third parts of the message is OPEN. The second part is SEMI-CLOSED to anyone with access to the Shadownet - a text only app created by Winter. It works within the Bunker. Please see this post about Shadownet distribution.

John's death price is that he can't interact with anyone. He won't see/hear messages, so he won't be responding to anything.))

Part 1 - OTA
[John wakes with a start inside his body bag. There's a momentary sense of absolute panic as he claws his way out of it, and gets off the slab he's been lying on. It's a moment to get his bearings and realize that he's in the hospital morgue. That's... not as bad as it could be. And he's fairly certain all of his memories are intact. At least one of the most important ones. John goes for his tablet first.

It doesn't even occur to him that Mary's been silent since he woke up. He can occasionally see her standing off to one side, but other than that, he's focused on the present, not the past. John double-checks the network, but there don't appear to be any new posts. Good. That means he's probably woken up the morning after being killed. As far as inconvenience goes, that's a minor one.]

Everyone, this is Dr. John Watson. Please listen closely. Rhys is in severe danger. His last known location was Building 317 on Dr. House's map. Please, if you're anywhere near there, go and check on him. He was injured during a fight a few days ago and Mr. Beckett attempted to kill him last night. I tried to stop him, but was killed in the fight. I don't know if Beckett succeeded. If Rhys is dead, Beckett may be a danger to others, particularly Enoch. Please watch out for him and please someone check on Rhys and Enoch, physically, if you're able to do so.

[He sends that out and waits for replies. And waits. John gathers his things and leaves the morgue, heading upstairs. When there still isn't a reply, he decides that maybe everyone has... somehow headed to the bunker.

'Or there's something wrong with the network,' Mary suggests. It's the first time she's spoken since John had woken up, and he glances over at her with a furrowed brow before switching on the Shadownet.]

Part 2 (half an hour later) - Shadownet Access Only
Hello? Is anyone there? This is John. There's been a serious incident. Beckett attacked Rhys last night. I died while trying to defend him. Rhys may still be alive and Enoch may be in danger. Please, could someone respond?

[Another half hour goes by as John begins walking. And then another. It's two hours later before he switches over to the regular network again. Mary's close to him now, fingers laced with his free hand.]

Part 3 - OTA
Please, I don't know what's going on, but this is Dr. John Watson. I'm heading toward Residential Zone 3. If anyone can see this message, please respond. [He looks to the side as Mary speaks up, the woman only in his own mind.

'John, I don't know there's anyone there.'

But they have to be there. The whole bloody town can't disappear overnight.

'Why not?' Mary asks.

It's a simple question, but it's absolutely chilling.]

Sherlock? Please, answer me. Alfie? Royce? Bucky? England? Stephen? Tess? Kunsel?

Anyone?

Comments

[jumpthegun]

Yeah, it was the death price. What happened was apparently had out on the obituaries while I couldn't see it. [He sighs.] Beckett's agreed to ask Al to put his name in the Survival Guide as a dangerous person, but there's not much else to do about it with Rhys back alive and Enoch saying he's gonna stay with Beckett.

I just want him kept away from critically wounded patients where possible. I don't need a repeat of his idea of a mercy kill.

[deus_ex_phs]

So nothing else needs to be clarified?

[He'd read what the others had said about what happened, but other people's versions don't always align with how someone else might have seen the facts.]

Rhys did ask.

[Kunsel's voice and expression are carefully neutral. He has his own opinions about mercy kills, but he wants to hear John's right now.]</small.

[jumpthegun]

And if you were in agony, but recovering, and asked that I end your life and risk you not coming back, I would have first told you no, then stopped anyone else trying to do it. A patient has the right to refuse medical treatment, but I really don't think Rhys was in full possession of the facts or his faculties to make a real decision. He just wanted the pain to stop. Beckett should have recognized there were other ways about that. I could have upped Rhys' medication as a starting point. Neither of them brought this to me.

They just waited until it was Beckett's watch and made an emotional judgement, not a medical one.

[deus_ex_phs]

Was he? Recovering? And had you told him this?

[jumpthegun]

Yes, he was. And yes, I did. People don't always listen to their doctors.

[deus_ex_phs]

[John's answer loosens something knotted in Kunsel's shoulders. The tension's still there, because not all of it's from John's side of things, but it's maybe a little bit less.]

Heh. Army doctor, right?

[He probably doesn't need to elaborate what he means. It's got to be a constant of the universe that soldiers make terrible patients. John's surely had plenty of experience with people not listening.

The minimal amusement fades away then.]

I'm going to talk to Beckett.

[jumpthegun]

[Army doctor, indeed. Doctor doctor, as well. Sherlock Holmes is the worst patient he's had, honestly.]

Good luck, Kunsel.

[deus_ex_phs]

Thanks. You too, John.

[He has a feeling John needs it, too. And since that's as good a place as any to hang up, and they both have things to do right now, Kunsel ends the connection there.]