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Now…you all want pain? I can give you pain.

Remember that moment in TLD where a dazed Sherlock stands in the middle of a street and has his anyone-anyone-anyone epiphany? 

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There are honking cars and a man asks, “Are you drunk?”

This always seemed strange to me. Because the only person where we get these drunk/alcohol problem/etc. references is usually John. So, what if this isn’t about Sherlock at all? What if it’s about John? 

Sherlock is in a coma, and reality is bleeding through. So maybe John couldn’t bear to sit next to Sherlock’s hospital bed for…what hours, days, weeks (we don’t even know how long this has been going on). So, John went out and got drunk to drown out the pain. He got really drunk, then returned to the hospital room and some nurse or doctor called him out on it: “Are you drunk? Do you know where you are?” and in his coma Sherlock heard that.

What if the ensuing dialogue between Billy Wiggins and Sherlock is actually something else?

Sherlock isn’t asking Billy Wiggins, “What are you doing here?” This is Sherlock in his own mind asking John, “What are you doing here? You should be at Baker Street.” Although Sherlock bungles it all up and reconnects it in a different way because this is a dream. Or maybe the other doctor or nurse is asking John that. Or maybe Mrs Hudson.

And then, as @monikakrasnorada just pointed out to me, we actually hear John’s voice at min. 26:17. John’s voice says, “Sherlock!” 

So, what if a drunk John actually returned to Sherlock’s hospital room, got scolded for drinking by somebody (nurse, other doctor, whoever), was maybe even told by that other person to go home (Baker Street!), but then just as that argument between John and that other doctor or nurse or whoever played out, John turned around and saw something was off about Sherlock and he shouted, “Sherlock!”

Seeing as this is the moment where the whole episode starts to tilt on its head, and seeing as this happens before Sherlock’s ‘coagulation’ comment later on and also before the ‘beyond viral’ comments, it could easily be that a drunk John, to his utter horror, recognised at that very moment that something could have potentially hit Sherlock’s brain. (Maybe Sherlock’s face was ‘stroking’ or something?) So, John cried out, “Sherlock!” 

Aaaand you know the rest, they start to test what is going on with his brain and talk about ‘coagulation’ and an infection and push Sherlock in the MRI machine and so on and so forth.

If you need any more angst. There’s loads more where that came from. I can assure you, I can give you a top off any time.:) My pleasure…

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