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"Marriage is an archaic institution largely undertaken for financial reasons,” he says disdainfully. “It's not--I want you. You, with your godawful jumpers and a scar stretching across your shoulder, with a hot gun at the small of your back as we run across London during a downpour; you, writing up your inane blog posts-”
“Sherlock,” John warns.
“-your brilliant blog posts,” Sherlock amends seamlessly, “in your chair, in our home; you, in the bed that we share. You are essential to me, you must see that, you are my heart, the best of me and the worst are all wrapped up in who I am with you. And so you see, marriage is not sufficient--I want everything you are and simultaneously to let it all alone, so that I cannot taint it--but it’s… something.”
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Sherlock scoffs, weakly. "How can it not matter?"
"It does, some," John acknowledges. "It's our story and it forged us in fire, and so it matters because it's us. It's our nightmares and our fears and our shame and our hurt, and we wouldn't be the same without everything that has happened to us. But it doesn't matter because even after everything I love you and you love me. And that's just as real and true, and it will last far, far longer than the rest of the story."
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A day that is Not Good, and a better tomorrow. Can be read as a continuation of of silver scars and golden sunlight.
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of silver scars and golden sunlight by thosewhowant for ConsultingPurplePants
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
11 May 2016
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John starts to speak and falters. His voice is still calm, steady as steel, but there's a thread of anxiety running through it now. "Sherlock - when I ran my fingers through your hair - was that a scar, along your hairline?"
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The plastic bag of white powder is an event horizon. Every night he dances around it to the tune of the waltz he wrote for John, and some night Sherlock will tire of dancing and slam the giant Self Destruct button that beckons like an ember in the night.
But for tonight he sets the Persian slipper down on the mantel reverently and pours himself another coffee, middle of the night be damned. He stands at the window and imagines that through the smog he can see Venus, Cygnus, Andromeda. That maybe, just maybe, John is doing the same.
The idea that John may be in the Southern Hemisphere, looking at a different sky, hurts so much that he thinks it may kill him.
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After the inevitable confrontation with Moriarty, John leaves.
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She had once thought that for each action there was an equal and opposite reaction. That had to apply here as well. For every bad thing she does, something good happens elsewhere. The worse her action, the greater the good.
It balances out. In a way, she is facilitating greatness.
That's what she told herself, anyway.
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Mary as Moran, the backstory.
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“I had,” he said, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.”
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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17 Sep 2016
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History, Repeating Itself by gyzym
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes (2009)
07 Apr 2011
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John Watson is a med student, a war veteran, and, by and large, a fairly sensible person. He had every chance to run.
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11 Sep 2016
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—but of course, disaster can't be barred. Won't.
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14 Aug 2016
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Naked, Stripped, and Raw by Nikoshinigami
Fandom Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
14 May 2013
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Time passes, John moves on in love and life, but no matter of distance or separation can ever truly make him say goodbye to Sherlock Holmes.
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16 Jul 2016
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Sherlock knows what he needs. He thought he knew how to ask for it. Maybe he too, had been imprecise.
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28 Jun 2016