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Sherlock's school reunion has come up, matched with a retirement party for one of his most influential professors. He's reluctant to go, but his good friend John finally talks him into it by agreeing to go with him for support.
“Jesus, Sherlock, it’s just a picture,” John entered the fray with annoyance. Sometimes Sherlock forgot how lucky he was to still have his parents around.
Sherlock’s eyes darted to his with an intense look of betrayal, “You are aware that you’re meant to be in the picture with me?”
John flushed, because he hadn’t actually thought that was the case, “Why in the world would I be in the picture?”
Sherlock sighed heavily, “Because, John, you are my plus one.”
And like a ton of bricks falling from the sky to bury him beneath a pile of understanding, John realised what this entire evening was going to look like to outsiders. To Sherlock’s former classmates...the bullies.
To the rest of the world, John is Sherlock’s date tonight.
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30 Apr 2025
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The Unusual Comma in the Middle of a Completely Ordinary Phrase by Goddess_of_the_Night
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
05 Jan 2017
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Holmes gets called away suddenly to solve a case and writes letters to Watson keeping him informed. Two of the letters contain an unfamiliar comma in the middle of a very familiar phrase. Watson frets over what it’s supposed to mean, if anything at all.
“Holmes stepped closer to me; merely an intimate distance separated us. It was not uncommon for us to disregard personal boundaries, but with my mind currently hung up on an incriminating comma, it was closer than I was comfortable with.
“Tell me what is troubling you,” he requested softly, showing only genuine concern for me.
I looked up slightly, into his eyes, and shook my head again, “I cannot. It’s impertinent, improper, and quite possibly indecent.”
“My dearest Watson, there is nothing you could say to me that I would judge you harshly for. I know the good man that you are; there is no danger here.”
My heart leapt at the endearment and I knew that I could not continue living like this, ever wondering if there was maybe something more between us than friendship.
“On the contrary, I fear that there is incredible danger in what I am about to ask of you.”"
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28 Apr 2025
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When John escorts Sherlock back to Baker Street from the tarmac, he discovers a journal that Sherlock has kept secret...that he has kept secrets in.
"What he sees when he opens it is nothing like what he expected. He expected scrawling notes of observations, or maths equations, or drawings of plants…anything but what he actually finds: confessions.
The first page:
I don’t regret jumping to save you. I regret that you don’t know what I’ve done.John stops breathing until his lungs scream at him. He rereads the message four times before he can bring himself to move on."
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26 Apr 2025
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“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel García Márquez(but what if, sometimes, maybe, you get to have both?)
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29 Sep 2023
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After a horrendous and tedious week of taming politicians, Mycroft is home.
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14 Aug 2023