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The Box by twistedthicket1 (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
13 Jul 2014
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Summary
John Watson knows the name of this condition. His thought processes. His patterns. He knows that it's almost cliché, to come home from a physical war only to engage in an invisible one. It's expected, although perhaps not in this extreme, up at an absurd hour with a gun pressed to his temple, a bottle of sleeping pills on his night-stand if he chickens out. Wants to do things in a slower way.
He knows it, yet he does not utter it aloud. For like uttering a demon's name in the dark, it might spread wings. Come alive and breathe smoke into his ear. He knows to name something is to give it power, and like a child he hides from it, denies it even as his finger thumbs the safety. It comes free with an audible click.
John Watson breathes.
And most of all, John Watson lies.
Series
- Part 10 of Hum like a Honey Bee