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The face staring back at him was hard, cold, and familiar in the most painful ways.
His lungs constricted leaving him feeling breathless at the sight and his vision frayed at the edges—either from the sudden lack of oxygen or tears, he didn’t know—and his hands trembled like he’d touched a live wire.
He spent his remaining breath on a single word that felt more like a choke.
“John.”
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The one where John didn't meet Mary in the years following the Riechenbach Fall, and instead finds himself tangled in a web of criminality, hard choices, and bad decisions. And Sherlock now has to save the man who has always been the one doing the saving.