Fic: 221B - I believe in Sherlock Holmes
Title: I believe in Sherlock Holmes
Words: a 221B has 221 words and ends with a b-word
Rating: Pg-13
Pairings : Sherlock/John
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: ‘365 days of 221Bs’ challenge: a prompt a day, given by atlinmerrick. Day 326.
Previous 221b: Need-to-know
Today's prompt: belief
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I believe in Sherlock Holmes
Greg clearly remembers one of the first conversations he ever had with Sherlock after he just showed up at a crime scene on a rainy October day. He remembers his confusion and his amazement at that pale, skinny boy rattling off things about the victim and the crime scene he really, really shouldn’t be able to know.
“Who the hell are you? How can you know that?”
The boy just looked at him, his eyes huge in his lathy face, body full of restless energy.
“How can you not?”
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As he looks down on him now, despite clearly grown up since then, he can see the same boy shining through, but all the restless energy is gone. He is curled up on the sofa, sleeping.
Greg knows that Sherlock is going to be furious; with him for mixing the sleeping pills in his drink and with himself for not noticing, for needing fluids and sleep when his husband is missing.
He very gently pulls a blanket over Sherlock’s body and whispers, “We will find him. You will find him.”
He repeats those words when Sherlock wakes up and it earns him a wounded look.
“How can you know that?”
He smiles softly.
“How can you not?”
Of course Sherlock finds John, alive and unbroken despite being bloody, bruised and battered.
Next 221b: A magic touch
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AN:
The prompt was 'belief'.
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