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This is a fic prompting meme based around the BBC series Sherlock, written by Stephen Moffat & Mark Gattis.
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Prompts from this post can be filled on the Overflow Post
This is a fic prompting meme based around the BBC series Sherlock, written by Stephen Moffat & Mark Gattis.
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Sherlock could try to be the perfect boyfriend, caring and listening, doing things without being asked, but it doesn’t work. He gets distracted, he forgets, and his mind is never wholly on John, apart from sometimes, in bed when they sink together and the world suddenly shrinks, or falls away and all there is is contact and John and John and John.
But the rest of the time there is boredom and there are cases, and there are a million little details of life that are more interesting, more distracting and it is not that he doesn’t think of John, it’s just that there is a part of his brain dedicated to that, but the rest is busy working. Always working.
He tries making breakfast in bed - he gets distracted by the splatter patterns of the oil from the pan as it spits. He tries to buy flowers, but he gets distracted by the possibility of scent borne poisons, or allergic reactions to specific pollen types. He tries to buy milk, but there is a queue and in the queue there is a man from a crime syndicate.
John doesn’t seem to want breakfast in bed or flowers, although the milk is something he does ask about sometimes - with no expectation of actually getting it.
So the only flaw in that plan is Sherlock himself.
He frowns and drops a glass vase onto the carpet to see how much it breaks. Interesting - definitely not the mother then.
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There are five main reasons for the end of a relationship:
1. Lack of commitment (or commitment to another source i.e. work)
2. Infidelity
3. Loss of emotion
4. Unacceptable behaviour on the part of one or both partners (violence, addiction)
5. Better prospects
Under this list (which Sherlock feels covers most variables) he can do something about reasons 1, 2 and 4 and he can do his best to prevent 3 and 5.
*
A woman in Norfolk is arrested for poisoning her husband with her heart tablets. Sherlock goes to investigate and knows within five seconds of seeing the house that the man poisoned himself to have her arrested.
She cries into her son’s shoulder as she tells him she loves her husband.
Sherlock wonders if John would poison him, or just shoot him through the head.
John has never struck him as a poisoner.
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Attention is something that is necessary in a relationship. He knows this from Lestrade, who sighs when he talks about his marriage and gives John a rueful smile.
“Same old story,” he says, “job comes first...”
But John is involved in Sherlock’s job, so that is not a factor here. He dismisses point one from the list.
*
“It was the girl, she was having an affair with the dead man,” Sherlock says, “she wanted him to leave his wife, he refused, she bashed in his head with a microscope. This was barely even worth my time.”
As he leaves, he drops an arm over John’s shoulders, pulling him along too.
No one is going to try to steal John away.
*
“You never did learn to share,” Mycroft mutters down the phone line. “Slavery was abolished in the British empire almost two hundred years ago. He’s not yours.”
“And the British Empire fell a few years ago too, didn’t it?” Sherlock asks.
“You’re missing the point.”
“No,” Sherlock tells him, glaring at the top of Mycroft’s ear. “You are.”
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