Fic: 221B - Ghost of the past
Title: Ghost of the past
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 214.
Previous 221b: Shaken, not stirred
Today's prompt: ghost
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Ghost of the past
Sherlock is watching John. John doesn’t notice. He is reading the paper and paying much more attention to that than to Sherlock, who is stretched out on the sofa in nothing more than his dressing gown after all.
John suddenly makes a startled sound and turns to Sherlock, showing him an ad in the paper.
“Look. It’s an old... buddy of mine. Seems to be a model now.”
You used to date him. You broke it off. Are you regretting that now?
John goes back to reading and Sherlock tries to chase those thoughts away by updating his blog. An hour passes.
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“Come to bed with me?”
John is a warm presence against his back. His breath ghosts over Sherlock’s neck. He hasn’t asked with that undertone in a while.
“I... will you be thinking about him?”
The warm presence is gone so fast it seems as if someone yanked John away.
“What?”
“You saw an old lover of yours, a very attractive one and now you’re asking me to bed. What am I supposed to think?”
“I also saw you, stretched out in your dressing gown, tactically showing a lot of skin. Don’t you know by now that you’re the only one I see?”
“Sometimes I doubt.”
“Don’t.”
Sherlock exhales and leans forward until his head rests against John’s belly.
Next 221b: I worry about him constantly
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AN:
The prompt was 'ghost'.
I could not let the opportunity pass to add the part where John's breath ghosts over Sherlock’s neck. ;)
I remember reading an article on Sherlock fanfics somewhere and the author was complaining about the fact that people use words in the wrong way. That someone said 'ghost' is not a verb.
In my opinion, language evolves constantly. People shape it by using words in new contexts. And I really like the image of fingers or breath ghosting over skin. So hell yeah, it's a verb!
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