Fic: 221B - Time Doesn't Always Heal

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Title: Time Doesn't Always Heal
Words: 221
Rating: PG-13
Pairings : Sherlock/John
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: Not mine.

Summary: ‘365 days of 221Bs’ challenge: a prompt a day, given by atlinmerrick.





Previous 221b: The Gift


Today's prompt: healing

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Time Doesn't Always Heal

There are wounds you don’t see.

Wounds caused by not being accepted by your parents or by other children, by being on your own for all your adult life, by harsh remarks, by being rejected over and over again, by the fear of staying alone forever.

Most people have one or two of them. Sherlock had them all.

Some of the smaller wounds started to heal when he met Mrs Hudson and some when he became sort of friends with Lestrade.

But the deep ones, the life-threatening ones that never stopped bleeding, no one could heal. Until a man called John came along.

He healed those wounds one after the other, some just by being there, others by being his friend and still others by becoming his lover.

The biggest, deepest wound he healed when he dropped to his knees with a ring in his sweaty palm and Sherlock realised that he actually meant it when he said that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with him.

There were going to be new wounds, minor ones cast by others and the more serious ones cast by one another. But right now the two men who were staring at each other in delighted amazement, one kneeling, one standing, hearts beating rapidly, were both healed and whole – and completely breathless.



Next 221b: Say Cheese!


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AN:
Today's prompt was 'healing'.

Also, I hate titles... *sobs*











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