Fic: 221B - Package deal

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Title: Package deal
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.






Previous 221b: The games people play


Today's prompt: history

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Package deal


When you meet someone they usually have their fair share of experiences, good and bad. Some they like to talk about, others they don’t. Some are interesting and funny to hear, some are hard and painful. The more of these experiences you share with each other the closer you get (usually).

John never talked to his girlfriends about the war or his injury or his nightmares or even his troubled childhood. Which might be one of the reasons none of them ever got close.

He would probably have tried to avoid talking about it with Sherlock too, but Sherlock, although he was remarkably patient and gentle, kept deducing and then asking the right questions until John started talking.

He held him, equally patient and gentle, when he started crying. And if he cried, there with John in the dark, no one will ever know.

They both felt better afterwards. And closer to each other.

John in turn thought that Sherlock had probably deleted all of his unpleasant and painful experiences. But although Sherlock likes to keep his hard-drive clean and tidy, there is a partition for all the important memories from his past, good and bad.

Because optimists see that it’s your past that shapes you into the person you are today. They call it history. Only pessimists call it baggage.



Next 221b: The price to pay


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AN:
Today's prompt was 'history'.

I'm sorry for not posting yesterday. Real life happened.
But you get two stories today instead. :D








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