Fic: 221B - Blinded by love

[anarion]

Title: Blinded by love
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: Intermezzo


Today's prompt: public transit

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Blinded by love


You probably think Sherlock hates the tube because he almost always seems to take a cab.

It’s more a question of urgency. When he needs to be somewhere, he takes a cab. Usually the quickest way from A to B.

But when there is nothing to do and he still needs to get out, needs to move, they sometimes take the tube or a bus and just drive around. Sherlock loves to deduce all the different people they see. He will lean over and whisper all his deductions into John’s ear.

He learned to whisper only after meeting John. He never saw the need before, but when John looked at him with that gaze, the one that seemed to transport nothing but disappointment and anger because ‘these people didn’t need to hear all their secrets shouted through the whole bus, Sherlock, really.’

So he learned to whisper and when it's late at night and there's nobody on the bus or tube except them he will still lean over and whisper in John’s ear, not deductions this time but things that make all the hair on John’s neck stand up and cause goosebumps all over his arms.

Afterwards they usually end up making love sweet and slow, fingers ghosting over skin like their love for each other is written there in Braille.



Next 221b: It started from scratch


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AN:
Today's prompt was 'public transit'.








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Comments

[chocolamousse.livejournal.com]

things that make all the hair on John’s neck stand up and cause goosebumps all over his arms.
I'm sorry but it's not very clear. Can you specify please? *coughs*

finger ghosting over skin like their love for each other is written there in Braille.
Awww, lovely. But don't you rather mean "fingers" ? Or maybe it's just me! :D

Also, "when it is late at night and [there's?] no one on the bus or tube except them", I think. :-)

[anarion.livejournal.com]

Can you specify please?
Ghost stories. What did you think? :P


Goddammit! Finger is the same in German and it's both singular and plural... Thank you!

[chocolamousse.livejournal.com]

I did think of ghost stories too of course. With Halloween coming up and all. It's late at night and they're alone in this bus or in the tube and it's scaring of course. And then Sherlock makes love to John in order to reasssure him and cheer him up. Of course.

[verityburns.livejournal.com]

Oh, I adore the braille thing - that's absolutely beautiful.

The 'A to B' made me laugh because of your previous 'insert Tab A into Slot B' fic, which has turned out to be an ongoing delight - I'll never assemble furniture again without giggling... thank you!

[mzdany.livejournal.com]

Absolutely seconding the Braille expression, that was beautifully lyrical! I haven't heard of the 221b prompt challenge, but now I definitely want to check out more of your ficlets :)
Oh, btw, I read the previous comment about 'finger'. Are you German, by any chance?

[tracionn.livejournal.com]

This might be my fave of all faves. I think I can't even write a proper feedback as this is just so painfully beautiful I can't...
May be back later if I can again.
The whispering, the he-never-did-it-before-John, the slow love-making, the love-written-in-Braille...my heart, my heart.

[atlinmerrick.livejournal.com]

"fingers ghosting over skin like their love for each other is written there in Braille."

FUCKING BLOODY HELL. God that's beautiful. That's just gorgeous. That's just....*sigh*

[rox712.livejournal.com]

I love the days in which I can't read or comment and then I come back and find a few of these and you make me go through all this emotions. God, this is so sweet! *sigh*

[purrculier1.livejournal.com]

"He learned to whisper only after meeting John. "
For some reason this line just makes my heart ache. Sherlock learning to whisper just because of John's expression turns me to mush.(must be true love. *sighs* really lovely. )

"not deductions this time but things that make all the hair on John’s neck stand up and cause goosebumps all over his arms."
Well, that kind of whispering gave me goosebumps too. (Lucky John)

fingers ghosting over skin like their love for each other is written there in Braille.
Lyrical, and full of emotion. Your branching out into the poetical there and it's so so beautiful.
Shade and Sweetwater this is a lovely thing you wrote.