Fic: 221B - Words don't come easy

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Title: Words don't come easy
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: Keepsake


Today's prompt: row

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Words don't come easy


For someone who usually has so many words - big words, complicated words, unusual words, posh words, arrogant words, boastful words - Sherlock has surprisingly few words in times when he really needs them. In fact in situations like these, he usually only has one: John.

He’s usually at a loss for words when he wants to say things like ‘I’m sorry’ or ‘I am afraid’ or ‘I was wrong’ because he never learned how to say those things. No one ever showed him. In his family one wasn’t sorry. Or afraid. And certainly not wrong.

But he is. He was sorry when they started fighting over the concept of marriage (although he didn’t understand why John was so adamant, it wasn’t like he was going to marry someone anyway). He was afraid when John was lying there in the hospital bed, pale and unmoving. And he was wrong when he thought that John would be better off with someone else (and even more wrong when he tried to say it to John).

I don’t think either of them ever realised it, but despite learning to say ‘I’m sorry’ or ‘I am afraid’ or ‘I was wrong’, ‘John’ is the only word he ever needed. The only one he ever will need.

Somehow, when he says John’s name, everything gets better.



Next 221b: What is love if not this?


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AN:
Today's prompt was 'row' (as in fight).

I'm back safe and sound. :)

Did I use that title before? I feel like I used that title before. Choco, does it ring a bell?







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