sherlockbbc_fic | Prompting Part XXXIV

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Sherlock hated John’s annoying new habit of shutting him out every time something of great emotional import happened. For the most part he couldn’t be bothered to feign sympathy, but for John he could. His lack of faith in him hurt. John trusted Sherlock with his life when they were on a case, trusted him with his body when they were intimate. The fact that John refused to entrust his mind, the most sacred part of himself, to Sherlock, cut him like a knife.

In a fit of pique, he plugged the USB with the counselor’s information into his laptop. John didn’t want to tell him anything? Fine, he would discover it for himself.

There was nothing in Dr. Statham’s history that indicated criminal behavior. The man did not have so much as a speeding violation. Sherlock found his squeaky-clean history disturbing. No one was that virtuous. He decided to go through every piece of paper in the file Mycroft had given him. The key to John’s mysterious past had to be here.

He spent the next two days buried in his laptop, reading through official documents, school transcripts, essays written in uni. God, Mycroft’s men were thorough. It wasn’t until the afternoon of the second day that he began on the therapy notes. He skimmed through them. Most were a mishmash of random observations and half-cocked psychobabble. However, he noticed that for one patient, the notes showed a conscientious, almost painful attention to detail. The patient suffered from an eating disorder and showed all of the classic symptoms. The case was practically textbook. Sherlock frowned. If there was one thing he’d learned from years of observation, it was that no one adhered to textbook definitions. The variations of human behavior were as infinite as they were infuriating. He bookmarked the pages and kept skimming. A few years after the first, he found another patient, this one a recovering drug addict with a similar profile. The ailment was different, but the perfect attention to detail in the patient notes was the same.

He looked around for John. He’d been sitting in his chair only a few moments ago. When he didn’t see him, he called, “John, you should take a look at this.”

There was no answer. John’s jacket was not on the coatrack. He must be out, then. Sherlock shrugged it off and went back to his notes.

OP here. Oh, God, John blaming himself for the deaths of (some of) the other victims is heartbreaking.

Also, Sherlock, go find him, he shouldn't be facing this man alone.

I'm loving this story. I'm dying for more!

I literally just devoured this whole fic in an hour - it is one am and I have a shit ton of homework to do, but I can't because i am an EMOTIONAL WRECK. Your writing and plot twists have had me gasping and tearing up more in this length of time than The Reichenbach Fall, and I just want to say this is an amazing story and I can't wait for more.

I'm so glad you enjoyed my fic!! Sorry to have kept you waiting for the end and I hope your grades didn't suffer too much! I thought I would let you know that I just posted the final chapters.

More! More! Please write more! You can't just leave us hanging like this!

Please more! This is an amazing story! My heart…you should put it up somewhere like on AO3 too if you wanted!

Prompting Part XXXIV

Fill: No Refuge from Memory: 20c

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