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Prompting Part XXXV

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John confesses to killing Jeff Hope. Mary, who had an idealized image of John as a nice doctor who sometimes solves crimes with his best friend, is slightly disappointed.

"Let me get this straight...you're telling me, that you gave me hell over hospitalizing Sherlock in order to protect you, my husband...despite the fact that you murdered a cabbie in order to save Sherlock...and you'd only just MET Sherlock that day."
Mary stared at her husband, and he at least had the decency to look a bit guilty.

John cleared his throat, uncrossing his legs and crossing them the other way.

"Yes, I...hm. It, ah, it had slipped my mind."

"Lovely," she muttered.

Letting out a huff of irritation, Mary struggled to her feet - waving John away when he leaped up to help her - and made her way into the kitchen.

"Mary?" John's voice followed her, "Are...are you all right?"

"Oh yeah," she replied with fake cheer, pausing at the sink with a hand pressed to her rounded stomach. "Perfectly fine. Not at all upset about how disproportionately pissed off my husband got with me about the Magnussen deal."

She heard his deep sigh, the creak of relief his chair gave as his weight left it, and then his footsteps approaching the kitchen.

"Mary...I really didn't remember it until recently. I didn't think it would be that big of a deal, so I hadn't brought it up... You were an assassin and all, I thought you would understand..."

"You!" she whirled to point at him, and John stopped up short in the kitchen doorway, "You were supposed to be the good one! The sane one! You're a DOCTOR for Christ's sake! At least when I shot people I was acting as an assassin! And there isn't one kill - not ONE - that I've 'forgotten' about since I pulled the trigger."

"Mary..." he tried again, inching a few steps closer, hands raised in a sign of peace.

"You're supposed to keep me grounded," she whispered, allowing her hand to fall back to her side. "Make sure I don't do anything stupid or illegal. Be my moral compass. I...I was leaving that life...after Magnussen, I wasn't going to deal with that sort of thing again. I was going to spend my life trying to be worthy of John Watson, the fatherly doctor who wouldn't dream of hurting anyone. Not John Watson, slayer of cabbies..."

"ONCE, Mary. I killed once, to protect Sherlock. And I've never done so again."

"You never got caught."

"....no."

She sighed, grabbing the kettle from the stove to fill with water in a distinctly British habit that she'd picked up - making tea to calm her nerves.

"You could have told me, you know. Even if I wasn't...well, an assassin. I would have understood."

"I'm sorry, Mary," he said softly. After a few seconds of silence, which she spent placing the full kettle on the stove and turning up the heat, he took a step closer. "I suppose I'm sleeping on the couch?"

"For tonight at least. Not because you killed someone, mind you, because I don't have a problem with you or Sherlock shooting someone who threatens your lives or the life of one of our friends, but because you ignored me for months after what I did, and I didn't say anything then because I thought you had a spotless record and thus a very good reason to be that pissed off at me."

"Fair enough," John conceded with a half smile.

Mary turned to the cabinets, retrieving a pair of mugs.

"So is there anything else I should know about you? Back door drug-dealings? Kidnaping rings? Automobile theft?"

"I lied about what happened to that pink jumper of yours."

"The one you said got lost while moving?"

"Sherlock lit it on fire."

"How am I NOT surprised," she mumbled, shaking her head.

A small smile formed on her lips as she retrieved tea bags from the cabinet. As she reached up to close the cabinet again, she felt John's arms slip around her middle, his lips pressing against the nape of her neck.

"I truly am sorry, Mary. I'll do my best to be that perfect Doctor you thought you married."

She turned in his arms, pressing her forehead to his.

"Don't be preposterous. You ARE perfect."

He smiled, cupping her face in his hands and pressing a kiss to her lips.

"Only the best for you, Mrs. Watson."

OP here, thank you so much for filling this !

There's so many little things that I like : the fact that she's making him sleep on the couch for one night because he didn't speak to her for months. That's what I call proportional retribution. John Watson, slayer of cabbies. Sherlock stealing her stuff. Means she's part of the family now.

Thank you again.

Your Mary is perfect. <3

"You're supposed to keep me grounded," she whispered, allowing her hand to fall back to her side. "Make sure I don't do anything stupid or illegal. Be my moral compass. I...I was leaving that life...after Magnussen, I wasn't going to deal with that sort of thing again. I was going to spend my life trying to be worthy of John Watson, the fatherly doctor who wouldn't dream of hurting anyone. Not John Watson, slayer of cabbies..."

This fic is both cute and painful.

this is beautiful as are you.

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