Prompting Part XXXV

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Fill: The Reason is You, Part 2

[(Anonymous)]

March

“Sherlock! Would you please try to be a little bit more careful?! Not that I don’t enjoy shooting murderers and patching you up, I do, it makes me nostalgic for the old days when I was still Alpha enough to do such things, but seriously, this time you’ve sustained a life-threatening injury!”

Sherlock stared up at him from his seat at the kitchen table, surprised. “What do you mean…used to be an Alpha−?”

John interrupted, “Sherlock! Don’t try to distract me from my point; I’m talking about you possibly having sustained a serious concussion from throwing yourself off of a warehouse roof into a skip!”

Sherlock said haughtily, “I’ve done it before John; I knew what I was doing. I jumped off the roof of St. Bart’s once, in fact−”

“God, Sherlock! I do not want to hear about that! Where on earth is your Omega sense of self-preservation anyway?!”

This frustrated outburst was met with a stunned silence from them both of them, until Sherlock, his eyes on the floor in front of John’s feet, replied in an icy tone, “I don’t know what you are talking about, John. I should have thought it was obvious, especially to you as a doctor, that I’m not an Omega. I am nothing. And before you start blurting out apologies and pity, let me make something clear to you: I don’t care. I don’t care what you think of me. I don’t care what anyone thinks of me. And if you don’t like living with someone who you so clearly see as a mutant, then you can leave! Just fuck-off John!”

With that, Sherlock rose and strode furiously from the kitchen and down the hall into his bedroom and slammed the door, leaving a surprised John staring after him, holding an ice-pack and a blood-stained flannel.

Sherlock did not re-emerge, so John, deep in thought over what had just occurred, cleaned up the kitchen, prepared a pot of tea, made hot buttered toast and carried a tray to Sherlock’s bedroom door where he set his tray down and knocked quietly.

“What?” came the sulky reply, “Just leave the key on the table, John. Spare me the boring good-byes, please.”

“Sherlock, I’m not leaving−not unless you want me to.” He listened but Sherlock made no reply. So he said, “I’ve made tea. Can we have a truce? I’m worried about your head. May I please look at it?”

The silence dragged out as John waited.

Finally Sherlock said, “You can come in if you want.”

If John wasn’t mistaken there was an unusual tremor in Sherlock’s voice, barely detectable but it caused John even more concern. He opened the door and went in, setting the tea on the nightstand and turning to Sherlock.

“May I examine your head again?”

“If you want to.”

John turned the light on and with gentle hands probed the bump and small cut on Sherlock’s head while Sherlock laid still and quiet.

“Not quite yourself, are you?” asked John, softly. “I know I’m a nuisance, but I need to keep checking you over the next few hours, you know, for concussion symptoms. And you can’t sleep too deeply tonight; I’ll need to wake you up often, alright?”

“Alright...” Sherlock said, and then, his voice barely audible from his pillow, “I’m sorry John…that I told you to fuck-off.”

John grinned. “No worries. It’s not the first time I’ve been told to do that.”

“But…I don’t say things like that, ever, to…people. So, I don’t know why I said it to you. I mean, it’s true that I don’t care if other people think I’m a freak…but you…” He trailed off.

John stroked his curls soothingly. “Sometimes bumps to the head do funny things to our emotions, Sherlock. Try not to worry about it right now. Your head has had enough strain for tonight.”

Sherlock sighed tiredly. “Thank you, John.”

John’s heart swelled with affection. “You’re more than welcome, Sherlock. You rest now. I’ll take care of you.”