Prompting Part XXXV

[sherlockbbc_fic]

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Fill: The Light Long Gone (8b/8)

[tenderly-wicked.livejournal.com]

Sherlock is huddled up in the big armchair, like a gaunt teenager, dressed in grey cotton pajamas. He looks sullen. He looks like he’s been sitting there for quite some time, waiting for John to return and doing nothing else.

“How’s Mary?” he inquires off-handedly.

“She’s, er, a bit upset, I suppose. Which is understandable.”

“Oh yes.” Sherlock looks pointedly at the overnight bag John has taken with him. John feels a bit edgy, standing in the middle of the room while Sherlock is eyeing him with a strange expression on his face. “Still, it was very generous of her to let you stay with your friend who happens to be unwell,” Sherlock continues. “For how long?”

“What do you mean?”

“Your things. Judging by the volume of your bag, it’s supplies for five to seven days, so that you wouldn’t have to go home every time you need a spare shirt. So how long will it be? A week? I’d rather know it now. It’s always better to settle terms in advance.”

Had he been preparing himself for a difficult conversation too?

“It seems like I’m getting divorced,” John says with a sigh. “So I was actually planning to move in. I might roam between here and, um, Mary’s place for a while, but I planned to relocate some of my belongings later. Well, most of them. They are not many.” A thought suddenly occurs to him: “That’s if you don’t mind. It’s kind of stupid that I haven’t asked you, so if you don’t want me to…”

Sherlock interrupts him. “Your chair is still here,” he says quietly.

“Well, it’s good to be missed,” John admits and finally drops his bag to the floor. With unpacking on his mind (should he do it upstairs, or is it better to check first if Sherlock hasn’t turned his former room into a laboratory?), he doesn’t notice Sherlock’s look, still gloomily pensive, until Sherlock says, “If you want to have sex, I’m amenable.”

John blinks at him. “Hm?”

“I’m amenable,” Sherlock repeats, contemplating some spot on the floor. Seems like carefully chosen words. Not ‘I want that too’, not ‘we could try it’. He’s amenable.

“I should warn you that I have some scarring that might be a turn-off,” Sherlock goes on in a business-like manner, but with his gaze still lowered, “but it’s mostly on my back, so if you prefer not to see... Seb didn’t mind, I think he liked the thought of me receiving those scars, but I could lie face up if it’s too disturbing...”

“Is it what you told Seb?” John blurts out. “Offered him a deal—and he agreed?”

Sherlock wraps his arms around himself sulkily—an unconscious protective gesture.

John breathes in and out, cursing his harshness. “I mean we don’t have to. You don’t have to. I’m staying anyway. Also, do you mind if I find Seb and punch him?” he adds as afterthought. “Maybe a few times? I thought bankers were all supposed to be heartless bastards, but he’s working too hard to maintain his reputation.”

Sherlock dares a quick glance at him. “Better not at his office. You’ve already been given an ASBO.”

“Yeah, it would be sort of inconvenient to make an appointment with his secretary. What would I say when she asked for the purpose of my visit?”

They look straight at each other and suddenly start giggling, quite out of place, like in the good old times.