Prompting Part XXXV

[sherlockbbc_fic]

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FILL: Fragmentation (7/?), John-on-Sherlock NON-CON, infidelity, possible victim-blaming

[(Anonymous)]

"Because I..." John's throat closes up, but he swallows, forces himself to give shape to his crime. "Because I raped you, Sherlock, and rapists belong in prison. You told me to stop, and I didn't."

"If only the universe were so neat."

"What...what do you mean?" John asks uncertainly.

"I took a rape case once. I gathered evidence, as I always do."

John nods, lifting his mug, letting tea slide down his throat to warm his empty stomach.

"None of it mattered in the end. The only facts the Met thought relevant were that the perpetrator was the son of an MP studying at Cambridge and the victim was a blonde from Essex who worked in chip shop and had a history of going home with men she met in pubs."

"They'll believe you," John says quietly.

"And why should they?" Sherlock shoots back.

"Because you're Sherlock Holmes."

Sherlock scoffs, tips his mug and takes another tiny, measured mouthful of tea.

"Mycroft, then," John suggests. "You could go to Mycroft."

"Yes, I could," Sherlock drawls with a sort of forced flippancy. "And, ever the protective older brother, he would ensure that you fell off the face of the Earth, very slowly and very, very painfully."

Fear slithers down John's spine, cold and tingling, seizes his heart in its brutal grasp.

It's what I deserve.

"All right," John says, swallowing against the lump in his throat.

Sherlock looks at John seriously for a moment, pale eyes piercing and clear, then intones, "No."

Dropping his gaze to his lap, John fingers a small crease in the right leg of his jeans, watches the milky-brown tea in his mug ripple as his left hand trembles almost imperceptibly.

"I am not going to press charges, John," Sherlock says. "Nor am I going to tell my brother."

"Sherlock..." John falters, head snapping up.

"What purpose would ensuring your punishment serve? What's one crime balanced against the dozens you've helped solve or the lives you've saved in your practice?"

John's heart clenches pitifully inside of his chest. He compresses his mouth into a hard, thin line, feeling the telltale prickle of tears welling in the corners of his eyes.

I don't deserve to cry. Not after what I've done.

"What I did, Sherlock, it's inexcusable...unforgivable."

"Have I in any way indicated that I've granted you forgiveness?"

"No," John replies.

Sherlock lowers his gaze and idly thumbs around the rim of his mug for half a minute. At last, in a voice so small that it's almost lost in the air between them, he asks, "Why?"