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“Sherlock, do you believe that you deserved the beating John gave you?”
He’s quiet. This question is an unsolvable riddle, every time he’s asked it.
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Sherlock has never known how to take care of himself — let alone anybody else. But if he wants John back in his life, he knows he’ll have to try. In the wake of Mary’s death and John’s rejection, a countryside retreat and a new friendship help Sherlock begin to grow into a better man.
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28 Oct 2025
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"Which child minder?" Sherlock asks with an air of suspicion. "Not the same one you used last Tuesday, I hope. Rosamund doesn't like that insufferable woman, and who could blame her? Imagine, thinking someone of Watson's intellect would be duped by cheap parlour tricks and tomfoolery."
"... Sherlock, it's peek-a-boo. Everybody plays peek-a-boo with babies."
After moving back into 221B with Rosie, John discovers that Sherlock has been hiding a chronic health condition caused by John's attack on him in the morgue. Together they navigate the fallout, becoming a family in the process.
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19 Sep 2025
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After Sherlock risks his life again, something snaps in John, and he walks away in an act of self-preservation. He leaves 221B and Sherlock behind to start a new life. It does not go well.
Sherlock realizes that this time, John is not coming back, and he is alone again. He tries to cope in an act of self-preservation. It does not go well.
How much harder is it to live for someone than to die for them?
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- Part 1 of OLTAB angst with happy ending fics
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09 Sep 2025
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under the burden of solitude by subtext-is-my-division (Quill_A) for allsovacant
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
27 Apr 2019
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He’s never had someone in his bed before. For a few days John’s scent will cling to the pillows, and when Sherlock goes to sleep he’ll be able to smell it, and he won’t feel so alone. Not that he has felt alone in a while, not since John came into his life, with his military-tight bed corners and scrambled eggs on Sunday. Spy-novels littered around in the living room, awful jumpers in the laundry hampers. Bits and pieces of John all over 221B, finding a place for themselves, stomping their presence on a space that once was little more than a flat, and is now (sort of, kind of) a home.
Five times they shared a bed platonically, and one time they didn't.
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23 Aug 2025
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A Study in Quiet by capricious__capricorn
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
15 Aug 2025
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The letter had been nothing but grief wrapped in barbed wire. Every word a deflection, every sentence tipped with venom he didn’t mean. And Sherlock—bloody Sherlock—had taken it. Just taken it. Because he cared. Because, in that maddening, twisted way that was his alone, he loved John.
Loved him in the way that said, I can take it, hit me again. In the way that said, I’ll put a gun to my own brother’s head if it means you walk out of here alive.
It wasn’t right. It wasn’t healthy. John knew that. But knowing didn’t stop the part of him that… relished it. The part that was selfish enough to find comfort in it.
And now, to think that it might all be about to end—this strange, fragile life they’d built—it made something raw twist in his chest. It made him want to slam a fist into the nearest wall, shout until his voice broke.
Because despite every protest, every denial, every stubborn piece of posturing, John had finally understood something in the past year.
He loved him.
He loved Sherlock Holmes in every way a man could love another man.Bookmarked by ElySab005
09 Aug 2025