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1. Echoes from the Darkness by KathyG for sgam76, bees_stories, IantoLives

   Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms  

   • Not Rated
   • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   28 May 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
   • Sherlock Holmes & Greg Lestrade
   • Harry Watson & John Watson
   • John Watson & Rosamund Mary "Rosie" Watson
   • Mycroft Holmes & John Watson
   • Mycroft Holmes & Sherlock Holmes & Sherlock Holmes' Father & Sherlock Holmes' Mother
   • John Watson & John Watson's Family
   • John Watson & Sherlock Holmes' Family
   • Greg Lestrade & John Watson
   • John Watson & Original Character(s)
   • John Watson
   • John Watson's Father
   • John Watson's Mother
   • John Watson's Family
   • Harry Watson
   • Sherlock Holmes
   • Mrs. Hudson (Sherlock Holmes)
   • Mycroft Holmes
   • Mummy (Sherlock)
   • Sherlock Holmes' Father
   • Greg Lestrade
   • Sally Donovan
   • Rosamund Mary "Rosie" Watson
   • Original Characters
   • original characters borrowed from sgam76
   • widowed John Watson - Character
   • Original Male Characters
   • Anthea (Sherlock)
   • Siger Holmes
   • No Slash
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Post-Episode: s04e03 The Final Problem
   • Kidnapping
   • Attempted Murder
   • Major Character Injury
   • John Watson Whump
   • Post-Season/Series 04
   • Medical Trauma
   • Serious Injuries
   • Near Death
   • Injured John Watson
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Hospitalization
   • Canon Compliant
   • Friendship
   • past original character death
   • Angst
   • when the past comes back to bite you
   • John's friends protect him
   • Post-Canon
   • John Watson's family background
   • PTSD symptoms
   • Nightmares
   • Flashbacks
   • Mycroft being a good surrogate brother
   • Childhood Memories
   • painful memories
   • John Watson in Afghanistan
   • Mycroft decides to accept John as a brother
   • Surrogate family
   • limp
   • surrogate parents
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Child Abuse
   • Past Child Abuse
   • Abuse
   • Past Abuse
   • John's past
   • John and Harry's past
   • Kings Hospital

   Summary

   In this post-“Sherlock” story, Sherlock, as it turns out, is not the only one with demons underneath his road; John has his own share of demons waiting for him, too. And now, not only is John compelled to remember old traumas from his childhood, but the demons under his road have arisen to threaten his life and the lives of his loved ones. Can Sherlock and John’s other friends deliver him and his family from them? This story is part casefic and part physical/emotional hurt/comfort. (Part of the back history of this story comes from a previous 20-chapter story of mine, which I posted back in early 2021, “Please, God, Let Me Live.”)

   [NOTE: Read boldfaced note at the bottom of my opening notes below this story summary about my reason for including this story in three of my Ao3 lists, preceding "First Christmas"—ran out of room in this summary!]

   5-28-25: I have just included a closing author's note to this story, announcing a new story that I'm soon going to start posting!

   Series

   • Part 26 of John Watson's Life
   • Part 8 of Echoes from the Darkness verse
   • Part 4 of Baby Johnny 'verse
   • Part 4 of Pre-Sherlock John Watson
   • Part 4 of John Watson-Holmes: Home to North Holmwood 'verse

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   115,607

   Chapters:

   37/37

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