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His destination is Away, he’s running to Not Here.
Sherlock runs through the trees and the mud, the rain and the cold, through the pain and the fear, and he knows it’s not enough.
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Home; a space you do not recognise, filled with people you have never laid eyes on before.
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He’d never thought that being home would be difficult, life as he knew it before had been easy in comparison, and he’d expected that it would be again.
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Hows For Whys by hitlikehammers for scullyseviltwin
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
09 Jan 2017
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John’s had plenty of opportunities, hell: he’s had opportunities today, just now. He maybe even thought he was taking advantage of one of those opportunities. But John's learned enough from this chair, in this home that he can’t escape, that can’t escape him—John’s learned it doesn’t matter what he thinks, what he hopes, no: facts matter. Evidence matters. What it all adds up to in the end is what matters, and what it all adds up to is this:
John Watson is not the man he wants to be.
Spoilers for 4.02—The Lying Detective
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17 Feb 2026
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As On A Darkling Plain by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
01 Nov 2013
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“You and me, and our problem” John pauses, and Sherlock can hear the way he swallows, the connection all too clear: “The final problem.”
Gottle o’ geer...gottle o’ geer...gottle o’ geer. The echoes of the past ricochet indefinite inside Sherlock’s skull, and down as they give way to the present, as he stares up at the rooftop, at John.
Oh. Oh, no.
Sherlock's greatest fear isn't one that he can face.
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17 Feb 2026
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In between corpses and embezzlement cases and grand thefts, it’s all very comfortable and domestic.
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- Part 1 of Pocketwatch Series
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17 Feb 2026
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The Key by 221b_careful_what_you_wish_for
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
13 Dec 2014
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Six months after the tarmac scene, John gives his key to 221B Baker Street back to Sherlock, deciding he needs a clean start -- but there's too much left unresolved for that to easily happen.
(I wrote this purely for the feels, wondering what would happen if John walked away after all the trauma of S3... You know they can't stay apart, but what might happen in between?)
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26 Jan 2026
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Gone to Feed the Roses (Elegant and Curled) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
15 Jun 2012
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John Watson is no one's weeping widow, and he knows that it's not impossible to cheat death.
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