Sherlock Fic: See Enclosed
A pair of drabbles for July prompt #28 at watsons_woes
See Enclosed
“Sherlock… are you… sweating?”
“This is a crowded elevator, John. I thought I had taught you to observe at least that much.”
“Yes, but we’ve been in the elevator for… three minutes? We’re still cool. And your hands are shaking! Sherlock…”
“No they aren’t!”
“Yes, I can feel…”
“Do not touch me, John.”
“Sherlock, are you afraid of elevators?”
“Absolutely not.”
“Then… you’re claustrophobic! Sherlock, you’re claustrophobic and it’s your fault we’re stuck in this elevator!”
“Be quiet!”
“It’s true. You created your own worst nightmare.”
“No, John, be quiet! They can hear-Ladies and Gentlemen! Allow me to explain!...”
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The text summoning him to the abandoned biolab was several hours old, but John decided to go anyway. If Sherlock wasn’t there, John could just go home. Sherlock wasn’t answering his phone, as usual.
John was about to leave the shop when he heard a noise from the tiny walk-in freezer, and realized. He giggled and opened the door.
Sherlock was just scrambling up, and arranging haughtiness on his face, but John observed the faint redness of his eyes, and the tenser-than-trembling muscles of his jaw and neck.
He placed a steady hand on Sherlock’s shoulder.
He would laugh tomorrow.