Prompting Part XXV

[sherlockbbc_fic]

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Run

[anonymous]

When Sherlock returns, John doesn't punch him, hug him, or faint.

He runs away.

Re: Run

[anonymous]

Seconded!

Fill: and flooded lungs

[anonymous]

All it takes is one glance. One glance at the man on the doorstep, one glance at the way Mrs Hudson is clinging to him, one glance at the coat and the hair and the small bag in his hand-one glance is all it takes for John to realise his world has fallen apart again.

So he runs.

Shoves his keys back into his pockets, turns on his heel and just.

Just runs.

Runs until his lungs feel like they're about to explode; runs until the pain in his muscles is a sharp, aching numbness; runs until his heart hammers so hard it feels on fire.

John runs because he can't face this. Any of it. It's been three years, and he'd thought-he'd thought he was doing... fine. Not badly, but not well, and certainly... certainly not like before.

But he'd thought-and to realise that it was all wrong, that he'd been the one to die in the... fall, not-not that utter fucking bastard who just... Just, god.

GodSo John runs and runs and runs until he can't run any more, until his muscles rebel and dump him onto concrete, dragging in breaths that he almost wishes

Re: Fill: and flooded lungs

[anonymous]

Original Prompter here.

How would you feel about a spring wedding? Because I want to marry you and adopt this fic as our legal child.

Re: Fill: and flooded lungs

[ifonlynotnever]

jalkdfkd Most romantic proposal I've ever gotten.