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Vengeance

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord…

Sherlock’s not a man of faith, he doesn’t call on god, he does not pray. Sherlock’s not a man to touch, laying hands on strangers, cyphers, fools.

But, as in all things, for John Sherlock makes exceptions.

He was a hundred metres away when he spotted his angry little love marching down Park Road, unaware Sherlock followed. And follow Sherlock would, until the set of those shoulders softened, until that stride turned again to swagger. Sherlock would follow, and wait, and then he’d—

He was just a hundred metres away when it happened. A hundred metres, which, it turns out, is exactly far enough for…

Two young men to drift up to John like smoke and shadow.

It’s exactly far enough for…

Those men to touch John.

It’s so far, too far, far enough away for…

A man who’s already running to hear those boys call John queer, fairy, faggot.

A hundred metres is quite far enough for a man who has no faith to call on the divine, to pray and pray, in a single breathless chant, “Oh god please…”

And a hundred metres is enough, more than enough—why you’d need much, much less really—to build in that man a rage so blind that when he’s there, finally there, Sherlock rends. He tears.

In the end both of those boys needed stitches, in the end one of them was so badly battered he was hospitalized with a concussion, dislocated shoulder, multiple contusions.

But the only thing Sherlock regretted, despite the court case later, despite the fractures in three of his own fingers, was the small scar John had after, invisible unless you knew where to look, right there, at the very edge of his brow.

It’s years since that afternoon, but now and again Sherlock brushes at the tiny scar with the pad of his thumb, and he kisses that place warm.

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Well, this is a very, um, aggressive thank you to The Science of Johnlock, who wonderfully dedicated a whole day of her blog to me. When I asked what wee fic I could write for her she requested BAMF!Sherlock. Apparently I heard very-extremely-BAMF!Sherlock.

*nom*