fic: a mother knows; one-sided sherlock/john and ust; spoilers for s03e01

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Title: A Mother Knows
Summary: A missing scene from The Empty Hearse, taking place after the Bonfire scene. She cleans and bandages Sherlock’s burns and blisters, but there’s really nothing she can do about his broken heart, how much ever she wants to. A mother always knows, but some things require divine intervention. Mrs. Holmes is many things, but a deity she is not.
Rating: NC 17
Spoilers: Sherlock BBC Season 3 Episode 1: The Empty Hearse, and everything that happens in and before it.
Warning: UST and One-Sided Romance between Sherlock and John. There is no happy ending.
AN: Wrote this instead of working on my dissertation. Am clearly going to hell. I have a soft spot in my heart for mother-son relationships. This is my version of Mrs. Holmes, and is based on inferences from the previous seasons of Sherlock BBC, which tell us time and time again that the Holmes household was far from normal. Sometimes I take that to be a bad thing. This time, I’ve taken it to be a good thing. I didn’t have time to get the actual transcript of the episode, so I’m going off my memory. This is unbeta’d.
Disclaimer: I own nothing recognizable and am making no credit from this. Although Sherlock Holmes and his ensemble characters are in the public domain, this particular incarnation belongs to the BBC, and all references made to everything in the episode are respectfully credited to them.


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