but sometimes it hurts instead (so darkness I became)
a Sherlock fanfiction
johnxsherlock
I remember,years ago, someone told me I should take caution when it comes to love.
I did.
Chontelle's Impossible
never mind, I'll find someone like you
"I can't say it."
He whispers it to himself at night after waking up screaming, crying; night mares of talking and not being able to touch, of running and reaching, of blood-matted curls and being to late chasing him back to bitter wakefulness, snapping at his heels and hissing, "You didn't believe him," and he knows.
In between those screams he chokes on final confessions, words left unsaid and better left buries in the graves shame built them.
Every day struggles past and not one passes when he doesn't think about it, about him; as he stood up on that rooftop singing lies and desperation, hair flying wild in the wind as John stoop below, crying confusion and strangling back the truth.
Time bleeds by slowly as though from a wound begun to heal, thick and viscous, but it hasn't. That wound bleeds, fast and fresh as the day it was inflicted, from the burned, blackened cavity where his heart used to be, the wide gaping maw of his emptiness visible in the clench of his hand and the stiffness of his gait.
Moriarty finally followed through on his threat from all that while ago and his intended collateral damage became a second victim.
don't forget me, I beg
I'll remember you said
He still can't say it; after a year of the seven stages, he's still stuck on the first. If he doesn't say it, it'll cease to be true, it'll stop corroding inside his soul, it'll stop him feeling so incomplete.
But it lingers, there in every scream, in every tear, in every half-confession gasped into the darkness. It festers in the cavity in his chest, dripping down in glittering dark read beads. It's the colour of his rage, of his ache, of his shame; making a mess and a mess of him.
And dark bright black, his regret hangs over his head like the waiting blade of a guillotine and is wrapped around his neck, a rope with which he has already hung himself.
What does it even matter if he says it aloud or if he leaves it crystallising in his veins; words left unspoken stayed negligible whether or not he screamed them from the rooftops or took them and set the skyline on fire with them.
sometimes it last in love
After all, what good would "I love you," do a dead man?
but sometimes it hurts instead
and in the dark I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
but then, it stopped
and I was in the darkness
so darkness I became
Florence + the Machine's Cosmic Love
Love hurts
Love bites and Love pricks
Love hits hard and Love fights back
Love soothes with lovely, terrible words
and Love takes them back with a tongue
never more wicked
never lovelier
Love is a sinner, Love is a saint
Love cuts deep and Love stabs back
But when Love bleeds out gasping Love's name
who is left but Love to hold Love's hand
as Love cries out
for all Love has lost?
~ Olivia Imogen Witchcross
End notes ~ Reviews, comments, criticisms, thoughts are always appreciated.
Music that inspired as I wrote this fic:
Rumour Has It/Someone Like You ~ the Glee Cast
What the Water Gave Me ~ Florence + the Machine
What Hurts the Most ~ Rascal Flatts
Someone Like You ~ Adele