Notes: This is gonna get angsty and there will be torture/torture references. I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna do with the story, but my mind has been racing ever since I saw the 3rd season of Sherlock. I was wondering what happened to Sherlock in Serbia and primarily how he held up, obviously he could still be in pain, (if) you saw the state of his back in The Empty Hearse. There will be no slash. This is my 1st fanfiction. I do not have a beta reader and english is not my mother tongue. Excuse me for any grammar mistakes, feel free to point them out.

Prologue

This is the price of keeping John safe.

2 years.

The thoughts never left his head. When he was finally captured, and he knew the Serbians wouldn't play nice, he held on to the thought of John, alive. Molly, Lestrade and Mrs Hudson, alive.

He was glad to know this was the last piece of the puzzle. He was tired, beaten and broken.