Crying in the Night
I thought I ought to publish a new fic and I've got this one completed so I'll post one every two days if possible. I thought I ought to give I thought I ought to give you all a little Christmas present (I know it's the 27th but I haven't been online till today!)
Please review with your opinions, call it a birthday present if you want (it's my 22nd birthday today!)
Anything you recognise is not mine.
Love at First Sight
The first time she saw him, she instantly knew that she loved him. He was sat outside his dorm room which was across the hall from hers, crying silently but sullenly.
"Are you alright?" She had asked, making him look up. His dark curls which contrasted so well with his pale complexion were messy and his pale blue eyes were slightly watery with tears.
"Why do you care? Come to make fun of the 'freak', have you?" He snapped angrily, wiping away his tears.
"I care because you are obviously upset and I don't think you're a freak. You're the genius aren't you?" She smiled, hoping that he would talk to her.
"And how did you know about me?" He asked, narrowing his gorgeous eyes.
"One of my dorm mates and a good friend, Mary Morston, told me that she's seen you around and heard your dorm mates picking on you all the time. I live just across the hall, why don't you come in and have some tea? It'll get you out of this hallway." She replied. He seemed pensive for a few moments before nodding. He followed her inside and sat down at her direction before she made them both a cup of tea.
"I know you're studying Literature, that you come from the North but have Welsh family and that you have a Tom cat at home, but what is your name?" He asked after taking a few sips of tea. She froze, her own cup halfway to her mouth.
"How do you know that?" She asked, looking surprised.
"The book on your chair, you glanced at the page before you closed it which you wouldn't do if you weren't reading it. It's a Literature textbook which shows your course quite easily. Your accent, though faint, is distinctly Northern with a slight hint of Welsh. It's not enough to suggest that you've lived there but it suggests that a lot of your family is from Wales. And as for the cat, that was the simplest deduction of them all. There's a photo of you with a large black and white cat on the wall. Normally male cats are larger than females, so I guessed that it is male. How did I do, and your name?" He smirked, quirking an eyebrow. Her response surprised him, she laughed happily.
"I am studying Literature, I love reading and books so it was a natural choice. And I do live in the North with a pet Tom cat. But only my Paternal grandfather and my Maternal grandmother are fully Welsh, everyone else is only about half. And my name's Lili, Lili Jones." She smiled.
"Damn! Only two Welsh family members, there's always something!" He scowled, glaring at a corner.
"Hey, you got more things from small details than anyone else could. Don't worry about the fact that you got a tiny and inconsequential detail wrong. I've told you my name, will you tell me yours?" She said, placing a gentle hand on his arm. He looked at her once more.
"The tiny details can be the most important! They can all be used to form part of the big picture. And the name's Sherlock Holmes."
After that first meeting, Sherlock was often in Lili and Mary's dorm. In fact, he often slept in the spare bedroom when his dorm mates, Sebastian Wilkes and Thomas Anderson, locked him out of the dorm out of spite. Sebastian had tried to persuade Lili to go out with him, she had a striking appearance with her long dark hair, pale skin and gentle almond shaped eyes in an extraordinarily deep shade of blue-green. She refused, stating that she wasn't going to date someone who was idiotic enough to bully someone for being more intelligent than him. Sebastian's jealousy over her preference for Sherlock over him prompted him to report the fact that Sherlock often slept in the girls' dorm to the woman in charge of assigning dorms. But when Lili explained that Sebastian and Thomas kept locking him out and that he was actually sleeping in an unoccupied room, they weren't punished. In fact, when it was discovered just how often Sherlock was locked out, he was given special dispensation to move into Lili and Mary's dorm. Sebastian originally thought that Sherlock had been kicked out of the dorms when he packed all his stuff up. So when Sebastian found out that Sherlock had actually moved across the hall, he was more determined than ever to cause him suffering.
Sebastian and Thomas both kept harassing Lili, trying to get her to date them. Eventually, she ended up punching the both of them; she broke Anderson's nose and Sebastian's jaw, prompting the two men to leave her alone. They started on Mary but when she threatened them with Lili, they soon found themselves much less keen. After uni, Mary went on to become a Primary School teacher and Lili bought herself her own bookshop. The two women kept in touch and still kept contact with Sherlock.
He never realised that Lili was in love with him, and she never told him. Mary knew but she felt that it was up to her friend to tell him how she felt. But Lili was adamant that she kept it a secret so Sherlock went on thinking that no one would ever love him.