Afraid to Love

by ArizonaRoseWolf

John and Sherlock meet several times before being adults. Each time, John is there when Sherlock needs somebody, even if he doesn't realize it. When he does realize it, will it be far too late? This is rated T because I am a very cautious person.

1. Chapter 1

A/N: This is Sherlock's POV. I do not own Sherlock. This is sad.

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I was bored. The moronic woman who was watching me didn't seem to get that. I understood that mummy had to work and I wasn't old enough to go to school but daycare was degrading. None of the others wanted to spell actual words with the blocks with letters, they just made leaning towers. And started crying whenever I tried to use the blocks and one kid, named Sebastian threw one at my head. So I was in the corner, bored and alone. Again.

The door opened and the woman brought another boy in. He was a few years older than me, had short blonde hair, and bright blue looked around the room and went to play with the others. When they ignored him and threw a block at his head, he wondered around the room before noticing me. He asked me if I wanted to play and I said, "No, there's nothing fun here."

He looked at me and said, "We can be pirates!"

I'd always wanted to be a pirate so we spent the rest of the time before mummy came building a ship out of the toy boxes and swinging from bookshelf to bookshelf. I was the captain and he was the captain's right hand man.

When I was leaving with mummy, I realized that I hadn't learned the boy's name. He wasn't there next week, or the week after that. I went back to sitting in my corner after realizing that being a lone pirate was no fun. I needed my right-hand man.