John John Hamish Watson loved Sherlock Holmes.

Not obsessively, he told himself. But enough to make him feel a burning, aching need ever time he saw his flatmate; which, unfortunately for John, was all-day, everyday. They were both sat in their chairs in the living room, John with a book on his lap that he coulnt concentrate on, not with that man's lean, pale body so close to him. He felt a niggling feeling on the back of his neck and looked up, Sherlock was staring at him. His deducing face. Shit.
"What?" John asked, attempting a casual tone, knowing he'd failed the moment left his lips. Sherlock stared a little harder, his gaze getting more impossibley focused. Suddenly, his eyes relaxed and looked softly at John. "When were you going to tell me?" Sherlock knew.
"Never." "Why?" "I didn't want to be a burden." John felt uncomortable and vunrable in the long periods of silence that followed. Extremely uncertain, John glancedup and found the world's only counsulting detective's face mere inches from his own. He opened his mouth to speak, but couldn't as he found soft, warm lips on his own. A light, feathered touch. The blogger lingered for a second, paralyzed by shock but before he could decide what to do, his lips were left cold. Sherlock had backed away, a hurt expression marring his beautiful face. "What's wrong? Is it me because I thought you wanted this? I thought... you wanted... me." Sherlock sounded so wounded and John couldn't take it. He lept to his feet and pratically grabbed Sherlock before pulling him into a powerful kiss, full of emotion, but somehow fleeting. "I didn't do anything because if you rejected me, I couldn't stand it, I love you too much to let you go, even if we were only friends or flatmates or even bloody enemies. You are like air to me Sherlock, and I need you so badly. I knew you wouldn't feel the same, so I kept quiet, leaving you happy and in peace." John finished, talking to Sherlock's firm chest as they embraced. "Oh, you silly lttle man." Sherlock chuckled. "I love you too. My life depends on you John Watson and it's me that needs you."