A/N: Part 4 of 6. o:
Summary: There are five reasons John Watson hates Christmas, and one reason why Sherlock loves Christmas.
Format: 221B / 5-1
The Fourth Reason John Watson Hates Christmas
At sixteen, John was as self-involved as many boys his age. The pain he felt from Samantha's break-up only surfaced when he thought of her, which wasn't often anymore. He'd begun playing rugby and was quite good at it, despite his size. However, he'd received a hard blow in the last game he'd played and had been sat out these last three games. To add insult to injury, the entire team had found out his middle name, calling him Hamish whenever they passed him.
Two weeks of ridicule passed before John had enough. A nerd had called him by his middle name and John pressed the boy against a locker. He demanded the teen tell him how everyone knew his middle name, and the boy gave him the answer readily enough. He admitted that his sister had let the secret slip at a party last month, asking where her "cute little Hamish," was. Nobody thought anything of it, knowing Harry's reputation as a drunk, but she slipped out that "Hamish" and "John" were the same person when someone asked. John asked about his sister's "reputation as a drunk," but was unable to get further information from the frightened boy.
Come Christmas eve, John would learn of Harry's "reputation as a drunk" when she went on a binge.