Genre: Friendship

Warnings: …. *shrugs*…. None necessary that I can see

Title: Tricked Part 8 Finale (Holmes POV)

I sat through Watson's retelling of his experiences at the hands of his cruel captors. How the man kept himself together like he did is beyond me, even I the great Sherlock Holmes, would never have been able to endure the horrors the good doctor had been faced with.

As he explained that the villains wanted information about me I stiffened; it was my fault then that this had happened.

Lestraude asked his questions carefully, mindful not to probe too much in case he upset Watson. There were a few points I could tell Watson was hiding something, not things that would portend to Lestraude's investigation, but little things that he didn't want to tell right then.

Watson didn't go into specifics about the torture he was submitted to but he did give us a pretty good idea of what had happened. It was horrible enough without

His story took the better part of two hours to tell and by the time he had finished Lestraude was almost dead white, "Doctor I don't know how you withstood all that." Lestraude remarked as he closed his notebook getting ready to leave.

"I'm stronger than you would think." As he settled back into his pillow Watson gave us both a wan smile.

Lestraude left and I made myself comfortable in the chair I had been basically living in for the past few days when Watson's voice stopped me, "Go home old man, I'll be fine." Seeing my sulky expression he added, "I'll still be here, I promise Sherlock. Get some rest."

"Only because its you." I stood up with a muffled groan, "Get some sleep yourself, and don't worry; tomorrow you'll be home safe and sound in your own bedroom."

Giving him one last fond look I turned and left, headed home for the first time in days. My mood was actually pretty good, we'd have Reggie in our grasp within days and Watson was on his way to recovering pretty well not to mention the fact that he'd be home by this time tomorrow come hell or high water. Or just really angry doctors.

I couldn't care one way or another, as long as I had my Boswell my life had meaning, without him I would be reduced to nothing. Nothing but an emotionless machine unable to deal with ridiculous emotions.

Yes, I decided, I am a lucky man to have found someone so loyal and kind as John Watson for a friend.

And there is nothing on this earth that will ever change that.

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed Tricked, now that it's officially over and I'd like to thank the people who've read this and left me a review (all 2 of you). I'll be continuing the drabbles of course, maybe another story arc. I will admit I had not planned on Tricked becoming so long.

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