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DOMESTICITY

Doctor

In which Watson is unconscious

He hears his steps, light and quick behind him. Her fingers brush against the fabric of the doctor's coat he had snatched from the clinic. He stops in his tracks, not daring to meet her eyes.

She speaks gently, "Doctor, I know you care for him as much as I do."

He feels like laughing at her. At himself. At the man half-paralyzed, half-conscious in a creaking bed, murmuring his name in between the half-sobs and frantic gasps of air thick with things left unsaid.

"You have no idea, madam," he says quietly, knowing despite the slight wind, his voice will carry. He does not why he tells her this or why his heart is pounding as he walks away, shoes clacking smartly against the stone path.

She watches the white of his back disappear into the night. It is only when she turns to go back inside does she whisper what she wish she had the nerve to say, "And he cares for you, Mr. Holmes, more than you'll ever know."


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