Title: Believe
Word Count: 280
Prompt:God
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Religion is a touchy subject for all humans, even Sherlock Holmes.
Author's Note:I am deeply sorry if I offend any religious people with this vignette, that is not my intention. And I aplogise in advance for the little rant at the end. Please forgive me.
Believe
Sherlock does not believe in God.
Maybe it's an unwillingness to accept that something undefinable is running the universe, because if it's undefinable then he can't figure it out. Or maybe it's the lack of evidence, of cold hard facts that he needs to cling to. Or maybe it's just that he's seen too much to even consider such a thing as a benevolent God. But, whichever it is, Sherlock long ago decided that the idea of a God and creator of all things was one thing that he wouldn't allow his mind to comprehend. He doesn't like the idea of living by rules that aren't his own. All that Thou Shalt, and Thou Shalt Not...being told what to do isn't exactly a specialty of his.
Being a man such as he is, people don't tend to see his point of view on anything. It's a people-thing, he realises, when they don't like a person then they pick at every frayed and imperfect edge until they unravel. So, once this is picked up, the whispers of cold, emotionless, pessimistic, idiot, get somewhat louder.
So, he's reluctant to allow John – the only person to put up with his other eccentricities – to know this about him. Because he knows that religion is the one subject that people get irrational over.
But what he doesn't know is that John doesn't just 'put up' with all of Sherlock's oddities, and he won't just 'put up' with this newest revelation. Because, John knows, that if the man didn't have all of these peculiarities and odd little quirks...well, he just wouldn't be Sherlock now, would he?
And that's all John cares about, really.
Just a quick note from me - to the anonymous reviewer 'Erin'. I have to reply to your review this way because your reviewed anonymously. I just have a few points to raise in response to your review.
1/ - This is a fanfiction for the T.V Show of Sherlock, therefore I do not have to have read the books.
2/ - Incidentally, I have read the books.
3/ - Fanfiction is about people writing what they wish, and not what others want them to.
4/ - You misspelled characters. It is, in fact, spelled 'C-H-A-R-A-C-T-E-R-S'
But I'm happy to help,