A couple years have passed since their first meeting, and now Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler meet somewhere in Bulgaria. However, at the very beginning of the night, none of them expects they will end up locked in a cell together.

Set an hour or so after the conversation in Mycroft's study in ASiB, I don't think Irene would have fled London immediately, do you?: Sherlock hadn't expected to see her, not now, not here, not after toppling her whole world… yet here she was, and he'd always remember tonight as the night something changed. Irene/Sherlock

Adrift and on his own whilst tracking down Moriarty's network, Sherlock finds himself contemplating what his life has become. It's Chopin's fault, really. A quick drabble.