Chapter 5: Dreams

They find him. It took them a whole day to check the cells after someone (Sherlock) had destroyed basically their base. They must have decided to give up on the place already as they came down to secure their prisoners and get them ready for the transport. Most of them wouldn't fight them. Too weak from starvation, lack of water or medical help after brutal torture.

Yes, Sherlock had time to observe his prison companion and he already knows he will not like what will follow. His cell door opens and a man looks surprised at him. Sherlock is leaning against the wall with his body relaxed, enjoying his status without restraint not dirty, hurt or starved, in clothes that could be called clean.

The guard is looking at him, surprised and confused. The second guard interrupts his conversation with a third and they all look into Sherlock´s cell. This cell is reserved for the most important prisoner, the one with information, the one with political interest or the ones that bring money. Everyone knows the prisoners in this cell but the man (boy) they find in it isn't the one they had looked at a few days before, after another seasion of interrogation.

"Who the hell are you?" Guard Number 2 asks as his two colleagues fail to say anything. The other prisoners, the ones who are able to notice a change in their situation direct their attention to the scene in front of them.

Sherlock is just sitting there and waiting. He has nothing better to do. He is the payment. No one expects anything from him, except keeping his mouth shut. At least the British side of this. His guards really would like him to talk. But as long as there is a chance to get out of this alive, Sherlock will keep all the Queen´s dirty little secrets for himself.

They didn't get much out of him, just the only answer that Sherlock was allowed to give. ´ just the only answer that Sherlock.´ This answer is nothing the boss of the terrorist likes and Sherlock is transported with the other prisoners into the new headquarters,. a place the British government has no information about. This is another thing that pushes the agent's mood to a new low. Of course there will be much more unpleasant things in the near future that he won't like but being at a place his brother is not aware about makes his chance of survival nearly impossible.

Months pass and Sherlock hadn't seen the sun for the same amount of time. The cell he is located in is also his torture room. The first week they had bothered with different places but now Sherlock isn't leaving his room anymore. Sometimes they come in and throw a bucket of cold water over him for cleaning, as they tell him. It's nothing more than another method to hurt him.

His keepers (he has no better word for them) have started to get frustrated about the lack of information they got out of him in over five months.

Five months. Sherlock had heard them talking as they thought he was unconscious but he had listened. Five months and his brother hasn't rescued him. Does it mean that he is forgotten, presumed dead, another name on a list of victims to this war?

Suddenly Sherlock´s pain filled mind supplies him with a picture of John. Surprised by the soft smile the soldier was offering him. John wouldn't forget, John was waiting, waiting for him.

He might question his thoughts if he had enough strength to do so but in his condition the dream of the handsome soldier waiting for him is everything that he needs. Somehow the man achieved something his parents hadn't in years, giving him a feeling of belonging.

Sherlock falls asleep while wondering what his home could look like should he be rescued someday, and without thinking about it, the tired man places his captain in this dream. How could this man capture his heart in less than two days?

In the end it isn't important anymore, he will never get out of here. Sherlock will die alone and everything that he has left are his dreams with the first human being that didn't reject him, and most likely stole his heart with this action.