Please don't man hunt me for the ending of this chapter.

Because then I won't be able to write the next one.

Some explicit language in this as well. Mostly directed towards Mycroft.

Disclaimer: Sherlock is property of the BBC, Mark Gatiss, and Steven Moffat, life ruiners extraordinaire. I am making no profit from this work, and am just creating it for yours and my suffering enjoyment.

AUGUST

[8/03]
Outgoing: [7:36am] I've been thinking about that time, when we were cuffed together.
Outgoing: [7:36am] And we were running from the police.
Outgoing: [7:38am] We held hands.
Outgoing: [7:39am] I regret that was the only time. It felt… nice.
Outgoing: [7:40am] Right.
Outgoing: [9:12am] I wrote about the men found who were connected to Moriarty.
Outgoing: [9:13am] Some… bastard… went off about how he was glad you were dead. Because you're a fake.
Outgoing: [9:14am] If anyone knew you… really knew you. They would know that you weren't a fraud.
Outgoing: [9:27am] Christ, I thought this was going to be a good day.
Outgoing: [10:37pm] Goodnight, Sherlock.
[8/04]
Outgoing: [3:04am] I miss you.
[8/06]
Outgoing: [7:09pm] We've been working on this one case for a while, two weeks I'd say.
Outgoing: [7:09pm] Could really use your help. You'd have it solved. We're pretty stumped.
Outgoing: [7:31pm] Man died of a bee sting. Allergic.
Outgoing: [7:45pm] But… there's no bee. He was locked inside a clean room. Allergic to pretty much everything.
Outgoing: [7:56pm] No bee. But he clearly went in to A. shock.
Outgoing: [8:14pm] Was tied up in some pretty nasty business deals somehow. Motive?
Outgoing: [8:16pm] But it was a bee sting… I don't get it.
[8/07]
Outgoing: [3:57am] I feel like you.
Outgoing: [3:58am] Laying on the couch staring at the ceiling trying to figure this out.
Outgoing: [4:03am] Only difference is you probably would have solved it already.
Outgoing: [5:32am] Bees…
[8/10]
Outgoing: [11:04am] Found a box with syringes in it today on the doorstep.
Outgoing: [11:08am] Contained bee venom. Or bee poison. Or whatever I suppose you would call it.
Outgoing: [11:10am] His business partner's fingerprints were on them.
Outgoing: [11:32am] Thank you.
[8/13]
Outgoing: [4:15pm] I found your eyeballs today.
Outgoing: [4:16pm] These things have to have been in the freezer for five years.
Outgoing: [4:18pm] Better than the kidneys in the fridge I found last year.
Outgoing: [5:03pm] Can you believe they actually made me smile? The eyes I mean.
Outgoing: [5:06pm] I suppose I really miss you that much.
Outgoing: [5:14pm] Don't suppose I'd even mind a severed head in the fridge at this point.
Outgoing: [11:52pm] Goodnight, Sherlock.
[8/15]
Outgoing: [2:23pm] Someone stopped me today on the street.
Outgoing: [2:24pm] You know what they said?
Outgoing: [2:24pm] That they believed in you.
Outgoing: [2:26pm] I didn't know what to say. They just smiled and went on.
Outgoing: [2:30pm] It was a man, had to be around Lestrade's age. I'm still baffled.
Outgoing: [2:35pm] It's nice to know other people believe in you.
Outgoing: [2:36pm] Will you come back if enough people do?
Outgoing: [2:40pm] I wouldn't rest until the whole world believed in you.
Outgoing: [9:58pm] If I put on Tchaikovsky at night it helps me sleep better.
Outgoing: [10:02pm] I can hear it just fine from your room.
Outgoing: [10:05pm] I can pretend you'll slip into bed next to me just after I fall asleep and you've finished playing.
Outgoing: [11:34pm] Is this what it feels like to go insane?
[8/16]
Outgoing: [8:37am] Good morning.
Outgoing: [8:40am] Useless, you'd say.
[8/20]
Outgoing: [10:16am] A man was found in America. New York.
Outgoing: [10:17am] Connected to Moriarty. I'm not too sure what he was doing there.
Outgoing: [10:19am] Something about black market trades.
Outgoing: [10: 20am] Same bullet as the rest of them.
Outgoing: [11:00am] Is that why I haven't seen you lately? Because you've been in America?
Outgoing: [1:15pm] You should come home.
[8/22]
Outgoing: [2:26pm] Fucking Mycroft...
Outgoing: [2:30pm] I know you're probably reading this. Fuck you.
Outgoing: [2:31pm] Mycroft bugged the flat.
Outgoing: [2:32pm] I don't know why. Probably all the men connected to Moriarty showing up dead. Worried they'll retaliate or something.
Outgoing: [2:34pm] He can take his fucking bugs and cameras and shove them up his arse.
Outgoing: [2:38pm] He probably thinks I'm going insane, texting you all the time.
Outgoing: [2:45pm] I probably am.
[8/25]
Outgoing: [8:43pm] Got an anonymous tip about a man in London connected to Moriarty. Initials SM.
Outgoing: [8:44pm] Staked him out for two days, but he slipped past us somehow. Could be anywhere now.
Outgoing: [8:46pm] Was it you?
Outgoing: [9:00pm] You should have just taken care of him yourself, like the others.
Outgoing: [9:01pm] He wouldn't have gotten away.
[8/27]
Outgoing: [4:16am] I pulled out your bathrobe today. It smells like you just took it off.
Outgoing: [4:17am] What is it about you that's so desperate to linger after you've gone?
[8/28]
Outgoing: [12:02pm] Harry checked into a center today. Clara helped her.
Outgoing: [12:03pm] I think this time will stick. Clara has hope. That's good.
Outgoing: [12:04pm] Very good.
[8/29]
Outgoing: [11:14pm] Goodnight, Sherlock.
Incoming: [11:16pm]
Outgoing: [11:20pm] Sherlock?

[Outgoing Call] 11:21pm