I struggled through Monday, and then wrote a chapter. Be proud of me.

Be prepared for this chapter...many things you probably most likely saw coming are happening (okay, maybe only like one thing, but still)

January 6

So Mycroft called. JW [sent at 10:32]

Did he? SH [sent at 10:33]

He did. He said something about you. Well, more about you and me. JW [sent at 10:33]

What did he say? SH [sent at 10:37]

He said you're worried about me. Are you worried about me, Sherlock? JW [sent at 10:37]

That is what he said. SH [sent at 10:40]

Why're you worried about me? JW [sent at 10:40]

It's Tracie. SH [sent at 10:44]

Oh, this again? Sherlock, we've been over this. JW [sent at 10:44]

You don't understand. Mycroft showed me some interesting security camera footage from the hospital cafeteria, apparently where you were having lunch with her. SH [sent at 10:44]

I swear, Mycroft is basically Mr. The British Government. JW [sent at 10:45]

But what about our lunch date is interesting? Were we being too much of a couple for you? JW [sent at 10:45]

No. Well, that too. But it's something else. SH [sent at 10:46]

What? JW [sent at 10:49]

You left her there to use the toilet at 12:36 on Wednesday afternoon, correct? SH [sent at 10:50]

More or less, yeah. JW [sent at 10:52]

You just left her there, all alone. SH [sent at 10:52]

What of it? JW [sent at 10:52]

You left your reasonably attractive girlfriend out all alone amongst your reasonably attractive male co-workers? SH [sent at 10:53]

What're you trying to say, Sherlock? JW [sent at 10:53]

I'm trying to say that in the time that it took you to use the bathroom, and I apologize for slowing you down with my texts, Tracie went and did rather unfaithful things with the gentleman at the next table over. SH [sent at 10:53]

John? SH [sent at 11:01]

I don't believe you. JW [sent at 11:02]

I still have the footage, if you'd like. SH [sent at 11:02]

I still don't believe you. JW [sent at 11:03]

I'm not sure why you would react so strongly, John. You've broken up with plenty of girlfriends, many of whom you quite frankly have dated for a while longer than this one. SH [sent at 11:05]

I'm going to go to her flat and talk to her. I swear to god, Sherlock, if you text me, I will kill you. JW [sent at 11:07]

I don't appreciate it when you use such brutal figures of speak, particularly given my past with things like that. SH [sent at 11:07]

Damn it, Sherlock, just leave me alone for a bit. JW [sent at 11:07]

I told you she was no good for you. SH [sent at 11:08]

Well, I went to her flat! And guess what she said? JW [sent at 14:05]

That it was true? SH [sent at 14:06]

Not only that, but she gave me a reason. JW [sent at 14:06]

And that reason would be? SH [sent at 14:07]

That she doesn't want to steal me away from you. And that she was going to break it off anyways for that reason. JW [sent at 14:09]

I see. SH [sent at 14:10]

Does that mean she thought we were... SH [sent at 14:12]

Dating? Yes. JW [sent at 14:12]

Why? SH [sent at 14:12]

I don't know, but she seemed pretty damn sure about it. JW [sent at 14:13]

And how I wish she was correct. SH [message deleted]

You have no idea how long I've waited to call Mycroft 'Mr. The British Government'. No. Idea.

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