Title: Making the Connection
Story Summary: A non-chronological collection of short chapters based on one word prompts, includes (pre-)slash for Johnlock & Mystrade
Chapter Summary: Sherlock's strangely good looks are impossible to miss. What was John's first impression of him? Prompt: Catcher
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Moffat, Gatiss & SACD.
A/N: You've probably all noticed that I'm more of an angsty post-Reichenbach writer at the moment, but if you're the same as me and need your daily dosage of smut and fluff, why don't you go check out my inspiration for this series? It's floppybelly's wonderful 'Oneword prompts: Sherlock'. And fyi: this prompt came from oneword(dot)com.
John follows Mike through the hallways of Bart's. The familiar smell alone triggers a flashback, although it now feels like another lifetime. Mike's giving him a little tour which ends in the morgue. They enter the lab together and John looks around. There's plenty of new equipment to perform the new tests that they couldn't even dream of when he trained here. "Bit different from my day", he acknowledges.
"You have no idea", Mike says with a chuckle.
"Mike, can I borrow your phone? There's no signal on mine." The question comes from a man working at the bench at the far end of the room.
John hadn't paid attention to him when he first entered the room but now his head automatically jerks into his direction and he can't take his eyes off anymore. He's quite a bit taller than John, his dark brown hair accentuates his light eyes and the black suit stands out against the pale skin. John wonders what it would feel like to stroke over those cheekbones with his thumb. The strange man is quite the eye-catcher.
They're still talking about phones when he stops taking in the other man's appearance.
"I prefer to text", the stranger says and John cocks his head. They have something in common then.
"Sorry, it's in my coat", is all that Mike replies and the other man seems to reluctantly resign himself to waiting until he's out of here to send the text.
Then John takes out his own phone, he doesn't really know why, but that man has something fascinating about him. "Here, use mine."