WARNINGS: Child Abuse and Alcohol abuse
June 18th, 2005
John's POV
After he is dropped off at the clinic, he stands just inside the door for a moment as he watches the car pull off.
Well, he thinks, that went better than expected. He had honestly expected Sherlock to need to stop far sooner than he did. According to Jim, the overload was caused by a couple arguing. Sometimes he is very thankful that he cannot hear, because he can easily understand how that could happen. Before he lost his hearing completely, he had hated listening to his parents fight every time his father got drunk. It was during one of those drunk periods that he lost what was left of his hearing.
Shaking his head and sighing, he turns from the door, locking everything behind him as he heads deeper into the building.
Well then, he ponders as he makes his way through the clinic, I should take some notes on all of my patients. Both the homeless ones and Sherlock, in order to keep their files up-to-date.
Upon reaching his office, he slips in, quickly moving to turn his computer on and get to work. Hours fly by, and it's not until he starts feeling a pinch in his lower back from staying still too long that he realizes exactly how much time has passed. Closing everything up, he heads upstairs to his flat. There he takes a long and relaxing shower before making himself a light dinner.
As he settles at the small table in his kitchen, he wonders if Sherlock would like the simple fruit, veggies, and chicken mixed together and spread over rice. Perhaps he could make the younger man dinner some time. Of course, if he does, he will probably have to make dinner for Sherlock's minder as well, that's not a problem he has gotten along with him so far.
Sighing, he turns his mind away from that for a few minutes, deciding he will spend the evening researching new medical improvements in his fields.
Hours are spent at his computer, diligently studying everything he can find and taking notes on the things he thinks would be useful or he wants to look further into. He does this at least twice a month, giving his lists to the head secretary to look into and find more information on. Since she can hear, she often does the correspondence with the hearing world, and often works as a translator for him when he is out of the office for training sessions since many are not set up for the ease of a deaf person, even a lot of the ones that are about how to help deaf people.
When he is finally done, he stretches, taking his time to work all the kinks out of his body from sitting still so long.
Glancing at the clock, he decides to make himself a late night snack before taking a shower and going to bed. If he can't sleep, which he thinks will probably be a problem since he is wide awake, he'll do some of the stretches and exercises.
His snack is nothing more than two cups of tea, vegetables and dip, and a few biscuits.
The shower following gets him to relax enough to go to bed and fall asleep within minutes of laying down.
The nightmare strikes not long after he sinks into his dream state.
Daddy was drinking again, he had started early, before mum even got home and was getting angrier and angrier with every drink he had. Every time his daddy saw him, items were thrown in his direction, most barely missing him.
When his mum got off work and home, he had watched in horror as she was thrown repeatedly against whatever object was closest.
In his nightmares, his mum isn't the only one, and he wakes up gasping as he feels the pain of being tossed against a wall like a doll, his bones breaking and pain exploding through him.
Sitting up, he rubs one hand against his face tiredly, glancing at the clock. It's only five am, he should still be asleep. However he knows he will not go back to sleep any time soon. Since it's sunday he decides to spend the day relaxing and letting his mind drift from topic to topic. He ends up spending far more time then he wants thinking about the past and the nightmare, but he knows if he doesn't deal with it now it will just make things harder for him later, so that's what he does.
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