She said she was sorry

by Guinevere81

The victims of abusive relationships are not always fragile little women who are unable to defend themselves. John ends up taking more than he should from his new girlfriend. Sherlock initially finds it amusing but gets increasingly concerned as things progress. I suspect the chapters will end up longer and longer, they start off short.

3. Chapter 3

Two weeks later John arrives home with a slight bruise across his cheek and Sherlock knows that something is wrong. Not just wrong, very wrong, and he is fairly sure that the root of the problem is John's new girlfriend and the strange proximity of John's dates with her and the mysterious appearance of his new and frankly unpleasant injuries. The fact that John claims that his bruised cheek is due to a collision with a door at work only encourages Sherlock's deductions. Walked into a door, John's excuses aren't even inventive.