Letters To Sherlock

by jessisnotdeadyet

These are the letters that John wrote to Sherlock during the time when he was 'dead'. He left the letters on his grave every week on a Wednesday, starting from one month after the Fall. Includes Johnlock, and these letters lead on to a fanfiction in story form rather than letters which I am currently working on. Mystrade included in such fanfiction. Rated M for later chapters.

19. 20 06 2012

Dear Sherlock,

You'll never believe what's happened!

So you remember that you started getting famous after you solved the Reichenbach mystery, and people started getting interested in you as a detective. And I don't think you would know, because you never used the internet for anything except research, but there were a lot of people who became quite obsessed with your cases and began... I think the technical word is "fangirling".

So I woke up on Saturday morning, quite late, and I got ready to go out, but when I opened the door I was ambushed by a crowd of screaming girls (and some boys). And then I noticed that they were all holding pieces of paper with letters on them. When they held them up, it said "WE BELIEVE IN SHERLOCK HOLMES". And all around, on the walls, on the windows, on the telephone boxes and signposts were coutless posters with drawings of you and Moriarty, saying "MORIARTY WAS REAL", and "SHERLOCK HOLMES WAS NOT A FAKE", with hashtags (you won't know what those are) like #believeinsherlock. It was absolutely unreal.

Because I thought that the whole world had given up on you, but these people showed me that I wasn't the only one that still believes. The support that this gives me is absolutely amazing and it has renewed my love for the world, even if I have to live in it without you.

Your John.