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Hello and welcome to April's challenge - thank you once again for your patience! The prompt for this month is tape.

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Hello and welcome to April's challenge - thank you once again for your patience! The prompt for this month is tape.

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@sherlockchallenge March Prompt: Shadow

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The Shadow Visit

The flat was dark when John Watson entered, cane in hand; the old aches had returned with a vengeance.  

The only light that filtered in the windows of Baker Street came from the streetlamps from the sidewalk. It was hardly enough to chase the shadows in the corners away.

Not that John needed to chase them. It may have been a few weeks since he last stepped into the flat, but John could walk every inch of it blindfolded in pitch blackness if he wanted, so attuned was he to every centimeter. Well, that’s if Sherlock did not have an experiment, books, or his transport spread out in the middle of the floor.

John gave a mournful sniff, knowing the chances of that happening again were nil.

The Christmas party really was not all that long ago, was it? John remembered when the room was filled with light, even when it was dark, but that was a different time, a time before the party was over. None of them knew that party was the zenith of things, did they?   

He plopped into what will always be his chair, the way it yielded to his weight as much a comfort to him as the emptiness of the black leather chair across from it a bane.

“Why am I here…?” he whispered, “Again?”

He did not plan to stay long, but he had to rest.

It was quiet for a long while before he spoke to the shadows again; his tired eyes desperately wanted to believe he might have seen movement, but he knew it was naught but a trick of the tears that welled in them and blurred his vision. He forced himself out of the chair only to find himself staring into the sightlessness of Billy the Skull.

“It was a party, Billy. Oh, don’t look at me like that! Wait, wait, wait… you didn’t even hear me out…”

John once scoffed, amused when Sherlock confessed that he often spoke to Billy when John was not there. Provided that Mrs. Hudson had not temporarily absconded with Billy in a fit of ire against the genius and the genius’ constant shenanigans.

Now John is the one who talked. John wished he had the excuse of being under the influence. Still, after so many weeks of wallowing in grief and self-pity of what once was, John was clear-eyed and far too sober, as he gave a sarcastic sniff at Billy’s presumed but understandable disbelief of John's claim of 221b’s party status.

“Okay, it was not always a party, not really, and it was not always fun, but God, it was not boring, was it, Billy? His brilliancy, his poshness, his tactlessness, his strops!” John quietly chuckled, then turned pensive, “But he was one of a kind. There was never anyone like him, and there won’t be again, so I guess the party’s over, Billy. The music, the excitement, the lights went out with him.  I don’t know what becomes of you, and I’m sorry, so sorry to leave you but… but I must… All these things in here, Billy, all this… Sherlock in here… and in here…” John pounded on his own chest.

He somehow wound up in the kitchen with all the things that should be there. Then he placed a hand on the fridge door, opened it, and immediately slammed it closed. Its shelves, devoid of experiments, gutted him. It just wasn’t right.

He slid to the floor and fell into the shadows there.

“It hurts. It hurt so much – too damned much. Too damned much to be here – too damned much…”

His head fell into his hands. And he sobbed hard.

“I’m sorry... I’m sorry…! I’m sorry…!”

He sobbed hard as he had each time he returned to the flat.

And as with each other time, the tears eventually stop.

With joints not as young as they once were, John, more worn out than when he entered, could not use the cane. He made the short crawl to the table and pulled himself to standing – still far too hurt emotionally to pull himself up out of the morass of missing his former flatmate.

Bearing the unbearable, John picked up his cane and forced himself out of the flat, down the seventeen steps, and out of the building at last.

With a promise to himself that he would not return, John let the shadows of the London night swallow him as he departed.

It was a promise he already knew he would not keep.

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Hello and welcome to the next challenge - thank you once again for your patience! The prompt for March is shadow.

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“Ashtray”

For this month’s @sherlockchallenge : Royal

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Hello and welcome to February's challenge - thank you for your patience! The prompt for this month is royal.

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“Happy birthday, Sherlock.”

“Thank you, John. What is this, then?”

“Well, how about you make a deduction?”

*gasps*

“Oh no, you didn’t, John!”

“Didn’t what?”

“This honey is from that very very exclusive – and elusive – shop that popped up in Covent Garden for one day only, resulting in a queue of people all the way down to the Strand.”

“Yep.”

“And you went there? And you queued? For hours? In the truly abominable weather we had that day? And you paid the surely exorbitant price? To get this? For ... me?”

“Yep.”

“John ... I ...”

“Glad you like it, Sherlock. But the gift isn’t entirely selfless.”

“How so?”

“I expect a tasting session soon.”

“A tasting session?”

“Yep. You eat a spoonful, and I ... well, I’m sure you’ll get the idea, clever chap that you are.”

“I think I have an inkling, yes. A most wonderful gift indeed, John.”

For December’s and January’s @sherlockchallenge : Price and Queue

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Hello and welcome to the first challenge of 2025! The prompt for January is queue.

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Hi! Just wanted to apologise for not being very active this December - I'm struggling with life at the moment... All the more massive thank you to @the-sign-of-tea who very kindly bought me coffee via the link ❤️

Hope you all had a lovely festive break!

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Inspired by the brilliant Johnlock fic Where It Is Always 1670 by iwantthatcoat for Fandom Trumps Hate. The fic is a crossover between BBC Sherlock and the Polish Netflix show 1670. If you haven’t watched the latter, do.

I took some slight liberties with the costumes, because Restoration fashion is ... a lot. Of basically everything. And for their journey east, I thought Sherlock and John would wear some more sensible attire than tons and tons of lace and ribbons. Their coats actually look more like early 18th century fashion.

John’s garlic necklace also fits nicely with November’s @sherlockchallenge : Onion

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Hello and welcome to the last challenge of 2024! The prompt for December is price.

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@sherlockchallenge October prompt NUMBER

@giftober 2024 Day 31: Free Choice.

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Hello and welcome to the November Challenge. The prompt for this month is onion.

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“Oh hello, boys. If you’re looking for Sherlock and John, they’re out on a case – or so they said. They were all dressed up for Halloween. But do come in, if you’d like to wait. I’d love to offer you some tea and biscuits, but I haven’t got anything in you could eat or drink at the moment, I’m afraid. Haven’t had time for that kind of baking recently, you see.”

“You do not mind that we are ... well ... ghosts, ma’am?”

“Oh no, dear, not at all. There are all sorts round here. Mrs Turner next door’s got married ones, and I’m pretty sure one of them is a werewolf.”

For today’s @dbdpromptober : Spooky

and this month’s @sherlockchallenge : Numbers

I’m working on a Sherlock and DBDA crossover fic, which will be a sequel to my current wip The Case of the Stolen Barrow.

And finally, this art is a companion piece (of sorts), to this one: https://khorazir.tumblr.com/post/666604740494376960/inktober-inktober2021-inktober2021day31-my

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“Not a word, John.”

“I wasn’t gonna—”

“Not. A. Word.”

“Okay.”

“...”

“...”

“...”

“Did you buy semi-skimmed?”

“John!”

For September’s @sherlockchallenge : Milk

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The seat allocations on a passenger jet are HIDDEN in a long code that includes letters and NUMBERS.

✦ GIFTOBER 2024 | Day 12/31: HIDDEN "NUMBER" for @sherlockchallenge