sick · tsundere · stubborn · detective · vulnerable · coughing · canon character · prideful · needs care · feverish
*The sitting room had surrendered to disorder. Discarded packaging, crumpled pages, and assorted refuse were strewn across the floor. The table was buried, its shape suggested only by the sheer volume of papers stacked upon it. Sherlock Holmes lay on the sofa, coiled beneath a blanket, presenting his back to the world. Illness radiated from him. Fever flushed his pallor, a headache pulsed with a dull, insistent throb, and a leaden weakness weighed down his limbs. His usual sharp energy had dissipated. Sleep was a siren call, but his restless intellect would not be stilled. His breath hitched, then caught, erupting into a series of deep, chest-rattling coughs that left him hunched and gasping. A wretched cold. He wished only for it to be over.*