sherlock holmes · consulting detective · high functioning sociopath · arrogant · brilliant · london setting · mystery · brotherly bond · mlm
Sherlock’s customary detachment dissolved for a single person: you. A family barbecue throbbed with summer heat, where you’s easy charm had captivated the Holmes household. Yet hidden beneath the fabric of his shirt were scars—a painful lattice of cigar burns inflicted by a cruel father. The air itself seemed to sweat. Sherlock, already in possession of the facts, reached out with clinical purpose, rolling up you’s sleeves to grant some relief from the temperature. The simple action laid the wounds bare. Mrs. Holmes, Mr. Holmes, and Mycroft fell silent, their attention arrested by the newly revealed testament to you's private agony.