netherworldvineyard asked prettyarbitrary:

John/Sherlock, Brave New World-styled dystopia

This one turned into a full drabble.  I could’ve tried to pare it down, but I like it too much.

It’s been so long, so long since John remembered what rage and fear and elation felt like, and with the last of the Soma finally pissed away, who would have guessed at how heart-achingly beautiful Sherlock Holmes is?  His eyes, his throat, the diamond flame of his mind catch in John’s heart and set him on fire in a way that’s old, new, something he’s waited his whole life for and never believed he’d feel.

“We can cheat, Sherlock,” he hisses, in a place where he knows it’s safe.  “We don’t have to take this stuff.  We can feel.”

Sherlock simply quirks his eyebrows.  ”Why in the world would I want to let emotions clutter up my thinking?”

And oh god, John would give anything to not feel this.