Fics like For the Sake of Prisoners

One of the elements of Sherlock Holmes that intrigues me - both in the ACD canon and the BBC series - is how Sherlock's disappearance and return are treated as no big deal. He disappears dramatically for significant periods of time, then swans back in as if he is completely unchanged by his time away. In the case of BBC, we know that Sherlock experienced psychological and physical trauma at least once, in Serbia. No matter how rational and logical a person you are, that has an impact. And watching your best friend - someone you live with, work with, have some sort of emotional connection with - fall to his presumed his presumed death is fucking traumatic as hell and while John's grief kind of gets addressed in canon, Sherlock's trauma gets entirely ignored. I wanted to explore what recovery might look like for them. Mary is a good person here, Irene has a relatively minor role at least in the third of the story written so far.

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