Advent Drabble 1 - Bang & Clatter
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earlgreytea68For starrla89
Sometimes John gets a wistful longing to close one hand around a baseball, to slip the other hand into a glove, and have the outdoors equal baseball, the way it did for most of his life. Sometimes he remembers how many years he spent viewing grass only as the canvas for the field, a background for the ball to pop against.
Sherlock never seems to miss baseball with the acuteness that attacks John…but always seems attuned to when that mood hits John, showing up with ball and glove and an invitation of studied casualness. “Care for a game of catch?”
Sometimes John gets a wistful longing to close one hand around a baseball, to slip the other hand into a glove, and have the outdoors equal baseball, the way it did for most of his life. Sometimes he remembers how many years he spent viewing grass only as the canvas for the field, a background for the ball to pop against.
Sherlock never seems to miss baseball with the acuteness that attacks John…but always seems attuned to when that mood hits John, showing up with ball and glove and an invitation of studied casualness. “Care for a game of catch?”
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Date: 2025-12-02 10:00 pm (UTC)Sometimes he remembers how many years he spent viewing grass only as the canvas for the field, a background for the ball to pop against.
Except when he was viewing grass as something to scatter over Sherlock's face while lying outside with him! I have a particularly vivid memory of this scene, it was charming.
Thank you for this lovely beginning, it's very nice to hear of Sherlock and John from this verse again.