Fic: The People That Change Our Lives 1/4

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Title: The People That Change Our Lives
Chapter One: A Deeper Part of the Mystery
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Wordcount: 5348 (this installment)
Rating: R
Characters: Sherlock, John, Lestrade
Genre: pre-slash, asexual!Sherlock, straight!John (yes that makes sense)
Warnings: None
Betas: A million thanks to impishtubist for encouragement and flailing and general awesomeness, to mortalasabee and Dragonfly for your outside eyes and for holding me accountable to my writerly duty to never do less than my best, and thesmallhobbit for Brit-picking.
Disclaimer: Sherlock belongs to John and England belongs to Mycroft and they all live together in a crooked little house where the mortgage is paid by Mssrs. Gatiss, Moffat, et al., and haunted by the disgruntled ghost of ACD. Ergo: please don't pay me for this.

Series Summary: It's nearly Christmas. One morning, shortly before John leaves Baker Street to go home for the holiday, John finds his friend in a rare communicative mood and learns more about Sherlock's past than he'd known before. This candid sharing continues as they text and email over Christmas, the barrier of space between them serving to break down other barriers each has constructed. Everything comes to a head when John returns home and they once more face the fact that, just as sharing a flat is not so simple as clearing a space in the fridge and going halves on rent, sharing a life is not so straightforward as sharing breakfast or long-buried secrets or even a bed
This is Book Two in the In Spite of All The Danger series

Prologue :: Comfort
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Chapter One :: A Deeper Part of the Mystery
In which Sherlock is in a sharing mood and John learns about his association with a young man named Victor Trevor, adding a new level of meaning to Sherlock's assertion that the Carl Powers case was where he began; Sherlock attempts to brew John the perfect cup of tea; Lestrade asks John's help on followup for a case and the two of them end up going for a Christmas drink.
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