watsonshoneybee: Chapter 7 is up: Cold Feet! Here’s an excerpt! “They’re stil
watsonshoneybee:Chapter 7 is up: Cold Feet! Here’s an excerpt! “They’re still identical,” Sherlock smirks when he’s done, rinsing his sponge one last time and going over to give John a kiss. “They’re not going to just spontaneously change on us.”John pokes him in the ribs. “I know. I just like to look.” Sherlock hums his agreement and holds out his hand for it, but John folds the ring back into the clutch of his fist and then slides it into his pocket. “Think I’ll hang onto it until tomorrow,” he says, dodging Sherlock’s reach for it and laughing. “Just one last night and tomorrow you can have it back. As husbands.”Sherlock wrinkles his nose—he doesn’t especially like the idea of going a night without it, but John looks pleased with the idea, with the symbolism of it, and he agrees just to see the smile spread across John’s face. “All right,” he says, holding out his palm again, and John’s own ring drops into it. “As husbands.”John’s ring is smaller and warm from having been on his finger, and Sherlock closes his hand around it but doesn’t quite want to put it away into his pocket just yet. He can remember standing just here, Christmas morning, standing precarious on the edge of a yes or a no and all the risks that stood in that. He can remember seeing John standing in the sitting room waiting for him, surrounded by the life they built together, and wanting desperately to solidify that life into a promise to last forever. He can remember looking up and seeing John’s eyes on him, only ever on him, and knowing, more certainly than he has ever known anything, that he could ask for everything and not be turned away.Read it on AO3! -- source link
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