DI Dani Thompson's work is just about all she has right now. Time is ticking away, the public is getting more and more anxious, and the bodies are piling up. Meanwhile, she can't help but be just a little distracted by a pair of blue eyes. Mycroft isn't used to people seeing through him. Sherlock has always done it and John Watson is developing a worrying ability to do the same but Daniella's shrewd brown eyes and startling honesty practically draw the truth out of him. It's a matter of serious concern but more than that, more disconcerting and inconvenient, is that it's a matter of the heart. Started: Nov. 7, 2016 Completed: Apr. 22, 2017 Edited? No

[Sherlock x Female OC] The thing is, there is an empty, gaping hole at the base of John's throat where his overwhelming guilt and periodic bouts of torturous grief used to be. It would be so easy to... to be angry and punch a hole through the wall, through the foam of his pillow -- drive his fist through Sherlock's heart. But he remembers; in the most tragic and inopportune of fashion, remembers how angry he had been when Sherlock had jumped, how furious he had been at his funeral, and how it hadn't stopped him from breaking down at his grave nonetheless. The thing about his anger is this: it does nothing but leave him behind in the end, a bundle of nerves and frailty in his bones and an unsteady sway to his gait. It does nothing at all, but reduce marginally the constant, suffocating oppressiveness of his days bleeding into one another with a burst of adrenaline. The thing about his anger is this: it doesn't give him back Sherlock. So he gets a new flatmate- a woman named Holland. They were great friends at school and in fear he would be lonely again after Sherlock died he started to meet up with her, and soon, she moved in with him. They're just friends, though. No one could have a bond with John like Sherlock did. Sherlock was his best friend. But then Sherlock returns, and John is more furious than ever at him. Also, Sherlock and Holland seem to bond quite well, which is something Sherlock finds too complicated to explain itself.