Waxing Prometheus - Amy Reads and Stresses
Sherlock thinks of himself as Icarus, beautiful and foolish, rugged ambition and the desire to burn. Flown too close to the sun, they say as they watch him fall, wings ripped appart. Cocaine made a good substitute for crisped feathers. Nothing felt quite like flying as being high. Nothing felt quite as burning as falling of a roof.
Moriarty was made of wax was the fire was the sun.
Sherlock was the angel, fallen, demonic and useless and flightless.
John thinks of Sherlock as Prometheus. Beutiful, bitter, brilliance made out of spite and superiority and the most powerful of loves Earth had ever known. Moriarty was death, was rot was the eagle on a cliff.
Sherlock was real fire, gifted as a secret to mortal foolish soldier John. Sherlock Holmes, real Prometheus, inventor of sacrifice in the name of Watson. The source of John's faith, larger than life and creator of men. Heaven knew John had been but a shell, empty and cracked, before Sherlock William Scott Holmes.
At dawn, beneath bed sheets, sweating and devoted to each other, John would whisper prayers on Sherlock's lips, speaking words of Hercules and menacles broken by his own hands. The detective would be silent, basking. Come morning he would discard the mantle of hero in John's name and grow back his waxy, broken wings.
Sherlock knew himself a fallen dreamer.
John knew him as his creator.
On the other side of the city, Mycroft knew names didn't matter. Sherlock, once blessed, had fallen for a mortal man. His gifts belonged to Earth now. Olympus would forget him, in time.
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