John had almost drifted to sleep when the knocking began.
“John.” Tat-tat-tat. “John.” Tat-tat-tat.
“Mmmnnn,” he managed, then forced his eyes open. “Yeah?”
“Are you asleep?”
“Not anymore.” John ran a hand over his eyes and stifled a groan. Visions of being hauled out of bed in the middle of the night for a case flitted across his mind. It wouldn’t be the first time.
The door clicked open and Sherlock peered through, pale face barely visible in the dim light of the corridor beyond. He stared at John for a long moment, lips pressed tightly together.
“What is it?” John asked.
Sherlock didn’t respond. He pushed the door open enough to lean against the frame. His hair was madness, he hadn’t shaved in days, and a particularly tattered dressing gown hung loosely from his shoulders. His t-shirt was a little too small for his frame, and there was a strip of pale skin visible between the bottom hem and the low-slung waistband of the pyjama pants he wore.
His eyes, though – John recognized that look. A warm buzz began to settle in the back of his skull. He suddenly had a very good idea of where this was headed.
“You all right?”
Sherlock opened his mouth, but didn’t say anything. He just looked, his gaze locked on John’s face. John felt a pulse of electricity run down his spine. So it was one of those nights, was it? It had been a month, and John had started to wonder if that time after the Dreyer case was going to be the last.
John propped himself up on his elbows and smiled. “You want to come in?”
Sherlock closed the door behind him and leaned back against it. He let the dressing gown drop from his shoulders. John’s gaze followed it down to the floor, then slid back up to Sherlock’s groin.
Definitely going to be one of those nights.
John tugged his t-shirt over his head and tossed it to the floor. He stretched out on his back on the bed and slid a hand down over the front of his boxers. He looked up again to see the tip of Sherlock’s tongue drag across his lower lip.
John had to bite his cheek to stop himself from grinning. “Get over here.”
- @emmagrant01