LOOK at this fucking gorgeous masterpiece that I commissioned from @willietheplaidjacket. I’m crying, it’s so beautiful.
I asked her to illustrate one of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite fics, the Letters series, by @earlgreytea68 (I did get permission). Here is the excerpt, from the Letters, Resolved section, chapter 7:
John thought that he wasn’t sure he could ever get Sherlock to understand how humbled he felt by being given the gift of Sherlock the way he was with John, the way he was with no one else, Sherlock in all the vulnerable simplicity at the heart of his complexity, and John lifted his arms and tightened them around Sherlock, pressing him as close as he could get.
“What’s wrong?” asked Sherlock, surprised, wriggling a bit in the new grip.
“I am going to love you for the rest of our lives,” John promised him, roughly. “I’m going to make you laugh. I’m going to make sure you’re never bored. I’m going to keep you safe.”
Sherlock was silent for a moment beforeshaking off John’s grip just enough to pull himself up and align them so he could look down at John’s face. He spent a long moment just studying John, and then he repeated back, “I am going to love you for the rest of our lives. I’m going to make you laugh. I’m going to make sure you’re never bored. I’m going to keep you safe.”
John flickered a smile at him. “Well, that’s that then. All settled.”
The drawing is the bolded part. LOOOOK AT ITTTTTT.
I’m so fucking done, I don’t even know. The eye contact, my god. I’m a puddle.
Willie’s art is so freaking gorgeous it makes me tear up just looking at it.
