Fic: Poinsettia
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viceindustriousTitle: Poinsettia
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes 2009
Pairing: Blackwood/Coward
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.
Summary: Coward is a hot house flower.
Word count: 100
Notes: Written for day seventeen of the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
adventchallenge. Prompt: Poinsettia. Sheepishly, just another drabble, but it has been a hectic day. Excuses, excuses I know.
Coward is a hot house flower, rare and vibrant.
There are things that do not naturally bud in his heart, empathy, conscience, fear. If he had been born outside the nobility, Blackwood suspects he'd have been broken at the stem before his fourteenth birthday. Growing wild, he would have given himself away too soon, gone for blood while his thorns were still soft.
Coward was cut and cultivated and trained to grow straight, trimmed into a decent mimicry of a civilized gentleman, stunted in winter sleep.
But Blackwood knows his true genus and he cannot wait to spur the quickening.
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes 2009
Pairing: Blackwood/Coward
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.
Summary: Coward is a hot house flower.
Word count: 100
Notes: Written for day seventeen of the
adventchallenge. Prompt: Poinsettia. Sheepishly, just another drabble, but it has been a hectic day. Coward is a hot house flower, rare and vibrant.
There are things that do not naturally bud in his heart, empathy, conscience, fear. If he had been born outside the nobility, Blackwood suspects he'd have been broken at the stem before his fourteenth birthday. Growing wild, he would have given himself away too soon, gone for blood while his thorns were still soft.
Coward was cut and cultivated and trained to grow straight, trimmed into a decent mimicry of a civilized gentleman, stunted in winter sleep.
But Blackwood knows his true genus and he cannot wait to spur the quickening.
