July 14 - Healing

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Title: Healing

Author: Pompey

Universe: ACD

Rating: G

Warnings: none

Word count: 100

Summary: The worst part of an injury is the healing.

Prompt: July 14 - Sometimes it's the little pesky things that ruin your day.

A/N: This is a sequel to my July 13 story but it definitely works as a stand-alone.

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The first fortnight after his initial injury lived in Watson’s memory as only a morphine-blurred haze of vague pain, careful sips of liquids, and even more careful breathing. Holmes had remained in the inn with him the entire time, for travel with so many badly broken ribs was too risky. 

By the end of it, they were both thankfully back in Baker Street. The soft tissue wound on his back had healed, the worst of the bruises were fading, and the pain was bearable with salicylic acid.

Yet one infernal, incessant symptom remained unresolved: the deep-seated itch of knitting bone.