fic: tell me we're dead and i'll love you even more

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Title: tell me we're dead and i'll love you even more

Rating: R
Word Count: 5000 words
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes(/Joan Watson) (apparently one sided and unrequited)

Warnings/Topics:self-harm, masochism, (and the lines between those two being blurred), drug abuse/addiction, heavy discussion of suicide, explicit discussion of mental health issues, (bipolar disorder), and sectioning/enforced drug rehab, physical child abuse, and something which is not at all a rape but has a rape narrative within it. Also: death. Lots of death. 

Summary: A Gothic au, but canon - as it exists - compliant. Here is a city, and here is man, and here is what he sees; no, it's nothing like what you see, but not in the way that you think.