"Yes. Yes she does." He didn't want to be cruel to John, he loved the man. But he had to be honest with John. They had talked about being honest not long after they became mates.

"I do not care about either of their political aspirations or games of intrigue and sabotage. I don't care about an alliance between Demons and Vampires. The alliance wouldn't last anyways." He almost spat out the words. "I will not be a pawn in their games. I would be happy if I never had to see either of them ever again." He had never met John's mother yet, and he knew that there was no way that he could avoid Mycroft for any length of time, so it was a pipe dream, but it had been nice to at least say.

Sherlock curled back up on himself, He just wanted the whole fucking world to go away.

Well, except for John.

Never John.