doctor, i'm bleeding out

Title: glass, tempered steel
Fandom: Sherlock
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 40,254
Characters/Pairing: John/Sherlock
Summary: How do you keep your omega safe when the biggest threat is yourself?
Omegaverse, Ragnarok Online fusion--though it's not necessary to have any knowledge of Ragnarok to read.
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters.
Author's Note: Hello and welcome to the most idfic of idfic. If you are looking for something of actual literary merit, I suggest one of the many other brilliant works in this fandom!
If you do not know what omegaverse is, I strongly suggest reading this primer first so you aren't in for any disturbing surprises. Please heed the warnings--the dubcon in here verges on noncon.
No prior knowledge of Ragnarok Online is needed to read this fic. You just know that it's an massive multiplayer online roleplaying game (like World of Warcraft but lamer) that I played in my teens and subsequently became nerdy enough to write 40k worth of fusion fanfiction about. Here are some helpful links for the uninitiated: these are the job classes with some of the major characters highlighted in red (if you played RO a while ago you'll notice that there's a new transcendent class), pecos are total rip offs of chocobos though they also rode gryphons, and here's the world map made by some private server that I based my locations off of.
This fic was initially written for Melody because she wanted pining John but then I bastardized it with omegaverse on Julia's insistence so now it's for both of them?? I'll have to write non-A/B/O pining John later. As always, I really wouldn't be able to get past the 3k mark without Julia's support so I am eternally grateful for her patience. ♥

Chinese translation provided by rosyrain
Another Chinese translation provided by Caroler
Spanish translation provided by albagaro

( Even the outskirt villages of Prontera are bigger than the tiny community that John has lived in for all his life. )