Even the sweetest characters get frustrated with their players after a while.

[thewomanwhocounts]

 So let me get this straight:

First you were excited because I had a happy sex life, and now you're happy that my engagement didn't work? So you want me to... have sex, but not be in an actual relationship? Or was it that you just didn't like Tom?

Speaking of Tom, he wasn't 'useless'! Just because you didn't see much of him doesn't mean that he wasn't a very lovely man. And just because we broke it off doesn't mean he turned out to be a sociopath after all! Do you even know what that word means?

And for your information, while we're on the subject of men, I am over him. It was just uncomfortable watching him with that Jeanine woman because, you know. It was. John was clearly uncomfortable. So can we please stop talking about it?

Lastly, no, I don't know how he's back, but if he is, it's something Sherlock's going to have to deal with, and I'll help him if I can. I always help Sherlock. Yes, the slapping was helping. No, it wasn't funny. At least pretend to be mature once in a while, okay?

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[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[Sherlock rubs the cheek that got slapped multiple times.]

I am still grateful you didn't have a ring on. And on reflection, I'm glad you care. I just wish people would believe me when I say "It was for a case!" I'm not an addict.

As to how he's back, that's easy: James Moriarty had a brother named James Moriarty. He clearly didn't come from a very imaginative family.

[Gotta love ACD's sense of continuity XD]

[thewomanwhocounts]

[She looks slightly sheepish at that. But just slightly.]

Of all the times to comment on me no longer being engaged, that was not it. You were deflecting, Sherlock. That usually means that there's more going on than you'd like the rest of us to know.

[And she just gives him a Look at that, because seriously, Sherlock?]

And here I would have thought you'd come up with some sort of twin theory, or a copycat, or something along those lines.

I need to update my icons, but waiting until after it airs in the US.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Because I didn't want everyone to know I was going after Magnussen. They all would have tried to stop me.

[Sherlock just gives her a look that says "Puh-leez" in return.]

Truth is infinitely stranger than fiction.

Yeah, I have more spoilery ones, but I'm not uploading those until most people are more caught up.

[thewomanwhocounts]

Who in that room would have tried to stop you? [Aside from her. Because she's the only one of his friends that doesn't seem to have an addiction to danger.]

Not always, Sherlock. Remember, there's such a thing as being too clever.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Jim Moriarty was not clever. He discounted you and blew his brains out. What's clever about that?

[thewomanwhocounts]

[Oh. There might be a small smile at that first bit, even if it fades when he mentions the fact that Jim- Moriarty had killed himself.]

I was talking about you. You and your clever theories.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Oh.

[Excuse him while he tries to comprehend a compliment, considering all that has happened recently.]

The problem with that, is first you have to rule out the impossible. It's not impossible for Jim to have a brother.

[He shrugs.]

Until that is ruled out, it is a possibility. At this point, that holds the balance of probability over Jim surviving blowing his brains out.

[you_dont_work_alone]

I think you should slap him more often.

[thewomanwhocounts]

You think he should get hit more often in general, I bet.

[you_dont_work_alone]

In general, yes, but I think it means more when it's one of his friends, and I can't be the one hitting him all the time.

[thewomanwhocounts]

I seem to remember you hitting him quite a bit. Both before and after he returned from the dead. It's sort of an abusive relationship.

[you_dont_work_alone]

....

[She makes it sound so bad.]

He started it.

[thewomanwhocounts]

... I think the phrase you're looking for is, "He was asking for it." Because yes, yes he was. If not literally, then just about.

[silverfoxy]

Really wish I could have seen you slap him.

[thewomanwhocounts]

For being his friends, we certainly have an odd way of showing it.

Adorable icon.

[silverfoxy]

Well he deserved it, didn't he? Being on drugs again, no matter what the reason. Bit surprised John didn't head-butt him again, or something.

I had to upload at least one of the two of them. c:

[thewomanwhocounts]

... he did deserve it. But given that you tried to record him while he was in the hospital with a bullet wound, I think you take some kind of perverse pleasure in him being in pain. It's like the morning after the stag night all over again.

<3

[silverfoxy]

[He snorts dryly, shrugging a shoulder.] You know how he is. It's fun to bring him down from his high horse sometimes.

[thewomanwhocounts]

You're just taking pot shots now! [She sounds more amused than upset, really, as much as she knows she shouldn't.]

[propergenius]

It was for a case! [Why can't you people understand this?]

[thewomanwhocounts]

Sane people don't go that far for a case, Sherlock! [Yes, she's still angry. She'd thought he'd cleaned up his act!]

[propergenius]

Well, I never claimed to be sane, did I? [He had cleaned up his act. Case, Molly, case!]

[thewomanwhocounts]

Sherlock, I'll accept that you're too stubborn to ever admit that you're in the wrong, but do you at least understand why I'm this angry with you?

And don't you dare bring up the lack of a ring this time!

[propergenius]

It's not like I'm addicted again, am I? My dear brother and my... fanclub made sure of that. And surely Janine would have noticed, since she had been staying over all that time.

Tom was never right for you, Molly. If I bring up the ring again, it's only because I am genuinely pleased the engagement is off.

[thewomanwhocounts]

It's easy to fall back into old patterns. That's why it's best to break things off cleanly and never look back.

[She's a little taken aback by his comment, so it takes her a moment to get a response together.] Why does everyone seem to think Tom and I were never going to work out? Because he's normal?