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dear_mun2012-03-09 04:58 am
on_your_nerves) wrote in dear_mun2012-03-09 04:58 am
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On Apping to [trans_9] (Reichenbach spoilers in comments)
Was the username change absolutely necessary? This is internet roleplay, not the planning of an amusement park. Giving us both a theme is ridiculous.
Furthermore, I suggest you shelve your plans with your friend of having John keep a spray bottle constantly on hand on the ship. I know your level of intelligence probably precludes you from managing even the most basic of observations, but I'm not a cat. It's undignified, it's not going to work, and I resent the idea that I need John following me around everywhere to keep me in line.
In fact, you should both stop referring to him as my "wrangler" altogether.
All this fuss over whether or not I'm going to start some sort of diplomatic incident is entirely unwarranted. They need detectives for the war effort, don't they?
I'll just be myself and everything will be fine.
SH
Furthermore, I suggest you shelve your plans with your friend of having John keep a spray bottle constantly on hand on the ship. I know your level of intelligence probably precludes you from managing even the most basic of observations, but I'm not a cat. It's undignified, it's not going to work, and I resent the idea that I need John following me around everywhere to keep me in line.
In fact, you should both stop referring to him as my "wrangler" altogether.
All this fuss over whether or not I'm going to start some sort of diplomatic incident is entirely unwarranted. They need detectives for the war effort, don't they?
I'll just be myself and everything will be fine.
SH
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[The words register almost like a physical force. John rocks back just slightly on his heels, his jaw slackens just a little, his eyebrows fly up as he blinks, and dozens of other small tells that Sherlock undoubtedly registers almost instantaneously betray his surprise. It's hard not to be surprised, though -- John can count on his fingers the number of times he's heard Sherlock say "sorry" or "I apologize". John had (sometimes, when Sherlock was being particularly impossible) wondered if he had 'deleted' those words from his vocabulary. He'd heard him use the words sincerely only twice -- once to Molly at Christmas, and once on the roof. This makes three.]
[Distantly, he feels himself plugging the other thing Sherlock had said into the 'answer' slot for the question he'd been worrying over since the roof: how had Moriarty made Sherlock jump? He'd known that the madman had done it somehow, but by the time he'd been in any shape to check the roof, Moriarty had been long gone. It's not all of the answer, he'll have to get that out of Sherlock at some point, but it's at least it's simplest form.]
Thank you. Apology accepted.
[He tries to put the same sincerity of emotion into those words as Sherlock did into his; because the only other option is going for another hug, and they'd already agreed that wasn't an option.]