spoilers for 2x3 in the comments

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Stop overreacting.

Idiot.

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[napoleonofcrime]

Nope.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Not you.

[napoleonofcrime]

When have I ever overreacted to anything?

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Please. Your entire life is a series of overreactions.

[napoleonofcrime]

And yours, a series of underreactions.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Perhaps you merely don't matter as much as you think you ought to.

[doespostmortems]

Sherlock, it was h-hard to watch, really. Especially when people care.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Molly.

[He... owes her. So this time there's no flurry of brutal mockery.

Though he is biting the inside of his cheek.]

[notelegrams]

I'm afraid human sentimentality knows few rational deterrents.

Do try to remember psychological limitations when making your requests. It's only - efficient.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Don't scold, Mycroft, I'll be as ill-tempered as I please.

[notelegrams]

If you must sabotage your patience by assuming the average individual can master her emotions, far from me to stop you.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Or that they can hold their tongue?

[notelegrams]

I believe they say discretion is a virtue. I would go as far as saying, a strategy.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

[The most pointed of eyebrow arches. If John worked it out, Sherlock certainly has.]

[bestprofessional]

You're the idiot.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Really.

[bestprofessional]

What else were you expecting?

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Another version of you told me to expect to be punched.

[bestprofessional]

Yeah, well. Don't think I'm not considering putting a few rounds into you myself.


You just had to go and make everyone think that- [Pause.] Actually, I take that back, you're a bloody bastard, Sherlock Holmes.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Well, that's me. The lying, manipulative, fake.

[No, it doesn't hurt that Lestrade seems convinced, not even a little.]

[fearfulhand]

That's what they tend to do.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

I suppose the nature of the hobby tends to attract the over-dramatic.

[fearfulhand]

Unsurprising, given that the majority of them are women.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

...mine is a gender studies major, and would like to pause briefly to rub it in that you're fictional and probably going to die in the next episode, whenever it comes out.

[fearfulhand]

Different 'canon', but thanks anyway. Mine would like to point out that I'm the scum of the earth, but I figured you could deduce that anyway.

[He laughs.]