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[consultantsson]

...What do you mean I need "actual" parenting? The hands-off approach works just fine.

I have the freedom to do whatever I want and my parents don't get involved. What's bad about that?

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[laughingalltheway]

Oh, oh yes exactly that. See, I've always thought the system problematic, limiting, you know, children trapped inside without freedoms. Go free, run wild, explore all the little dark places, won't you? Explore, be free, and hope you never find out what really is, ah, bad why don't you? Hah, hah ha hah!

[consultantsson]

I live at a famous detective agency, I know what 'bad' really is.

[laughingalltheway]

The, ah, police said that too, you know. Just think of everything you've yet to learn.

[consultantsson]

I don't know about you, but I consider a bomb strapped to my wrist to be pretty bad.

[laughingalltheway]

Well that's hardly the worst place it could be. It doesn't take much to, well, strap something there.

[consultantsson]

What about being trapped on a plane with no auto pilot, with a missing engine, the landing strip is on fire and there's not enough fuel to get to the nearest airport because f some idiot knocked the switch to combine the tanks and most of it was lost when the engine fell off?

Oh, and both the pilot and co-pilot accidentally ingested cyanide.

[laughingalltheway]

Well now you've just went and gone boring on me. Sure it'll be flashy but that's quick. A little poof and a boom and, hah, they'll all be in bits.

[consultantsson]

...The goal was to land the plane safely, not kill everyone.

[consultantsdoctor]

Right and that's exactly why you've got a head injury, got shot and god knows what else.

[Though John does not like the idea of being called mom.]

[consultantsson]

None of that could be helped-I'm a detective. There are risks involved.

[ But he'd make such a great mom :> ]

[consultantsdoctor]

And why you run around unsupervised and can't even listen to Sherlock when he tells you to do something?

[That's completely besides the point. :|]

[consultantsson]

That's... not... I was going to listen... but then something came up.

[ :D ]

[consultantsdoctor]

Something?

[Go on, he's listening.]

[consultantsson]

I had to go look for a friend.

[inventedconsultant]

Even after I told you precisely what had occurred.

[consultantsson]

Hattori's had close calls before. I-I had to be sure.

[consultantsdoctor]

A friend?

[consultantsson]

h-he... got himself killed. [ Like an idiot and this is really not a subject he wants to talk about-so side stepping that. ]

But! That was the only time!

[lapels]

I believe people would consider that freedom to be the problem.

[consultantsson]

Trust me, it's more trouble if they do get involved.

[lapels]

Is that so?

[consultantsson]

They kidnapped me to prove a point. Everyone is far happier with them being in a completely different country than I am.

[lapels]

Ah.

That's unusual.

[ No really who does that, what. ]

[consultantsson]

[ His parents. They are the worst. ]

Unusual, immature and careless.

[lapels]

Incredibly so. Although you might benefit from having proper parenting from people who are far more... sensible.