On tonight's episode

[i_favour_you]

Yes, thank you. I appreciate your knowledge that my very existence has been shattered and "terrible terrible things" are going to happen in the very near future.

Very enlightening. Very helpful.

Have I mentioned that I don't like you? I think we should make this clearer as days go on.

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[womanwhobeatyou]

You may despise the little mundanes, but here you are still, Sherlock.

[i_favour_you]

Helpful as ever.

I suppose you'll be the first to say you "called it".

[womanwhobeatyou]

Hm, not suggesting I have you on your knees. You must be in mental disarray.

And what can I say, I know myself.

[i_favour_you]

Apparently far better than I know you. There are things I...did not think you capable of. Not from a case of inability, just...decency.

[womanwhobeatyou]

Oh? Then perhaps you should have listened to your gangly counterpart. I'm sure he'd tell you I'm capable of any sort of betrayal.

[i_favour_you]

Perhaps one could consider him wiser than I in this case.

Or perhaps I pegged you as someone else.

[womanwhobeatyou]

You say that as if the possibilities are mutually exclusive.

[i_favour_you]

Oh? Perhaps he's wiser and I thought you better than you are.

[womanwhobeatyou]

It's human nature to think better of the dead, isn't it?

[formersurgeon]

Sherlock, I can't imagine what you're going through right now. But who you are, what you do? None of that has changed.

[i_favour_you]

Oh, except that it has. Completely.

[formersurgeon]

Tell me how.

[i_favour_you]

The one person I---

But she's alive and---

[formersurgeon]

The one person you loved. And her death was a lie. I know. That's not all of you, Sherlock. She's not all of you. And that lie is terrible, and did terrible things to you. But that doesn't change the work. The things you've done since then. It doesn't change who you are.

I'm not saying this is going to be easy, by any stretch of the imagination. But you're going to get through it. I believe in you.

[i_favour_you]

At least someone believes in Sherlock Holmes.

[formersurgeon]

More people believe in you that you think. And none of this changes how I see you. What you are to me.

[i_favour_you]

What it does change is how I see myself, Watson.

Somehow that is even more devastating than losing the way you see me.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

If the Americans wanted to make the story interesting, they would make Irene and Moriarty be the same person.

[This Sherlock has an issue with tact.]

Otherwise, it was boring, dull, predictable...

[i_favour_you]

Actually, you're wrong. Primarily because that would be absolutely insulting to me. And her.

[He narrows his eyes, just slightly.]

I don't believe I asked for your opinion.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

I don't see why it would be so insulting to have Irene as a criminal master-mind - well, except for the fact that you should have seen it coming. At least it would be a twist on the story no one saw coming. More entertaining for the audience that way.

[As if it matters if his opinion was asked for or not - they do have that much in common. The 'eye thing' doesn't really work on him, sorry.]

[i_favour_you]

No, there's a different reason as to why she died. Why she---pretended to die.

She was far too stunned at my arrival.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Perhaps she's a good actor. I mean, that would be one of the skills Moriarty would have to possess.

[Sherlock's just exploring all possibilities here. Besides, his mun is far too intrigued by the possibility of that sort of situation and what it would do to any Sherlock.]

[i_favour_you]

No.

I refuse to believe it. She cares about people too much. Far too optimistic.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Or maybe you're in denial. The apparent death of those close to... people like us... makes us react strangely - we miss things.

[Sherlock is far too calm about all of this.]

[i_favour_you]

Oddly enough, I have been told the way I reacted to her death is something most people would consider normal.

Her apparent death. It's been eighteen months, I'm going to have to get used to that one.