This is so completely lovely – so completely perfect – I don't know how to start expressing it.
The image of Sherlock and Rosie dog-spotting, complete with a field guide to dogs.
Sherlock watching not the woman go...but the dog go.
Someone mistaking John and Sherlock for a couple and John finally not feeling the need to reflexively correct the mistake.
This line: "He thinks he has, likely, always wanted some variation of this. He's learned to live with his inaction."
John worrying, of all things, that *Sherlock* wouldn't put up with him moving back in, that *Sherlock* is liable to find someone else in his life instead of John.
And then John GIVES SHERLOCK A DOG. Because this is a family that expresses love through dogs (though John himself may not yet have quite realized that fact consciously, at the point when he does it...)
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Date: 2017-06-12 02:25 am (UTC)The image of Sherlock and Rosie dog-spotting, complete with a field guide to dogs.
Sherlock watching not the woman go...but the dog go.
Someone mistaking John and Sherlock for a couple and John finally not feeling the need to reflexively correct the mistake.
This line: "He thinks he has, likely, always wanted some variation of this. He's learned to live with his inaction."
John worrying, of all things, that *Sherlock* wouldn't put up with him moving back in, that *Sherlock* is liable to find someone else in his life instead of John.
And then John GIVES SHERLOCK A DOG. Because this is a family that expresses love through dogs (though John himself may not yet have quite realized that fact consciously, at the point when he does it...)
This is beautiful, from start to finish.