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SolarSystem · August 11, 2013 1:27 pm

SilverMoonDragonB wrote:
SolarSystem wrote:
besleybean wrote:
Doin't like seeing our boys fighting.
...but it's not a real badass fight, is it? And we all know that deep inside they love each other. Just like Irene said: Somebody loves Sherlock.
Which is why I love it, it's not really a fight...it's more like two best-friends rough-housing , and of course they do indeed love each other , even Irene notices that.

Right, it isn't really a fight. But at the same time John says things which he actually really means to a certain extent ("I always hear 'punch me in the face' when you're speaking...") but then again... his love for Sherlock overcomes these things. Otherwise he probably would have punched Sherlock several times already (and meant it!) - or he wouldn't even live in the same flat with him anymore.

tobeornot221b · August 11, 2013 1:50 pm

It's not only John ("I always hear 'punch me in the face'...") but also Lestrade: "I always feel like screaming when you walk into a room. In fact, so do most people." And though, he does put up with Sherlock. There has to be something about him that makes John and Lestrade stay with him...
Apart from being useful to them.

besleybean · August 11, 2013 1:54 pm

He's adorable.

Punch me in the face · August 11, 2013 2:02 pm

kittykat · August 11, 2013 2:24 pm

*THUD*

sj4iy · August 11, 2013 2:29 pm

Wow, that's an insanely creepy picture. He's like a wax floating head XD

SolarSystem · August 11, 2013 3:16 pm

tobeornot221b wrote:
It's not only John ("I always hear 'punch me in the face'...") but also Lestrade: "I always feel like screaming when you walk into a room. In fact, so do most people." And though, he does put up with Sherlock. There has to be something about him that makes John and Lestrade stay with him...
Apart from being useful to them.

I suppose he is a very fascinating person to be around. To see how his mind works must be really fantastic. At the same time he seems to be willing, at least occasionally, to question and second-guess his own behaviour. That can already be seen in ASiP with his "Not good?" and John's "Bit not good" when it comes to Rachel. I guess if he didn't give John the chance to be his moral compass, then Sherlock might eventually be intolerable for John. And for Lestrade as well, I guess.

DitzyDamnDaffy · August 11, 2013 4:24 pm

Punch me in the face wrote:

It's like he's been caught doing something he shouldn't by John...

besleybean · August 11, 2013 4:27 pm

Gorgeous.

SilverMoonDragonB · August 11, 2013 6:03 pm

DitzyDamnDaffy wrote:
Punch me in the face wrote:
It's like he's been caught doing something he shouldn't by John...

Mmmmmm *swooon - THUD*

And here's Sherlock intensely concentrating....

The eyes...they kill me *dies*

kittykat · August 11, 2013 6:10 pm

Nose crinkle!

SilverMoonDragonB · August 11, 2013 6:20 pm

kittykat wrote:
Nose crinkle!

I want so badly to smooch it!

DitzyDamnDaffy · August 11, 2013 6:23 pm

I wish that my eyes looked so beautiful. Mine are a boring dark brown colour.

SilverMoonDragonB · August 11, 2013 6:28 pm

That video was so adorable! I giggled the whole time

kittykat · August 11, 2013 6:38 pm

SolarSystem · August 11, 2013 7:55 pm

kittykat wrote:

He really should be ashamed of himself... smiling like that at John, at their first official dat.. uhm, meeting. Poor John never stood a chance, right?

SusiGo · August 11, 2013 7:59 pm

Thud. That's all I have to say. Who would not move in with him after that smile?

ancientsgate · August 11, 2013 8:09 pm

SilverMoonDragonB wrote:

Puuuuuuuuuuuuurple! *swoon - THUD*

Love the errant curl, mid-forehead. I could certainly do without the rats on his tie, though. *shiver*

ancientsgate · August 11, 2013 8:11 pm

besleybean wrote:
Doin't like seeing our boys fighting.

Fake fight, played for humor. And because Sherlock is a crazy lunatic, John knows it, and by god, if S was going to bash him in the face, he could give back exactly what he'd been given. Which Sherlock knew he would.... the crazy lunatic.

ancientsgate · August 11, 2013 8:14 pm

SilverMoonDragonB wrote:
Which is why I love it, it's not really a fight...it's more like two best-friends rough-housing , and of course they do indeed love each other , even Irene notices that.

I agree, it wasn't a fight per se. But I disagree that it was simple friends rough-housing. First of all, they're a little long in the tooth to be conducting a schoolyard barney [love that Brit expression] in the street. Sherlock picked that fake fight, only because he couldn't punch himself in the face and make it look real. And then John spared his pretty teeth, as Irene observed, so it still didn't look real, after all that..... she'd seen enough bruised faces, maybe even doled out more than a few herself, so she knew very well what she was seeing.