The moment Johnlock became canon.
I was just idly musing over Johnlock today, as one does, when a thought struck me.
If Sherlock’s structure is planned out in a 5-series arc as is often mentioned, how telling would it be if the stag night sequence, wherein John and Sherlock touch each other with affection (if not outright intent)…
bby, you so smart. And I agree with you entirely. That was the moment at which the Sherlock world shifted on it’s axis, and everything we’d been wondering and hoping and thinking about all this time came to a head and literally went…
I wonder if Sherlock even allowed himself to consciously think about John like that until that night. Like “Oh, shit, this impossible thing I want is actually maybe possible. Except he’s marrying someone else, and now my heart’s completely shattered.”
I think Sherlock had thought about it prior to that, but had never considered that John would actually reciprocate. I think he actually realised the depth and colour of his own feelings during the time John was angry at him after he came back.
He’d thought they’d be together again, like old times, and hadn’t thought much past that. I think when he was forced to, by John’s rejection, forced to think about renegotiating this relationship – that’s when light dawned for Sherlock. I don’t think he ever considered that John had been feeling the same way for two years before The Fall.
Not until this moment.
The curiousity with which he looks at John’s hand on him, the “What is he…? OH.” face is so apparent. He knew, he knew what John was trying to do.
Oh yes, he thought about it. I think I meant, like, he THOUGHT about it.
That was super articulate, I know.
And he reciprocated. HE RECIPROCATED.
Sherlock’s hand on John’s shoulder is so important and it doesn’t get near enough attention IMO.
