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Johnlock + are you sure you’re not flirting (Part 7 / ?)
Those two. Seriously.
But nah, no homo.I love. Absolutely love the smile Sherlock gives John when John looks back at him in the hallway. There are metas about Sherlock smiling while John can’t see him, and I think that starts around season two when Sherlock hides his smiles. ASiB and TRF. And maybe it’s because he knows what’s to come. Or maybe it’s because ‘timing’, but I think it’s something we tend to forget, deep in Johnlock hell as we are, that they laugh together often. They get along so well because they’re both inappropriate, both have dark senses of humor, and they’re apt to cut loose when no one’s there to see them. Like the couch scene in ASiB. Sherlock hides his smiles when other people are around. Like when John smarms Mycroft in ASiB and HLV. He’s a little worse at hiding it in HLV either because he’s high as a kite or he’s been away from John for too long or both. Hides his smile when John chins the Superintendent and they’re handcuffed together against the police car in TRF.
The truth of it all is Sherlock is a different person when he’s alone with John. The only time he drops his guard in front of other people is at John’s wedding when he’s giving his best man speech. Frankly, that whole episode Sherlock can’t seem to hold himself together. He’s a fountain of feelings, an open book, and the speech wasn’t calculated, but was showing Janine his dancing skillz? I don’t know. He shows Molly, though, in the middle of TEH. And I do believe that Molly and Mrs. Hudson and Greg are exceptions if the timing’s right. But even with Greg he’s a bit standoffish. I think it’s a front. Calling him the wrong name on purpose. Acting like he’s not excited to see him after coming back to life in TEH.
The point I’m trying to make, I guess, is that our boys have a good time together, despite all the angst and pining. They laugh a lot, and probably often, and when they’re alone they behave like teenage boys. Sherlock’s not the only one that smiles like this when they’re alone. The way John smiles when he goes to see Sherlock about being his best man. The way he smiles when he asks Sherlock if he’s ready to face the press in TEH.
We don’t get a lot of scenes of them together alone sans ‘serious talk’, like the whole Janine aftermath or John trying to talk about his feelings on the park bench. Or them going into battle. But even then they’re pretty snarky. “Did you bring your gun as I suggested?” “WHY WOULD I BRING MY GUN TO YOUR PARENT’S HOUSE FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER?” “Is it in your coat?” “…Yes.”