endless-analyses:

So while reading the ACD canon, I found a few quotes which caught my attention.

John:
‘He always apologized to me for putting me to this inconvenience.’

’..he usually terminated [his violin solos] by playing in quick succession a whole series of my favourite airs as a slight compensation..’

Sherlock:
“.. if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.”
John: “I shall never do that.”

Sherlock: “But I weary you with my hobby.”
John: “ Not at all.”

This shows how much Sherlock feared that John would end up disliking him. He always took care not to offend him, and to apologize again and again if he did. John’s replies were always:

“I shall never do that.”

“Not at all.”

Is it any wonder that Sherlock let him into his life? He was surprised each time when John complimented him instead of being weirded out by his eccentric ways. He probably never expected to find anyone who would accept him for who he was. So when John tells him that he would never get tired of the way he made his deductions, Sherlock actually flushes with pleasure.

John:
“My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them.”

This shows how much of a sensitive person Sherlock Holmes was underneath the mask of cold reason. He was never a person who did not care.. In fact, he was a smol baby person who cared deeply.