Text Messages Cannot Convey Feelings

Chapter Four

Still no word from Sherlock.

John's "relationship" would have to get more serious if there was any to come. Sherlock wouldn't come back from the dead for just any fling.

I really like them, Sherlock. JW

He couldn't rush it, though. Sherlock would have to believe that John was really falling in love. This wasn't a play, it wasn't Romeo and Juliet. People didn't really fall in love at first sight.

Their hand is so warm. JW

That would set Sherlock off. John Watson, actually holding someone's hand. Not trying to get off with them, trying to get close to them.

This really was a genius plan.

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This really was a terrible plan.

Sherlock was dead. Sherlock had always been dead, and he always would be dead. Even if he wasn't, he wouldn't care if John was falling in love. Why would he?

Even you would like them. JW

John put his phone down on the kitchen table. He hadn't been able to leave 221b. If Sherlock ever came back, and this wasn't where John was, he feared Sherlock wouldn't be able to find him.

That would be a fate worse than death.

He picked his phone back up.

They're smart, too. Very smart. JW

John needed Sherlock, plain and simple. He couldn't continue like this, moping about all the time. It wasn't healthy. He would know. He was a doctor.

He restrained himself from sending another message. Natural, it had to seem natural.

He waited two days.

It doesn't seen right, Sherlock, for my significant other not to meet my best friend. JW

Why had he said "significant other?" Just "girlfriend" would have sufficed. Maybe significant other sounded more serious.

That was what John told himself.