Okay, shut up Sherlock. Shut up. The first time we met. The first time we met, you knew all about my sister, right?
I love this moment - it’s like the only true, honest moment between them. Even though I think Sherlock was channeling a lot of very REAL pain into FAKE words (there’s a lot of debate about this) - this moment, here, was when they were just THEM. If Sherlock was acting the whole rest of the phone call, this moment was unchoreographed. This moment was when he let his facade slip down for just a second while he graced John with a rare, genuine smile.
And John’s “you could”…so earnest, so heartfelt. Such a simple way of communicating to Sherlock, “No, shut up, you idiot. I believe in you. You hear me? *I* believe in you. Fuck the rest of them.” And Sherlock just can’t help it: he has to smile. It doesn’t matter that John’s expressed “brilliant” or “extraordinary” in every variant of the English language, as he so dismissively notes in “Scandal.” It still *means* something to him to hear John say it. To *know* that even as Sherlock pours lie after lie into his ear, that John still believes in him. And I think that’s why we see him falter for a moment, searching, trying to recover from that one slip-up. But it was there, and John saw it and heard it. After the horror that comes after that, it is no wonder that he stands with spine straight before his best friend’s grave and firmly insists that he was the best man and the most human human being he’d ever known, and that “no one will ever convince me that you told me a lie so…there.”
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Reblogged from paperlings February 27th, 2012 5,357 notes #The Reichenbach Fall #Sherlock and John #the smile that will sustain him for a long time to come
