Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock POV, ambiguous Sherlock/John relationship (take it how you like)
Warnings: Slightly odd writing style.
Notes: The series two clips started a bit of a discussion over whether it's a good thing or not that Sherlock talks to John even when he's not there. This is my take on it.
Summary: Sherlock talks to John even when he's not with him.
I am making no money from this, all characters and ideas belong to their original creators, no harm intended.
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He's part of your life now. As if he always has been. Sounding board: much better than the skull. Lacks the avant-garde feel (Hamlet) but all 'round more practical.
Except when he isn't there. The skull is always there (Mrs Hudson finally returned it; it hasn't moved since) but it's not really the same. (He isn't just a skull trade-up. So much more).
You talk to him whenever you need to (you think better out loud).
Pass me a pen.
But how did the brother know?
No point me leaving if it's less than a seven. Not at this time in the morning.
It's not that you don't realise he's not there (you do, you can feel the lack of his physical presence) but you're so used to talking and him knowing, whatever, that your brain cancels out the understanding of distance between you.
(It shouldn't. Why does he disrupt scientific fact?)
You can feel the lack of physical presence acutely (close relationship. Inexplicable emotional bond. Need more data to fully understand) but his mental presence (a new voice in your head. Something with a semblance of morality. Couldn't be an external force but seems to be) meant that talking through a wall and attempting to talk over several hundred miles appears to have no difference in the eyes of physics, unless you concentrate on the fact that it should.