Disclaimer: nothing mine. Conan Doyle created the characters, BBC owns their most recent avatars, I play with them.

A.N. Ridiculously sappy teenlock. The author regrets nothing. (If you're reading my other works, However improbable will come soon, I promise; a bit later (metem)Psychosis.) I keep getting ideas that disregard the prompt sentence. Anyone interested in an oneshot Ancient Rome!Johnlock?

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Even at 15, John Watson and Sherlock Holmes are best friends. And when jerks like Sally ask why he sticks by the freak, John replies, "I'm never bored." The 'you are boring' is left implicit, but heard nonetheless. Sherlock keeps John on his toes. You never know where he'll lead. John will follow anyhow. Someone has to make sure Sherlock doesn't accidentally kill himself. (You should have seen him when he got obsessed with fireworks.)

When Sherlock, one lazy afternoon, tells him to stand up and close his eyes, John asks why. He's not entirely adverse, but a dose of wariness will never go amiss.

"It's an experiment!" Sherlock huffs.

That's not entirely reassuring (some of his friend's experiments are...peculiar at the very least), but John obeys all the same. He trusts that no harm will come to him (well, nothing he can't recover from).

The soft kiss on his lips makes his eyes snap open, but nothing else. He's too surprised to react properly.

Sherlock retreats anyway. He looks at his best friend long and hard and surely deducing, then announces, "You're not angry."

"No," John confirms needlessly.

"Can I repeat the experiment?" For scientific purposes, obviously. A single instance is not adequate evidence for or against any hypothesis after all.

John grins at him. "You better."