A/N: The story will follow the series from season 1 to 2. The romance will be slow developing. In this installation, there is a story of Sherlock and how he got himself entangled with John Watson.

As Sherlock is our main guide, don't expect romantic dinners with candles. Just awkwardness since I'll attempt to stay true to the show and show them within its limitations.

In the second installation, This is Not What I Wanted, we'll follow John Watson and his coming to terms with his own emotional life.

I expect it to be sad. I've already started it and it seems like that, especially since it'll follow the 3. and 4. season.

Hopefully, I'll come around to write the third story which will go beyond 4. season and there you might expect every silly gay event I can muster since I'll be free from obeying the cannon.

For now, I hope you'll enjoy this story. Keep in mind that sometimes it takes me a while to get back but the gayness always lures me in.

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters or making money out of it, it's just fun and the challenge.

Beta-ed: star-chan89 (welcome aboard)

The first chapter, in which our characters meet each other. It shows Sherlock perspective on the matter.

"In fact, he has likings of you Mrs Hudson" said Sherlock when he announced that a new tenant will be moving in. He had said that before John Watson even came to look at the place. Of course, Sherlock had believed the proof of his eyes, and his eyes did tell him that the soldier with the imaginary wound would be moving in. He had that bored expression on his face; he wasn't expecting any surprises in his life. John thought that he had seen what the entire world could offer, and it was disappointing a thought.

Sherlock understood John because he always moved fast for the very same reason; to be ahead of events, to reach that feeling of discovery, the feeling of life revolving. When he discovered the answers and clues, nobody ever bothered to see how he felt, new, excited, and alive.

The doctor with the limp, cane and bored eyes suffered in lack of that feeling of discovery. War had left him cracked for terror and the unexpected; it was difficult to adjust to the slow pace of daily life. That was good for Sherlock because that meant that John would endure his odd habits just to get a glimpse of the rush that comes with him, the rush of danger.

Of course, he didn't expect anything more of his new flatmate; he rarely did expect anything crucial of other people. He thought that he would just be there to occasionally ask about something, something odd that Sherlock was conducting.

"How do you mean?" asked Mrs Hudson in her high pitched voice.

"He looks timid, but I think he's fierce." He offered her a half of a smile.

"Oh you horrible boy" she blushed and went but Sherlock knew he was right, he knew to recognize courage when he's seen it. To stand before him and withstand his prying eyes with all of your weaknesses exposed, required a certain dose of self-awareness, and although the doctor did stand just slightly confused, he was not distressed at all. He hadn't even blinked when Sherlock suggested that his limp was false. That was new. Sherlock liked surprises, so he even went so far as to wink at the doctor, knowing that he wouldn't understand that meant that he was in no further questions asked.

Strange thing was that Doctor John Watson was in as soon as he entered the lab, even before he spoke. He sighed and looked around, really looking, at what surrounds him, instead of what most people would have done, concentrating solely on the man of their interest. Sherlock appreciated that because that meant that John would be willing to look at the things that surround Sherlock, rather than at Sherlock himself. Sherlock knew that people rarely appreciated his unique personality.

In the dinner, John had eaten and produced small talk. Sherlock was barely listening, responding without a second thought. His mind was racing, calculating the time that the killer would need to decide whether or not to turn up, how he, Sherlock, would approach the situation, and finally to figure out what would reveal and divide the killer from the surrounding crowd.

John asked him about having a girlfriend and he responded automatically.

"Girlfriend. No, not really my area" he admitted his general apathy towards the matter. True there were certain females that he could charm if he was in desperate need for it, but he would put them in their place instantly destroying any illusion that he would ever be involved in such a trivial matter.

After that came the boyfriend question and John got Sherlock's full attention for the first time that night. He started to squirm under Sherlock's probing gaze trying to reassure him that it is fine if he has.

"I know its fine" Sherlock said sternly but John held his gaze with a smile not backing down.

"So you have a boyfriend" he continued.

"No" was all Sherlock said in return, keeping his gaze on John, observing his reaction.

"Right, okay, you're unattached, just like me. Fine, khm, good."

Sherlock looked away because the subject had ended, and John didn't show any signs of real discomfort about the subject but then he replayed the last bit in his head. It wouldn't be productive if the doctor was left under impression that Sherlock would be available for any kind of emotional involvement. John was a fairly attractive man in his open and blunt way. It was flattering that he was interested because there was something interesting about him, more than meets the eye, but Sherlock had decided a long time ago that those kinds of engagements were futile and a waste of time. That's why he gave the subject a few more words to be sure John has got the right idea about him.

"Thank you," he said when he saw John wasn't expecting anything and was willing to accept even his marriage to his work. That was the spot on which would people call him a freak or something like that and walk away, John continued to eat.

The cab didn't move during their conversation, nobody got in, and nobody got out. Why a cab? What was clever about it?

So I do think the first episode is teasing with Sherlock gayness giving us the space to be fangirls, but to me, it seems he is telling the boyfriend is a more likely option. And to defend my position on the matter I will point out that he is barely aware of Molly's interest, and it has to hit him on the head to realize in S02E01, but for John, he's immediately assuming he is interested and acts like it's a normal thing to be. And he is completely unfazed by other people's assumption they are in a relationship.

Don't know if there will be another chapter.