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Guest - (Chapter 14) Aw shit ('scuse my language please), I don't know why I always want to do that, but thank you for pointing it out. (I ALWAYS want to spell satisfied with a "y" *sigh*) I'm afraid I couldn't find it, but I'll be spending most of my Christmas looking for it.
The next note you made was the fact that I started a sentence with "The Holmes". Yes I did intend to put "elder" there, and I have done so. Thank you! Also, I never got a partial review from you, so it's all good. Don't worry about it.
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A/N: Very late, yes. I procrastinate. Also, I've been working (aka, helping my grandmother with Christmas preparations). Apologies for all these sporadic delays... Hope the chapters themselves make up for it! (Though this one is a little short...)
25 Days of Christmas
Chapter 21
21 December, 2013
"It's so bright!" Sherlock exclaimed after John was done the next morning.
John grinned, observing the lights he had strung around the mirror over the mantle. "Good." Sherlock opened his mouth to protest, but John stopped him. "Hey, you were the one who wanted to put the wreath over the bison skull instead of on the door- I think I deserve to put some lights someplace I want them."
Sherlock rolled his eyes, but had to admit that the flat looked rather festive. "So is that all then?" he asked, eyes back on his computer.
"Yeah... I think so," John replied, adjusting the bow that Sherlock had tied around the knife in his papers. John had been tempted to pull it out of the mantle for the holidays, but really this was as much Sherlock's flat as it was his, so it hadn't felt quite right. He glanced over at the skull - he hadn't had the heart to take the hat off of it either. He quite liked it actually, liked the little touches Sherlock had made to everything. It looked like their flat, instead of their flat that John had forced Sherlock to help decorate.
"Good," Sherlock said with a nod, scrolling through e-mails.
"Do you think we should move the Christmas party to tomorrow?" John asked out of nowhere later that day.
"Why?" asked Sherlock distractedly from the table.
"Well, it's just that the twenty-third is a Monday, and everyone is working, and it won't be 'til late-"
"I think that's the point John. After a hard day of work, everyone gets to start off their Christmas holiday having fun with their friends. And the functioning sociopath that happens to live where the party is at."
"Shut up Sherlock, you're their friend too."
Sherlock huffed and rolled his eyes, but said no more.
"Alright, yeah, I guess that's alright," John murmured to himself, mind back on the party.
"Good," Sherlock said again firmly.