The Things I Do For You, Sherlock Holmes!

Chapter Three – Dressed To Impress
(This Chapter Is Dedicated To: starrysummernights)

Sherlock stood in the airport, nose crinkled slightly as he watched the mob of people rushing in all directions. Banker, baker, waiter, chemist, police officer – "Sherlock!" John hurried over to the handsome detective, pulling him close and wrapping him in a tight embrace. "Man, I am so, so sorry!" he gasped, burying his nose into the other's shoulder. "I thought that…"
"It's quite alright, John," Sherlock said in his smooth, deep baritone, cutting him off. "I'm used to spending all days by myself, and New Year's Day is nothing special. It just signals a restart of the human invention of the calendar, nothing more."

John looked up at him sadly, keeping his firm grip around his waist. "Is that all it is to you, Sherlock? Something so dull and technical as that?"
"What else could it be? Normal people make New Year's resolutions that never last, and people just get older and life goes on."
John swallowed, "You've never…uhm…heard of New Year's kisses?
Sherlock scoffed, pulling away and starting to walk to the exit. "Heard of them, yes. Understood the point of them? No."

Quietly, the doctor slipped into the cab beside Sherlock, watching as the detective gave the driver the instruction to return to Baker Street. He couldn't help the way his heart ached slightly as the other leaned back and started typing on his phone. Had Sherlock spent every celebration and special day alone? Birthdays, Christmas, Easter…?

Back at Baker Street, John nervously set his case down as Sherlock hung up his coat, walked upstairs and flopped down on the sofa. "So…erm…we're not doing anything today, then? You know, uhm – going anywhere, eating out?"
Sherlock raised a confused eyebrow. "We don't have to do that every day. Besides, we eat out often enough, and I should think you to be temporarily tired of restaurants, seeing as though you've just returned from Paris."

John shifted on his feet. "It's not necessary, of course, and I know you don't deem this day to be anything out of the ordinary, but I would love it if we recognised it in some way – if not for New Year's…then perhaps for me coming home from France? I just…it feels like ages already since I last saw you, and – "
Sherlock looked at the clock. 1.30pm – by John's time, that must be about lunchtime, right? "Okay," he sighed, sitting up and running a hand through his thick curls, "what did you have in mind?"
"Ah…dinner together this evening? I know we already do that often, but – "

"Consider it settled. I shall make a booking somewhere new – I would, of course, have preferred Angelo's, but he is closed today. Be dressed by six." With that, Sherlock was up and off to his room in one swift, elegant movement, leaving John wondering where in London he might be taking the blond for dinner. Knowing Sherlock, it would probably be somewhere classy.

John's mouth fell open when Sherlock walked into the sitting room that evening, dressed in a very fitting, tailored black suit, crisp white shirt and deep purple tie. He looked stunning. As the detective walked past to collect his phone and wallet, John secretly took an indulgent sniff of his flatmate's expensive cologne, which almost melted him right there and then. He closed his mouth and bit his lip, swallowing thickly. Wow. Looking him over carefully, John realised that the consulting detective had actually gone to the trouble of wearing diamond cufflinks. The brunette really might attract more attention than he was hoping for tonight, John realised.

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