_{John, there’s something… I should say; I’ve meant to say always and then never have. Since it’s unlikely we’ll ever meet again, I might as well say it now. John Watson, I—}

_{—someone they want to protect from harm.}

_{If I didn’t understand I was asked to be best man it is because I never expected to be anybody’s best friend. Certainly not the best friend of the bravest, and kindest and the wisest human being I have ever had the good fortune of knowing.}

_{ten days of sherlock
↳ day seven: favourite john quote}

_{i don’t care how you faked it. i wanna know why.}

_{the battlefield}

_{“all that matters to me is the work.”}

_{once again alone.}

_{When I first met him, I knew in a moment I would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there’d be room for him to stay. ― Brian Andreas.}

_{I had no idea that you would be so affected.}

_{ten days of sherlock
↳ day three: favourite episode of season one}

_{Being your slave what should I do but tend
Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend;
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world without end hour,
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are, how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love, that in your will,
Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.}

_{– William Shakespeare, Sonnet 57.}