{"id":136474,"date":"2015-09-15T13:08:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/15\/johnlockismyreligion\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T18:35:00","slug":"johnlockismyreligion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/15\/johnlockismyreligion\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-136474 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/15\/johnlockismyreligion\/attachment\/136475\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_nbtyidtbv01shp9kso1_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_nbtyidtbv01shp9kso1_400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_nbtyidtbv01shp9kso1_400-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/johnlockismyreligion.tumblr.com\/post\/128985294748\" target=\"_blank\">johnlockismyreligion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theanglophileofbakerstreet.tumblr.com\/post\/128536111366\" target=\"_blank\">theanglophileofbakerstreet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thexth.tumblr.com\/post\/128348778836\" target=\"_blank\">thexth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thexth.tumblr.com\/post\/128346893721\" target=\"_blank\">thexth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/foxestacado.tumblr.com\/post\/101955593637\" target=\"_blank\">foxestacado<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I imagine this shot as a random pic that John managed to get with his phone after Sherlock is happy from having just solved a case. It\u2019s the only good pic of Sherlock that he has. And after Sherlock\u2019s suicide, it hurts him too much to look at it, but he can\u2019t bear to delete it either.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>i\u2019m full crying<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>he\u2019s so soft<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>fuck<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Angst is good, I love it, but I wanna try for something more positive.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>So, apparently, nothing has changed, because John likes Sherlock the way he is (otherwise he wouldn\u2019t fall in love with him), and because nobody knows about them.<br \/>If by \u201cnobody\u201d you exclude Mycroft, who deduced it with a superficial glance, and Mrs. Hudson because\u2026 well\u2026 she heard them.<br \/>More than once.<br \/>But anyway, for the world they are still only two flatmates, the consulting detective and his blogger, who solve crimes and save the Queen and the Country. So no PDA for them.<br \/>Not that John is afraid, or ashamed about it, no.<br \/>The fact is that in the last year his life has been a roller coaster of emotions and feelings: he got married, discovered that his wife wasn\u2019t the woman he thought she was, he told himself that he didn\u2019t care and pretended that everything was fine, he failed, crashed down, divorced, he opened his eyes and realized that his best friend was pining for him for a long time, and he found himself that the deep feeling he felt for Sherlock wasn\u2019t simply fondness, but love. He stammered out a goofy confession and Sherlock rewarded him with an equally clumsy kiss and a whispered \u201cI love you, I always did\u201d.<br \/>What a year.<br \/>And now John doesn\u2019t want that their fledgling romance ends on tabloids (no needs for that shit in their life), or reporters lurking under their house ready to capture and dirtying every gesture of affection, he don\u2019t want to explain anything to friends and colleagues, he just wants to enjoy Sherlock and the new-found stability in his life, without external interference.<br \/>Sherlock agrees with him, especially for the tabloids parts, and also because he believes their relationship is only their business, and no one else.<br \/>Of course, there\u2019s something different now: they bicker less, Sherlock is considerate (he never left him behind on a crime scene), when they walk down the street their fingers touch, and when they are in the same room, they immediately search each other with the eyes.<br \/>But these gestures are so subtle that they think no one will notice.<br \/>Well, no: obviously they aren\u2019t the great actors they think they are, because someone noticed their change.<br \/>They are on the roof of a building, whose concrete was covered with strange symbols (bad business, there may be satanists involved) and Sherlock is intent on doing research on his cell phone, while John is leaning against a chimney and is watching him.<br \/>\u201cDo you need me?\u201d<br \/>\u201cThanks, but not now John, in a minute.\u201d<br \/>\u201cOkay, I\u2019m here.\u201d<br \/>John doesn\u2019t mind, because watching Sherlock\u2019s mind working hard and deducing things is always a fascinating spectacle.<br \/>Greg comes close to John and clears his throat.<br \/>\u201cI know that Sherlock thinks I\u2019m an idiot,\u201d he says in a conversational tone of voice, \u201cbut I thought you gave me more credit. Congratulations, by the way.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThank you,\u201d John said automatically, then \u201cWait a minute\u2026 how do you know?\u201d<br \/>\u201cAs I said, I\u2019m not a complete idiot: something has changed between the two of you.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWe thought we were being careful. We just want to enjoy a period of peace and keep this just to ourselves.\u201d<br \/>\u201cUnderstandable. I\u2019m not really angry, you know.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThank you again. May I ask what has betrayed us?\u201d<br \/>\u201cEyes and smile. They are no longer those of two flatmates. You haven\u2019t looked at your wife on your wedding day the way you look at Sherlock, it\u2019s as if he were something otherworldly in your eyes. As for Sherlock, well\u2026 if I weren\u2019t 100% certain that it\u2019s him, I would think that it was replaced with a clone.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<br \/>Lestrade takes his cell phone and shows it to John.<br \/>\u201cI took this picture before, while you were talking.\u201d<br \/>John looks, and understand: Sherlock looks at him with a soft smile, spontaneous, sweet and so full of love that the feeling radiates up to him through the small mobile phone screen, and John has no doubt that if someone took a picture of him, his smile would look exactly the same. They hunted and chased each other for years, have risked losing and wasting this love, and now they feel such a great happiness that it is impossible to contain or hide it.<br \/>\u201cI love him\u201d John whispers, nodding slowly. God, he is so in love that he could cry right now.<br \/>\u201cAnd I\u2019m happy for you,\u201d Lestrade whispers back, pointedly ignoring the embarrassment of his friend, as a good Brit.<br \/>\u201cDo you want a copy of the photo?\u201d<br \/>John has the true Sherlock for himself, he can see the same smile and those eyes, so bright and beautiful, whenever he wants, but he doesn\u2019t mind at all to have a reminder for the times when they are separated.<br \/>\u201cYes, please.\u201d<br \/>Greg sends the message.<br \/>\u201cWell, now you\u2019re even.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWaht do you mean?\u201d<br \/>\u201cLast week I have given Sherlock a similar photo of you, lovebird.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>johnlockismyreligion: theanglophileofbakerstreet: thexth: thexth: foxestacado: I imagine this shot as a random pic that John managed to get with his phone after Sherlock is happy from having just solved a case. It\u2019s the only good pic of Sherlock that he has. And after Sherlock\u2019s suicide, it hurts him too much to look at it, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/15\/johnlockismyreligion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10217,55,129,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136476,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136474\/revisions\/136476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}