If it's any consolation to you, I did the same. Wrote him off as useless. Turns out he's really quite the opposite.
[ the perfect trigger. the most exquisite means of accelerated decomposition. the cherry on top of the cake. first he'd dismissed him, then idly resented what he represented - it really was very late on in the game that Jim bothered to recognise what a valuable virus John Watson was.
of course, utterly meaningless in regards to anyone aside from Sherlock Holmes (the Sherlock of his own interests, anyhow), but anyone aside from Sherlock Holmes was just as meaningless to him, so the whole thing balanced out.]
Poor little soldier boy.
[oh, but this conversation is just stock full of brilliant little offshoots—]
Oh, you've met him. [a beat]. You know, I really think we all ought to meet up for tea one day. It'd be so much fun.
[voice floating about, lightly tripping on dreams (teasing or fantasising? honestly, he's not so sure he could tell you himself just yet. the line between daydream and nightmare isn't always just the position of the sun in the sky.)]
video.
[ the perfect trigger. the most exquisite means of accelerated decomposition. the cherry on top of the cake. first he'd dismissed him, then idly resented what he represented - it really was very late on in the game that Jim bothered to recognise what a valuable virus John Watson was.
of course, utterly meaningless in regards to anyone aside from Sherlock Holmes (the Sherlock of his own interests, anyhow), but anyone aside from Sherlock Holmes was just as meaningless to him, so the whole thing balanced out.]
Poor little soldier boy.
[oh, but this conversation is just stock full of brilliant little offshoots—]
Oh, you've met him. [a beat]. You know, I really think we all ought to meet up for tea one day. It'd be so much fun.
[voice floating about, lightly tripping on dreams (teasing or fantasising? honestly, he's not so sure he could tell you himself just yet. the line between daydream and nightmare isn't always just the position of the sun in the sky.)]