ataraxion | CASE 006; TEXT

Concern is a disadvantage, Sherlock. You know I know better.

[ which is to say, a bit. ]

I've seen worse.

I'm capable of worse.
Are you really surprised?

Not with him around. This proves it. Love is a disadvantage and you keep proving it over and over. Hardly. There was a reason I liked you.

[ like, really, but a minor detail. ]

Edited 2012-05-18 05:10 (UTC)

This isn't love. This is debt.

You know a thing or two about debts owed.

Attraction, then. Sentimental feelings. You're going to potentially get yourself killed and I'm not going to be able to save your neck. I can't repay if you're dead.

Then repay me when I'm alive, naturally.
Why is this even up for debate?

You know what sentiment does to you Irene.
It throws you off.

Because I haven't found something I find suitable to repay you with. I'd rather not have to tell me that I owe you more than one debt. Because I want it to be. Just this once. It does the same thing to you Sherlock. I never asked you to save me. He wouldn't. You can't take my pulse now. Think.

Shouldn't it be me looking for something suitable?
You're not actually obliged to pay me back.

You're right. He's not asking. I'm offering.
Just this once. Abuse the opportunity.

I am. Irene. It's all I do.

We're hardly the traditional type. You say that now, Sherlock, and it makes me think you forget who I am. A fact you may not have deduced: You were in my on my side. Exactly when I needed you to be. Do you remember that conversation we had, Mr. Holmes? Back before you figured out the password. Perhaps I already am. You don't truly know. Is it, Sherlock? Did you think when doing this? Did you think about being on my side? Dinner. After you're done with Neal. Purely innocent.

Edited 2012-05-19 21:09 (UTC)

You do away with tradition. Darwinism.
You adapt. Stagnation occurs otherwise.

Same principle, different situation.
Did you think I wasn't thinking back when I told you to run?
Fueled by sentiment but never thoughtless.
I'm looking for a loophole.

[ I'm looking for a fall. Because that's what it all is. Risking his life for a chase but falling for sentiment. His relationship with Irene is the same. This is him telling Caffrey to run. ( That's what he's good at anyway. ) It's his way of telling Irene that Caffrey's made a lasting impact, the same way she has. ]

[ They're extraordinarily similar and he's taken a fall for them both. ]

Nothing is ever innocent. Yes.

Survival of the fittest and I most certainly am the fittest. Death occurs otherwise. The ones who misbehave have the most enemies. No, the decision to assist me. You could have let me die. You didn't. You didn't think. I'm not sure there is one. Limit to where you can run.

[ another woman would be jealous. and maybe somewhere, irene is a bit jealous, she can take moriarty, but caffrey is different. perhaps it's because she can say he's fascinating as well and that well exceptions to the rule can always occur more than once. ]

Everything is as innocent as you make it. Call me. Or text me. Not entirely picky. We'll meet in a kitchen.

[ he's not going to work this into admitting Irene's fit. ]

I'm usually at the end of your misbehavior.

[ thank god for text, interpret as you will Ms. Adler. ]

[ Sherlock's fingers fold together briefly before he replies. His chest feels like a drum and all it is, pounding beat after beat. His mind races. Analyses every bit of sentiment laced in those words, her words. The sort of sentiment that ends all arguments. The sort that rules her heart. ]

[ he leaves it at that. ]

[ any other words make him too tense, too annoyed and fixated. ]

[ and he remembers why he oh so rarely replies to her. ]

[ because she makes him feel like this. ]

CASE 006; TEXT

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encrypted 100%

ENCRYPTED IT HURTS.

ENCRYPTED STOP THIS RIDE I WOULD LIKE TO GET OFF.

I like how all the innuendo isn't encrypted but the feels are

it's because feels are dumb and mean

god feelings suck.

they need to go very far away.

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