sherlockoddfic replied to your post: harry watson, cocky as fu...
I would watch that SO HARD
achievableformofflight replied to your post: harry watson, cocky as fu...
i’d like to voice my 100% approval of this
OKAY I DON'T THINK Y'ALL UNDERSTAND JUST HOW MUCH I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS
like let's talk about harry & john growing up, and john's the soft-spoken one with the polite smile, while harry's always been too loud, too bold, too everything, really; and she and john are always trading barbs because that's just how they are (barbs that are meant to slide right off, but they both know too much about each other for that)
and harry gets older, takes up smoking and cuts her hair short; she gets into furious fights with anyone who looks at her sideways and john's the one who finds her half the time dripping blood all over the bathroom floor, the one who says, exasperated, 'why are you always like this, harry', but he'll still shove a clean shirt at her and bandage her up with more careful hands than his voice might suggest
so harry gets to uni and gets a little less combative, finds clara who giggles when harry nips at her earlobes and likes it when harry talks queer theory in bed; then one day john, harry's little brother, the one who's supposed to be steady and practical and not at all impulsive, gets a haircut and packs and signs up for the army -- and harry starts drinking
and look, at first she just doesn't want to deal with the terror of waking up one day to a knock on her door and a sombre-faced officer, but it slowly gets worse until one day she realizes that she's in too deep. and clara is pinched and grey and so, so worn out, and it's too much, she doesn't want that, can't keep making clara look that way.
she walks out. (but she was always planning on coming back.)