#ask johnlock

[ask-uni-sherlock]

John: I have a date tonight, hoping to get some.

Greg: Mate same, I need to get laid.

Sherlock: ...sometime I think about hugging someone.

[questions-for-sherlock]

John’s useless job

Earlier today I had a talk with John over why he still works at the clinic. It’s boring and never much more than common colds and minor scrapes. The job is nowhere near enough to keep him interested. He’s an army doctor, that is so much below him. There is no logical reason for him to keep it. I told him as much. He always sticks to the same arguments back, that we need the money, that one of us has to work, that he likes being a doctor.

I can see him keeping it if it was more than a clinic, but in the end it’s really just busy work for him. We don’t need the money, my family has money and we make a decent amount from the cases we take. He does like being a doctor but that is not enough, what he is doing now. I also don’t see a reason one of us needs a job, that just doesn’t add up.

I was discussing these thoughts with someone earlier and they suggested that perhaps John keeps the job at the clinic is because he would think he is useless without it. The more we talked about it the more I realized that I needed to make sure John knows how much Rosie and I need him, how much we both love him. He is so much more than he believes himself to be and he doesn’t need a boring job to prove all that he is.

Naturally I went to the clinic and went straight into his office (in hindsight not my best idea, prostate exam, need to knock next time. Waited until he was done and tried again). I told him how much I loved him, that he is my everything, and I hope to always be with him. I explained how much he means to my work and to my life. I made sure he knew that I love him and that Rosie does as well, that she needs both her fathers as she grows up and that she’s already lost too much. We had a hug and I came back home.

I am now writing this after helping Rosie with a picture she is drawing for her dad and I planned an evening for the three of us, a nice dinner, the cinema (animated most likely because of Rosie) and then back home where Rosie will be put to bed and John and I will go to bed as well. Hopefully for more than just sleeping but at his request I will not get into that right now.

The point of all of this is that John Watson is not useless or pathetic or broken or stupid or any of the other words I’ve heard him call himself over the past couple years. He is beautiful, important, helpful, caring, loved, and so much more. He has so many people that love him and care for him, he has his family, no matter how weird we may be. John remember this please. Rosie and I love you. You are our world. You are everything we need and so much more.

-SH

[questions-for-sherlock]

John keeps trying to explain this whole “Self care” thing to me. And now he’s trying to make sure I’m doing it. He currently has me sorting through emails and I’m quite sure this is closer to self hate than self care.  -SH

[questions-for-sherlock]

Sometime Rosie falls asleep on John’s lap then, he falls asleep on my shoulder. What am I supposed to do then except not move at all for an hour or more?

-S.H.

[questions-for-sherlock]

Day 2 of John working 12 hour shifts. I’m exhausted, he’s exhausted. I’m taking care of Rosie, it’s a lot of work keeping a small child alive by myself. I don’t know how single parents do it. -SH

[questions-for-sherlock]

Date/Family Night as Planed by Sherlock

Sherlock apparently decided, without me knowing, that tonight was going to be a date/family night. He originally said it was date night but we decided to take Rosie with us as we haven’t really had anytime together as a family lately. So we went out, us and our daughter.

It was a great night, started with a walk through Regents park, a short one as it was quite cool out, then to Angelo’s for dinner (he’s insisting that I add that we accepted the candle again). And then back home where we watched a film, he apparently was planning a trip to the cinema but changed his mind when we ended up taking Rosie with us. After the film it was bath time then off to bed for Rosie. I won’t say what happened after that for Sher and I, you all seem to have quite the imagination to figure that out for yourselves.

This definitely wasn’t the day I was expecting when I woke up this morning but it was a good surprise, the kind that is always unexpected with Sherlock. I always forget just how caring and romantic he can be when he truly wants to be. He seems to know just what we need, between him and I, and all three of us as a family. There has been a lot of stress lately between us, him not working and the wedding planning. It’s been a relaxing day, exactly what we all needed.

It looks like the next one will be my turn, I just have to find a way to beat him in this. It sounds like the perfect kind of competition to get into, better and more healthy then our usual anyway. This will teach him not to tell me he loves how competitive I can be. 

-JW

[ask-uni-sherlock]

John: I have learned that Sherlock does in fact have aspergers.

Sherlock: that’s wrong actually. Aspergers no longer exists. In the DSM 5 it was changed, all “mental issues” related to it are now categorized as autism spectrum disorder, aspergers being one of these disorders.

John: I’m not even going to question you knowing more about it then a doctor-to- be does. I’m just going to accept it.

[questions-for-sherlock]

Sherlock and Rosie

Sherlock holding Rosie and getting her to sleep might just be the most precious thing I’ve ever seen. He’s started reading her books about pirates. They both really enjoy it, yet it seems almost painful to Sherlock, bringing back past memories. I don’t think he knows I know but I do, I think it’s almost therapeutic though, it could definitely help him. 

When he’s around her it brings out this entirely different person in him yet he’s also the same. He seems really soft and gentle, guiding her in anyway he can. He also corrects her when she does something wrong, typical Sherlock way yet not as harsh. I’ve seen him make adults cry proving them wrong, it’s not that, what he does to Rosie. With her he carefully explains the error and corrects her. I’m not sure she understands though, he uses words most people don’t understand and she’s only 3. He holds her as though she might break, comforts her if she cries, wakes up in the middle of the night or just checks on her when she cries. 

Sherlock is an amazing father to her and so helpful to me. The point of all of this is to once again remind people that Sherlock is indeed a human being, and an amazing one at that. He’d do anything for Rosie or for me and for that I will always be grateful. 

-JW