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 verymorstan replied to your post:writing meme

“let me”, if it was watson who couldn’t sleep? <3

Well, first of all it is actually my headcanon that when Watson had nightmares, after Afghanistan and later on after the hiatus, and Holmes was awake to notice, Holmes started playing the violin at night to send him back to sleep. So Holmes has an extra weapon there, and would usually be able to stop things before they got that far.

But if Watson got into the straightforward cannot fucking sleep mode Holmes is in at the beginning of that fic the violin would probably just make it worse. So much for that.

So Holmes would show up in the sitting room going Watson is crying why what can I do oh no with an added dash of ‘this is all my fault’ because it’s not actually that long after Reichenbach, and settle for putting a hand on his shoulder, and when Watson tells him to go away he’d probably try light humour before realizing oh shit he's really crying oh shit um

because Holmes does do touch as a sign of friendship, especially with Watson, but very little more, so he wouldn’t start cuddling him right away even if he really really wanted to

and Watson is less stubborn than Holmes so I think he’d manage to get Watson into bed

at which point I think it would be Watson who said “Stay,” and Holmes sitting on a chair next to the bed thinking that if this meant he could have got away with the cuddles earlier he should have tried that. And stroking Watson’s hair.

And then he wakes up the next morning with a hell of a crick in his neck and Watson is like thanks but I won’t need that again so Holmes decides to make sure he notices when Watson does. He’s not a doctor, so he’s not going to be trying everything to Fix It the way Watson does, but he wants Watson to be happy.

And if he ended up actually sleeping next to Watson the next time … then we have Holmes consciously aroused by the situation and NOT going to show any physical signs goddammit and Watson half-asleep and unconsciously aroused by the situation …

and I think they’d probably end up platonically [wth spell check that’s a word] sleeping together for months and dreaming about each other and trying to hide their arousal, until the tenth or so time they wake up in each other’s arms, which is when one of them goes 'holy shit this is mutual’. And then they make out and figure out the romance part a lot quicker than they did in Let Me.