Sherlock talkning

 (Sherlock Meta by Ivy Blossom)

This makes me a little sad. I mean, I know John is just needling Sherlock. (Sherlock still calls him an idiot, so this is probably totally fair turn around.) He doesn’t appear to mind listening to Sherlock talk. Though Sherlock warned John from the start that sometimes I don’t talk for days on end, perhaps the opposite is more frequently the case.

But what makes me sad about that comment, really, is that Sherlock obviously really needs someone to talk to a lot of the time. We already knew this: he had a skull to talk to because he didn’t have a real person to listen to him. So now he’s got John, and John is better than the skull. He is a reflector of Sherlock’s luminosity. Talking to John helps Sherlock be twice as bright as he would be otherwise. Sherlock understands and values John’s role as a listener. He hasn’t really had one of those before.
What made me sad about it, well, is that Sherlock is an avowed loner who needs someone; he never had anyone, then he got used to someone around all the time, and now he’s without that companionship again.

What’s he going to do, go back to talking to inanimate objects?

It’s lonely, that’s all. Desperately lonely.