Janine does not know who Sherlock really is, but Molly does

 (Sherlock meta by iamazonian)

She kept saying that she’s the only one who knows who Sherlock really is (in 221B), or that she at least knows who Sherlock is (in the hospital, where she didn’t say “only one” but still carried that implication in her tone).

Excuse me, dear Janine, but you didn’t even know that your whole relationship with “Sherl” was a scam.

You can use the whole “blinded by sentiment” excuse, alright, but that just means that for the entirety of your acquaintance, you were blinded by sentiment and thus everything you know about him is not only sugar-coated but downright wrong. It was falsified, and you didn’t know. The version of ‘him’ that you know is not what he is. It’s so ridiculously simple.

If for your whole life, your brain has been registering salt as sugar because of some sort of malfunction in your taste buds, you cannot claim to know what salt is or what something being salty means when the time comes that your taste buds are corrected.

And for you to tell him that you’re the only one who knows who he is in front of his best friend, well you’re just downright flipping delusional.

Also, it’s funny, because I could’ve sworn someone was shown to be quite… experienced in the matter of seeing the real Sherlock even when he’s actively trying to hide what he’s feeling.

And that someone didn’t even think she counted.

I see the strength of Molly Hooper shine through even though she wasn’t in any Janine scenes in this episode. Because she possesses the gift of knowing who Sherlock Holmes is, through a combination of knowing him for years and working with him on a regular basis and loving him without expecting that he’ll love her back and being his friend who’d suffer through insults and deductions to help him without any sort of payment and basically just being there for him through the bad and the worse and the worst of times.

Because she doesn’t put herself on a pedestal even after Sherlock Holmes literally told her that she mattered the most.

Because even through everything she’s done for him, and everything that she can see in him that no one else can’t, she still doesn’t claim that she’s the one who knows Sherlock the most. Which, with the exception of Mycroft, may just prove to be true.

And I’m sorry, but I just can’t let that hospital scene go: You know that he’s not what you thought he was, and still you claim to know him? Who he really is?

And claim that you would have been friends, right after you’ve spread lies and rumors about him? I mean yes, he was a downright arsehole and he did 100% deserve that, but how do you show genuine friendship after you make money off of lies you’ve fabricated about a person?

I’m sorry again, but I happen to remember that a certain pathologist to whom he’s shown some of worst arseholery to, and over a prolonged period of time as well, puts him in his place without making a profit out of him. And still offers herself (“You can have me.”) even though she really believed he doesn’t consider her as a friend.

Forgive me if these are shipper goggles talking, or just probably common sense, but that’s what friendship and love (whether platonic or romantic) is. At least, to me.

Not freaking asking someone on his hospital bed why he didn’t initiate/encourage sex at least once with her before he broke it off.

No, darling, you weren’t disappointed that you didn’t become Sherlock’s friend. You were disappointed because you didn’t manage to get his dangly bits into you. You were disappointed because the illusion of a fairytale whirlwind romance was brought to a stop, and your belief that you were the person who’s conquered Sherlock Holmes’ mind and heart was shattered. It was your ego that was bruised. And that’s what you’re annoyed about.