[ That does show. The shorter man does not straighten so much as he draws his shoulders back a little with the blow.
To John, Moriarty is a psychopath. He doesn't hold value in anything, much less human life. He also seems to have a temper, which makes him more than a little unpredictable. If he is anything like Sherlock (and John does not like to think about it in such a way), who will toss his own things about without a secondary glance during a tantrum, what would Moriarty do?
John may have been the one strapped to the bomb, but he remembered that the consulting criminal was willing to kill them both before the phone had rang. John didn't doubt he would have tried. Not for a moment.
What John did doubt was this sort of immunity Sherlock thought he had against Moriarty. Maybe Sherlock wouldn't be killed outright, true, but there was nothing to stop Moriarty from trying to hurt him. Except, of course, John himself. ]
I'm not leaving, so you'd better find some way to make it work.
[ He tells the other man with a note of finality. He lets his hand go. ]
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To John, Moriarty is a psychopath. He doesn't hold value in anything, much less human life. He also seems to have a temper, which makes him more than a little unpredictable. If he is anything like Sherlock (and John does not like to think about it in such a way), who will toss his own things about without a secondary glance during a tantrum, what would Moriarty do?
John may have been the one strapped to the bomb, but he remembered that the consulting criminal was willing to kill them both before the phone had rang. John didn't doubt he would have tried. Not for a moment.
What John did doubt was this sort of immunity Sherlock thought he had against Moriarty. Maybe Sherlock wouldn't be killed outright, true, but there was nothing to stop Moriarty from trying to hurt him. Except, of course, John himself. ]
I'm not leaving, so you'd better find some way to make it work.
[ He tells the other man with a note of finality. He lets his hand go. ]