#watsolmes

maybe it’s just my personal headcanon, but one thing i absolutely love about holmes/watson is that they don’t have the kind of relationship that wastes honey and sugar. they’re not always happy simply because they love each other, because they both understand well that love sometimes isn’t enough. they argue. sometimes they have the kind of major argument where they raise their voices and end up walking away from each other because they need time and space to think, and they’re not the kind of couple that can’t stand for a second to be apart, neither one apologizes immediately afterwards. instead, they take the time (in solitude) to try to understand the other to then offer apologies that are not of the “i’m apologizing because i made you feel bad and that made me feel bad/i don’t like that you’re mad at me” but a “i apologize because i didn’t understand at the time what made you feel bad, and now i do.”

and i like that.