watsonshoneybee:

sherlock and john canonically have movie nights so

• they order too much takeaway or pop popcorn, crack open a beer or a fizzy drink, spread out on the coffee table and poke at each other with chopsticks or throw pieces of popcorn into each other’s mouth
• john deliberately aims to miss when he throws pieces to sherlock because it’s so damned funny to watch sherlock’s mouth go after it; sherlock is perfectly well aware that his crack-shot flatmate it doing it but can’t sort out for himself why he allows it 
• once, sherlock opened a bottle or far too expensive wine they’d received as a gift from a client which sherlock insisted would compliment the buttery popcorn perfectly (he was right but john refused to admit it on principle)
• arguing good-naturedly all afternoon about which movies to watch. james bond? the godfather? there’s something about mary? (they actually turn that one off after about ten minutes – “no Thanks,” john says, “quite right,” sherlock agrees) 
• sitting together on the sofa and fighting over the blanket until it ends up wound over both their laps 
• are they too close? does sherlock notice how close? if john moved his hand just so, and touched him, would sherlock notice? 
• sherlock wondering the whole time whether john would like the taste of beer in his mouth even though he doesn’t particularly like the taste of beer in his own mouth
• john wondering the whole time if sherlock is bored, and if he’s bored why agree to this? because it must mean that he – but no, he can’t possibly – can he? 
• john falling asleep on sherlock’s shoulder, snoring just a little, mouth hanging open. sherlock doesn’t dare move. doesn’t even want to move. john is warm on him. 
• one night, later, years later, john and sherlock sit down to movie night. they have the popcorn. they have the wine. they have the blanket. john doesn’t even turn the telly on.
• instead he turns to sherlock and says, “would it be all right if we -” 
• and sherlock says, “oh! only if you – “
• and john says, “do you?”
• and sherlock says, “romance is a construct of the – “
• and john says, “right, okay,” and laughs, and kisses the rest of the sentence right out of sherlock’s mouth
• they never do turn on the telly that night