Title: Conversation
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and_so_we_goSummary: A drabble. My first post on this journal, and, incidentally, my first foray into fanfiction. Holmes/Watson, sort of slashy but not really...
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There is no need for words between them. Not anymore, not after fifteen years' worth of fitting seamlessly together. The detective and the doctor: not opposites, not the same, they complement each other like neither expected but nor can they picture anything else. Soulmates. They're not even old yet: they have the advantage of experience and hope for the future. That is why there is no need for words--each thought, each emotion is understood almost before it can be expressed verbally. Intimate knowledge of each other renders speech unnecessary, but that doesn't mean they don't enjoy one another's conversation.