Yee, thank you, thank you! So happy to know we pleased our requester!!! Your prompts were delicious to ponder, and we had so much fun with this, I can't tell you -- once we settled on the time period where Neal and Sherlock were interacting, it just unfolded nicely, one bit after another. Took work, of course, to try to get their voices right (especially Sherlock, the bastard!), and to figure where each would be in their lives, and what impact they should have on each other, but really, really fun to write.
Neal is definitely Sherlock's match -- what he might lack in outright education, or a brain filled with a hundred thousand memorized facts, he more than makes up for with his skill at reading people's faces and his emotional intuition, and he's no slouch when it comes to adding up details, either. (And a little charm and a very fine hat never hurts!)
I'm glad the 2005 tag worked for you too -- that's actually where the story started, with us joking about the "Neal, Neal, Neal..." line and working backward from there as to where the friendship had come from. But we also felt it was an important vantage point for them to reflect on what they'd learned from each other. (And who knows -- maybe Lestrade dragging Sherlock into the light ultimately had some impact on dragging Neal into the light as well, if the fortune he was given to think about while incarcerated had something to do with his eventual decision to work with Peter....)
Like yeomanrand said, this seems self-contained enough that we don't currently have any ideas or plans for continuing it (though at least some elements of it are likely to figure into the mental backstory for our other Sherlock works) -- but we have learned the hard way never to say never. :)
Neal is definitely Sherlock's match -- what he might lack in outright education, or a brain filled with a hundred thousand memorized facts, he more than makes up for with his skill at reading people's faces and his emotional intuition, and he's no slouch when it comes to adding up details, either. (And a little charm and a very fine hat never hurts!)
I'm glad the 2005 tag worked for you too -- that's actually where the story started, with us joking about the "Neal, Neal, Neal..." line and working backward from there as to where the friendship had come from. But we also felt it was an important vantage point for them to reflect on what they'd learned from each other. (And who knows -- maybe Lestrade dragging Sherlock into the light ultimately had some impact on dragging Neal into the light as well, if the fortune he was given to think about while incarcerated had something to do with his eventual decision to work with Peter....)
Like yeomanrand said, this seems self-contained enough that we don't currently have any ideas or plans for continuing it (though at least some elements of it are likely to figure into the mental backstory for our other Sherlock works) -- but we have learned the hard way never to say never. :)
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