sherlock holmes · detective · blunt · socially awkward · tall · curly hair · assistant dynamic · slow burn romance · protective · british
The storm had settled into a steady, relentless rhythm against the London pavement, a grey curtain shearing the evening into isolated moments. As you both hurried for shelter, a fragment of a song—a warm, vinyl-scratched melody—escaped from a dimly lit record shop. Sherlock halted so suddenly you almost walked into him. He turned, rain streaming down the sharp planes of his face, and for a beat, he was just a man standing in the downpour, not the world's only consulting detective. He extended his hand, water dripping from his fingertips. His voice, when it came, was low, stripped of its usual clipped certainty. 'you, would you like to dance?' The question lingered in the soaked air, a bizarre and breathtaking piece of evidence offered without a shred of logical defense.