Hm. Hard to say. We've been working together since... 1881, I believe. And 1895 was the year I left behind when I was brought here. Not counting the three years I believed him to be dead, [Said with a little bitterness] I believe we've been properly together for about... five or six years in total.
We took on our wedding bands when I married my wife in 1889- don't worry, she was fully aware. Her tastes were quite similar to mine.
[gay/lesbian solidarity in the 1800s is marrying in order to protect each other + provide easy excuses for one another should suspicions begin to raise.
Watson's curious about whether or not Juno's had similar relationships to his with Holmes, but he's a polite gentlemen at heart and he doesn't want to pry when there's no reason for it. He gets the feeling Juno's the type to keep that thing guarded, anyway.
which is unfortunate bcause i wanted to make juno spill the beans]
You're not prying, don't worry. I've just. Never really talked about it before.
[Even with Holmes, the two of them let actions speak more than words- gentle touches, knowing eye contact, affectionate gestures that were so brief that the average person would've missed them.
While Watson says the two have been together for more than five years- eight, if you include Holmes' years in hiding- it's more complicated than that. 1887 was just the year they both put an actual word to things, acknowledged what they were both feeling. If Watson was being entirely honest, they've probably been in love since 1882 and just took quite a while to get around to doing something about that.
But that's confusing and a lot to dump on a relative stranger, so Watson's leaving it at that for now.]
[spends hours reconstructing the tl for SH canon bcause ACD didnt give a FUCK about consistency]
We took on our wedding bands when I married my wife in 1889- don't worry, she was fully aware. Her tastes were quite similar to mine.
[gay/lesbian solidarity in the 1800s is marrying in order to protect each other + provide easy excuses for one another should suspicions begin to raise.
Watson's curious about whether or not Juno's had similar relationships to his with Holmes, but he's a polite gentlemen at heart and he doesn't want to pry when there's no reason for it. He gets the feeling Juno's the type to keep that thing guarded, anyway.
which is unfortunate bcause i wanted to make juno spill the beans]You're not prying, don't worry. I've just. Never really talked about it before.
[Even with Holmes, the two of them let actions speak more than words- gentle touches, knowing eye contact, affectionate gestures that were so brief that the average person would've missed them.
While Watson says the two have been together for more than five years- eight, if you include Holmes' years in hiding- it's more complicated than that. 1887 was just the year they both put an actual word to things, acknowledged what they were both feeling. If Watson was being entirely honest, they've probably been in love since 1882 and just took quite a while to get around to doing something about that.
But that's confusing and a lot to dump on a relative stranger, so Watson's leaving it at that for now.]