i shall have such revenges on you both;

Jon & Ghost doodle

what's so devastating about having Young Sherlock focus on Sherlock before he's a consulting detective and James before he's, well, an evil genius out to destroy Sherlock even if it will kill them both, is that James and Sherlock meet at their lowest emotional and professional points in the series. they see each other at their most abandoned and vulnerable, but it's actually Sherlock who is the most vulnerably open, because James very rarely gives anything away about himself or his history.

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”