Because i took your pulse

“The game was too elaborate. You were enjoying yourself too much.”

@tea-and-a-gay-detective I have to clarify something:

Irene IS a part of the LGBT community, but she is not a lesbian. She’s more likely bisexual…

“She recently ended a marriage of a prominent novelist by having an affair with both participants separately.”

Irene, a woman, said to Sherlock, a man: “I would have you right here on this desk until you beg for mercy twice.”

I mean, she had said countless of times that she wanted to fuck Sherlock Holmes. “DINNER” = “SEX” and the scene above wasn’t a subtle meaning.

JOHN: “And you know the record keeper?” IRENE: “I know what he likes, and I needed to disappear.”

IRENE: “There was a man, an MOD official and I knew what he liked.”

There was a whole scene that showed that she was in love with Sherlock: Her pulse was elevated, her pupils had dilated.

She points out to John that she is gay, but “look at us both.” She was indicating that though she identifies as a lesbian, she’s trying to make a point to John that she actually is in love with Sherlock Holmes. That even though they could say shit like John is not gay and she tells she is gay, there is no doubt that both of them care about Sherlock. That’s the point of the whole Battersea scene. 

Both of them are coming to terms with how Sherlock means to them.

The difference is: Sherlock and John are depicted as friends. As you said, Sherlock and Irene aren’t friends… So why do both John and Irene come to terms that they both care about Sherlock? John cares about his friend, Sherlock. Irene cares about Sherlock… because she loves him.

Being in love with the main character doesn’t make a character weak. In fact, it made her stronger. She used her own love and his attraction to make him look like a fool. She managed to trick him. She was the one that managed to crawl through Sherlock’s skin and wrap him around her finger.

I’m betting he knew that when he had a flashback of Mycroft… and he retaliated by observing her pulse and eyes.

We are not forcing a ship. The writers themselves want them together.

Moffat actually said that they both smile once a day when they think about each other. Martin Freeman said that they have a massive chemistry. Mark Gatiss said that they are absolutely made for each other.

I am not forcing them. We found their chemistry. Have you seen these:

If someone looks at you like that… do you think you mean each other as just acquaintances?!

LOOK AT THESE TWO ^^ YOU DONT FEEL ANYTHING FROM THAT SCENE?! THE COLOURING IS WARM AND FIERY… THEY ARE LEANING TOWARDS EACH OTHER?! (I’m not angry at you, I’m just filled with Adlock feels).

Irene is looking at his lips, and in flirting language, that means: Kiss me. Sherlock, for him, is looking at her eyes. He is an observer and what is he doing while she’s looking at him so attractively? He watches her. 

Sherlock had already seen her eyes dilate. He had already calculated her pulse. What does he need to look at her for? Why is his lips parted? HIS LIPS ARE PARTED!!!

Sherlock’s jaw dropped when he first saw Irene. Not because she was naked. Not because she was a woman. But because she shookt his mind because he was not used to such bold acts. Irene actually used her naked body not because she thought Sherlock would fall for her by showing how sexy she is… It’s because she knows Sherlock would be uncomfortable… and that’s how she won the first battle…

Sherlock kept thinking of Irene in his mind. His mind is his heart. His mind is the most precious thing to him. His intelligence. His thought process. He relies so much with his mind and his senses… and who the fuck interrupts him without his consent? Who the hell appeared but wasn’t actually present in real life? And what does that person do to him in his mind (WHICH HE CONTROLS FOR HIMSELF)?

Irene… stroking his cheeks. You can’t tell us we are forcing this. You can’t tell us Sherlock did not feel anything for Irene.

Irene wasn’t a damsel in distress. She didn’t ask for help. She was not in distress. She accepted her fate. She didn’t shy away from it. She wasn’t sobbing that she didn’t deserve it. She kept her back straight and just a few tears falling (cos who the fuck won’t cry at their own execution?) She was ready for her execution. She kneeled there, waiting to be beheaded. She didn’t expect Sherlock to be there. 

As Steven Moffat said, “And that smiles that says ‘Got him. So totally got him.’ You know I love that moment, I think, when she smiles… SHE WINS.”

Irene won because she still got to Sherlock. She once said “I like to know people will be on my side exactly when I need them to be.” But at that point, she was phone-less and she thought she was alone. But she didn’t know she had already won when Sherlock deciphered her phone.

By deciphering her phone’s password, Sherlock had freed her from the limitations and dependency on an inanimate object. 

He took the time to keep track of her and save her miles away from London… Remember what he said earlier in the episode? He won’t leave the house for anything under a seven? He took the time to help fake her death…

And when she least expect it, Sherlock shows up at a time she had thought that all is lost. She didn’t expect that her strength, that the fact that she managed to get through to Sherlock, would save her in the end.

By falling in love, and Sherlock feeling something for Irene, she won. Because having Sherlock Holmes by her side is an asset. She is not the weaker character. They are equals.

The show ended with both of them losing (Sherlock was exposed with his attraction to Irene, Irene lost her life by risking her phone), and both of them winning (Sherlock managed to decode her phone, Irene managed to make Sherlock save her).

The show ended with both of them becoming equals. There was no dominant and there was no submissive. THEY ARE EQUALS.

AND THAT IS WHY WE SHIP THEM.

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