shirozora-draws:
Joan Watson is a disgraced former surgeon who joined Starfleet and became a biologist. Sherlock Holmes is the smartest security officer on the USS Enterprise. Together they solve mysteries on the ship and name previously unknown species of alien bees after each other.
It’s 3:30 AM I should stop the TOS marathon and sleep.
silvertons:
Why are you quoting Antony and Cleopatra? There was an oncologist I knew. He used to recite that to himself whenever he had to deliver a bad prognosis. It’s just a reminder to speak simply and honestly to a patient and not sugarcoat the bad news.
lifeisjustalonelyhighway:
“I think I could have done a better job explaining why it’s important. At least explaining why it’s important to me. When you and I first started, I quickly recognized your merits, both as a detective in your own right and in that you facilitated my own process. I’m better at the work I do because of you. But over the years the relative importance of those two values has flipped. I now value the work that we do, first and foremost, because I do it with you. So if at times I seem overprotective of the system that we’ve built if I worry that the resentments of others might disrupt it, I have good reason.”
silvertons:
When you and I first started, I quickly recognized your merits, both as a detective in your own right and in that you facilitated my own process.
silvertons:
I’m sorry that I lied to you, Watson. The last few days have been quite vexing. Even now, I’m not certain if I’ve done the right thing in allowing M to live. It’s strange, really. I’m rarely conflicted about the decisions I make. That’s the beauty of deductive reasoning, I suppose. It makes a science of almost everything. Not this.
silvertons:
Are you even afraid of him? I find fear to be an unproductive filter with which to view the world. It dampens my powers of observation. Can’t you just answer a question like a normal human being? As I mentioned earlier, he clearly doesn’t want to kill me, so, no, I’m not afraid. Well, there are ways to hurt you that do not involve hurting you. Watson, you know that there are risks entailed in the work that I– that we– perform. You cannot do the work without undertaking those risks. But know this: as far as Moriarty is concerned…
