=== EPILOGUE: A Little Bit More ===

John reclined in his chair with the newspaper and smiled as he listened to Sherlock humming away to himself in the kitchen, and the clink of microscope slides on metal. "If you're this happy now," he said very quietly, "I can't wait to see how happy you're going to be after a blow job."

A pause and a small tinkle of breaking glass came from the kitchen. The man's senses really were positively supernatural sometimes. John snapped the paper and said loudly, "Not now."

John sat at his laptop typing his latest blog entry. Sherlock appeared with a cup of tea and set it down quietly next to John. John glanced up and said "Thank you. How very thoughtful."

Sherlock blinked long eyelashes slowly at John. "Now?"

John's lips twitched. "No, not now." He sipped his tea.

Sherlock stood by the window in his purple shirt, playing John's favourite piece on his violin, glancing surreptitiously over his shoulder at John as he played.

John sat by the fire and wiggled his toes in warm socks. "That was lovely," he murmured when Sherlock came to a break.

Sherlock raised his eyebrows.

"Nope. Not now."

John was in the kitchen stirring a simple pasta sauce when Sherlock crept up behind him and kissed the back of his neck. John couldn't stop his responsive shiver, and Sherlock pressed his body to John's and leaned down to murmur seductively in John's ear, "Now?"

Oh, you'll pay for that one, my friend. John clamped his teeth down hard on his lower lip, and then managed to say very lightly, "Not now! Pasta's ready!"

Replete with pasta and warmed by the fire, Sherlock slouched in his leather chair and scowled violently at John as he walked out of the kitchen, wiping his hands on the legs of his pyjama bottoms after having cleared the dishes. Sherlock glared at him insolently as he crossed the room. "I know, not now."

John smiled. "Actually, yes, now."

Sherlock sat up. "Now?"

John pushed him back down. "Yes. Now." And he dropped to his knees between Sherlock's legs.

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