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I don’t know how

It’s not the bomb he didn’t know how to defuse. It was John’s anger. His expression, his helplessness, his apology… those were all very real. He also needed to make it safe for John, whom he knows has trouble with expressing his feelings, to hear his apology and to forgive him. John needed it as much as Sherlock needed to hear it. And then they needed to laugh together again. At last.