watsonshoneybee:watsonshoneybee:Sherlock is actually attempting to be charming to Sarah when he...

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Sherlock is actually attempting to be charming to Sarah when he first meets her, he does the smile and everything, like we joke a lot about him being jealous of her but he is actually quite nice to her in the majority of direct interactions with her

This is exactly what he does to Mary, by the way. He is nice to her. He tries to be friendly. Because he knows John is not now and will never be his and he can only be friends with John.

With Jeanette in ASIB, Sherlock is just in a more vulnerable place, much closer to John, having to face his emotions as forced by Irene, reading clues that look like maybe John could be interested? feeling down that John isn’t interested, and generally just having a harder time with the whole spectrum of their relationship as shifting back and forth between friends and more than friends with Irene in the way.

CIRCULAR.

Ugh, yes, this resonates perfectly. Totally. God, I love Sherlock.