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    In the wake of Moriarty's unveiling, John Watson must traverse the pitfalls of friendship (while on the hunt for a killer) and learn just what lengths he'll have to go through to have Sherlock Holmes as a partner.

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    Sherlock swallowed. "This case is important to me, John. It comes first."

    "I know."

    "You will not interfere with my feelings on it. Just as it will not interfere with my feelings about you. These things are to remain separate within me. You have to understand that."

    "I do. I understand."

    They were an inch apart now, building heat in each other's eyes. Sherlock's blazed with pale fire, while John's roiled dark like the sulfur vents at the bottom of the sea. They lived as two things purely elemental, opposite and true.

    "And you will still have me?"
    //

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