HI MATT

[wearsthecoats]

Sherlock has:

• an armchair by the fire
• an expression of unreasonable cheer
• a mug of cold-pressed coffee
• a truly impressive collection of hickeys, accented by a well-bitten lip that only recently stopped bleeding.

Comments

[wearsthecoats]

"I don't think it's clever enough to count."

[semicharmed]

"Touche."

He yawns again, this time pushing himself onto his elbows.

[wearsthecoats]

"Ah, ascent achieved at last." Sherlock smiles up at him.

[semicharmed]

Matt sticks out his tongue.

"I'm getting there."

Now he's sitting all the way up!

And reaching over to trail his fingertips over Sherlock's collarbone.

[wearsthecoats]

He emits a cheerful kittenish hum.

[semicharmed]

He laughs softly.

[wearsthecoats]

"Hush you," he says, lazily.

[semicharmed]

Matt grins.

"I didn't say anything ..."

[wearsthecoats]

"You giggled. That's worse."

[semicharmed]

"I'm sorry," he murmurs, fingers drifting penitently up his neck.

(He is lying. It was adorable and he has no regrets.)

[wearsthecoats]

"The hell you are."

[semicharmed]

"Yeah, not really," he admits.

An untroubled ceilingward expression.

"You're welcome to try and persuade me to be, though. We've still got one more round of experiments."

[wearsthecoats]

"Mmmm. Persuade you how?" he inquires. "Does positive reinforcement or negative suit your fancy better?"

[semicharmed]

"That is a very good question."

That he doesn't get asked very often.


"It probably depends on your respective definitions." Most people, he's guessing, would find orgasm denial and self-aphrodisiac towards the more negative end of things, but his own perception is somewhat different.

[wearsthecoats]

"Let's go with positive then. Harder to fuck up."

[semicharmed]

He runs a fingertip along the edge of Sherlock's ear, up and then back down.

"That's very smart.

Positive it is."

(His brain replays good boy, and his lips twitch in amusement.)

[wearsthecoats]

"What's funny?" he wonders.

[semicharmed]

"Hm? Nothing."

[wearsthecoats]

"Liar."

[semicharmed]

He glances off to the side, grinning.

[wearsthecoats]

Sherlock snorts.

[semicharmed]

Matt rolls his eyes ceilingward again, this time in some embarrassment.


But admits, cheerfully enough, "Verbal cues."

[wearsthecoats]

"Mm?"

[semicharmed]

Oh man.

"Well you said positive reinforcement," Matt attempts to clarify, "of which praise is one type. And I remembered you said 'good boy' earlier, which I thought was funny because it should have made me feel like a golden retriever but ... kind of didn't."

[wearsthecoats]

"Oh," he reflects. "Hm. I think I like that."

He also likes the fact that he is lying down while Matt is sitting up. It's an interesting reversal.