Much Ado About Nothing

verity-burns:

JOHN (huffily): I’m not a dog, you know.
SHERLOCK (absently): Hush. Thinking.
JOHN (after a while): Well, why do I have to be here? Go and think somewhere else.
SHERLOCK (still petting): Shh
JOHN (fed up): I do have other things I could be doing.
SHERLOCK (scratching behind his ear): It’s better with you here.
JOHN (doubtfully): What is?
SHERLOCK (in his ‘this is obvious’ voice): Everything.
JOHN (smiling secretly): Oh, all right then.
SHERLOCK (kissing the top of his head): Shhhh…