[ Lestrade looks at Sherlock, to the extended hand, back up to Sherlock's face again.
And he shakes it, of course, with the same warmth and firmness that he'd use for anyone because he wouldn't think to do anything else, but he wonders what has to be going on to merit visible gratitude and an honest handshake. If he ought to be on edge and looking out for more than just a criminal mastermind, maybe (like he wouldn't be anyway). Nothing explodes and neither of them have keeled over dead by the time his hand withdraws, and he thinks it's safe enough to sit around and do all the thinking this little meeting's merited in a place where the people won't know exactly what he's thinking before he's really thought it. A single nod and he's headed to the door. ]
Mind you sit back down and hang onto the rest of your feathers. [ ...and, as he gets to the doorway: ] And look into getting curtains or something, for god's sake.
[ Places as basic and mass-produced as these, even a person who's not Sherlock is liable to get bored to tears. He'll get his two-cents in on the matter while he can. ]
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And he shakes it, of course, with the same warmth and firmness that he'd use for anyone because he wouldn't think to do anything else, but he wonders what has to be going on to merit visible gratitude and an honest handshake. If he ought to be on edge and looking out for more than just a criminal mastermind, maybe (like he wouldn't be anyway). Nothing explodes and neither of them have keeled over dead by the time his hand withdraws, and he thinks it's safe enough to sit around and do all the thinking this little meeting's merited in a place where the people won't know exactly what he's thinking before he's really thought it. A single nod and he's headed to the door. ]
Mind you sit back down and hang onto the rest of your feathers. [ ...and, as he gets to the doorway: ] And look into getting curtains or something, for god's sake.
[ Places as basic and mass-produced as these, even a person who's not Sherlock is liable to get bored to tears. He'll get his two-cents in on the matter while he can. ]