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"Marriage is an archaic institution largely undertaken for financial reasons,” he says disdainfully. “It's not--I want you. You, with your godawful jumpers and a scar stretching across your shoulder, with a hot gun at the small of your back as we run across London during a downpour; you, writing up your inane blog posts-”
“Sherlock,” John warns.
“-your brilliant blog posts,” Sherlock amends seamlessly, “in your chair, in our home; you, in the bed that we share. You are essential to me, you must see that, you are my heart, the best of me and the worst are all wrapped up in who I am with you. And so you see, marriage is not sufficient--I want everything you are and simultaneously to let it all alone, so that I cannot taint it--but it’s… something.”