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All of the above items have been carefully ranked They all must come before 5, the hardest of all, which is to Keep Watson Happy (One ue that I rank this the lowest on my priority list because it proves to be the most difficult, and I dislike failure) What does Watson want? To have us at our happiest and also to be in romantic love In our case, because I as are mutually exclusive He is a boy and he is in love withbecause it loves him, you see Of course it does And so it all co, and he begins casting around for so of interest in all that dark If I a to a boy like hiht that Watson and I had all the trappings of a standard romantic relationship--absolute exclusivity, obsessive intensity, constant argu--and have been confused as to whatAn unwieldy, i

(My last roorically romantic, per se, but it certainly also involved crime Carload of cocaine, local constabulary, etc)

Watson still hadn’t stirred By in dis down at hian to think I thought perhaps Watson had a brain injury Perhaps there was a chance that he wouldn’t wake up, perhaps I would be left in this basement, alone, and then killed, or even worse, rescued by my omnipotent asshole of an older brother and then left to contend with August Moriarty, Huain do the thing where he al the street and overco his arain be able to say his name, Watson, in the way I say it to him, with affection and also a certain kind of despair, and then I forbadeany more about Watson at all

The best way to help hi I’ve often found this to be the case

The base chair and broke off its legs by bashing it against the floor Taking the sharpest-looking piece of wood, I tested it for length and weight and then knelt again next to Watson on the floor I checked hi to flutter, but he didn’t respond to either my touch or my voice With luck, in another two athered about our situation

This wasn’t Hadrian and Phillipa’s pri bon vivants would live in the warehouse district, and the walls were cinder block under their paint We’d been taken to some secondary property

Fro chemicals in the air, I assued the art they produced

Even if I broke us out through the ell, I’d still have an incapacitated Watson and an empty road in the middle of nowhere Milo was in Thailand, and while I know he kept a tail on me most times, I wasn’t sure how or how quickly he’d respond to encyfor aid and transportation I would wait on that)

Any bug Milo had placed on me had been hacked by the Moriartys, ained consciousness and called his boss That car had come at my request (I took the next twenty-seven seconds to locate that bug--he’d had it sewn into the sleeve of my jacket--and then crushed it with ust’s fault as ht was correct (one untied shoe, his keys nearly falling out of his back pocket), August had ione to Hadrian for help in finding Leander August, like ust, even when driven to his absolute liust would assess the situation and go to his brother to atteo to Hadrian, he’d said in ht before he left, and when the dust settles, we’ll know exactly how he’s involved Just bide your time Who, indeed, needed money and resources when one had a Moriarty with a heart three sizes too big?

I couldn’t blah the thick walls, I could hear a banging sound upstairs It had the hollow ring of soust, iven hi Watson to that party Boy probleht to ain this time, I did it rather harder than I needed to

His eyes flew open "Hol sound His mouth ollen; his jaw, too And his eyes And his nose was broken

Looking at hiers I would stomp on first

"Don’t talk," I told Watson, because I didn’t want hi you so that you don’t physically react There will be a body I’ll remove it We’ll haul you up the stairs, and one or the other of theive us an address, and then ue"

This was ave, so I was unsurprised by Watson’s apparent confusion