Link #this does all kinds of confusing things to my feelings #im not sure if the op meant that sherlock beat jim #but i dont see it that way #i see sherlock as losing just as much as jim did #and this hurts me #and i dont mean that either of them won any game #but the fact that #as many other sheriarty shippers before me have said #as many after me will say #they lost one another #and well sherlock lives on #so he suffers the greater loss in that way #oh my god it hurts #oh my god what if that was just the entire point #to trust others #to care for them #to place his reputation in the hands of his friends #but to think #with this stupid adventure #this desire to be a pirate #what might we deduce about his heart #that lost him jim just when he had connected with him #for the first time #its awful enough to learn a lesson at the last minute #its even worse to learn it a few moments too late