I came home from a lovely dinner out with friends to see this was up, and immediately told my partner I would be socially unavailable till I'd done reading it. Oh, I was so afraid the discussion of the chloral would turn into an argument!

I second what Scheming_reader says about the perfect slash line. Also so perfectly slashy: Holmes's somewhat obtuse response to the fact that Watson thought of him during the rape and that he as much as said it would have been a pleasurable experience if the other man had been Holmes. You've got to love it when smart people miss the most obvious points.

If the checking on Watson asleep doesn't get them into bed together ... !