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[devoutish]

Yeah?

[That's it, that's all you get.]

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[jumpthegun]

[Right. Planes aren't... terribly big in Alfie's time, probably.]

I mean I'll support you if you're trying to pull. Help you, talk you up.

[devoutish]

["Trying to pull" isn't a familiar term either, but he gets the gist of that one.]

No, no; no need for that. Truthfully, right, I'm the more reluctant one. She showed interest from the start.

[jumpthegun]

[That's even more reason not to compete, as far as John's concerned.]

Then she's interested in you, and I'll let her have that for as long as she's interested.

[devoutish]

Noble man.

[jumpthegun]

Practical man. You're the bad boy. I'm the good boy. If she's interested in bad boys, that doesn't bode well for my chances.

[devoutish]

Usually that's the younger women - the ones who want to rebel against their fathers, make them angry. Very good for me when I was a younger man.

[jumpthegun]

I don't doubt it. The uniform helped when I was in the Army. Girls liked that. The jumpers are less sexy these days. Have to admit it.

Not to mention the unbathed hobo look here. But that's everyone's problem.

[devoutish]

No more six-continents Watson?

[jumpthegun]

We seem to have moved on from continents and onto different universes. I think I mentioned to you I wasn't dating for a good while before I got here, though? Sherlock kept me busy, and he doesn't like me being 'distracted.'

[And even John can agree that romance is a distraction. A very pleasant distraction.]

[devoutish]

He rules your personal life now, too? That's a bit much. That's more than a bit much.

[jumpthegun]

I'm joking, Alfie. [Only a little bit.] The work we were doing didn't mesh well with long-term relationships. I chose my priorities.

[And they'd always been with Sherlock.]

[devoutish]

[HE'S NOT CONVINCED, WATSON. But, for once, he's also not really in a mood to needle and nag.]

Well - I'll tell you how it goes.

[It's kind of nice, having someone to talk women with. It reminds him of home, a little, and god knows he can't talk to Royce about this kind of thing.

And then he switches topics abruptly, to something he'd been thinking about a few days earlier.]

When were you born? What year?

[jumpthegun]

[There's a pause because that's a very abrupt change.]

...1973. Why?

[devoutish]

[He does the math quickly, in his head.]

I'll be ninety-four when you're born, if I manage to live that long.

[If they manage to get out of here.]

Curious thing to think about.

[jumpthegun]

Should I start calling you grandfather?

[devoutish]

When your modern medicine gives me a robotic heart and lungs to help me live forever, I'll find you on the street at age six or seven and give you a shilling.

[jumpthegun]

A shilling doesn't get you very far in my day. Although, I suppose... hold onto a few from the 1920s. Those'll be worth a lot to coin collectors someday.

[devoutish]

How far does a shilling take you?

[jumpthegun]

Nowhere, honestly. We don't use shillings anymore.

[devoutish]

Have you switched currencies entirely?

[jumpthegun]

No, we've still got the pound, but everything's on the decimal system. You've got some weird mechanics back in the day, I think? It's a hundred pennies make a pound now. No shillings. There was talk about switching over to the Euro--that's what everyone else uses on the Continent as part of the common market--but I doubt that'll happen any time soon.

[devoutish]

You've got a common market now, too? Why would you want that?

[jumpthegun]

Well, it makes everything cheaper for one thing. And we've got the European Union properly. It's not just the market that's integrated. There's free movement between Euro countries for work and the like.

[devoutish]

Is it all of Europe?

[Ew.]

[jumpthegun]

A lot of it. Switzerland's not part of it and some of the eastern bloc countries are still getting their economies and governments in order to be able to apply for membership.