[ Oh, he knows that Crowley is a force to be reckoned with. There's an ominous sort of mystique that trails him, dark, mysterious and dangerous - which is all the more reason to get on his good side. Ignoring him entirely and leaving his head in the sand is hardly going to get him anywhere, especially when he's already on so many people's radars. His personality isn't one that goes ignored for long, so he'll step out of the shadows when it's under his terms and he'll use his name, face and expertise to crawl his way up the social ladder.
The best way to establish oneself is by saying yes to as many opportunities as possible - he didn't gain his homeless network by alienating people, he didn't gain the help of Angelo by hiding behind a screen and hoping for the best. He put in the groundwork; he fixed shelves and he ran errands, because it meant somewhere, someone will owe him a favour in future. That's always a useful thing to have. ]
Assuming there's something to solve.
[ Because there's nothing. Nineteen days without anything significant. Nineteen days of overworking himself in order to be too exhausted to confront the fact that his mind is slowly but surely unravelling at the seams.
[ Greg honestly doesn't know what would happen if Sherlock truly came apart at the seams. He's seen his consulting detective in fairly bad ways before, and the idea of returning to any of those is not something he wants to think about. He just knows what Sherlock won't do, and if there was ever any inkling of doubt in his mind, it has long since been dismissed. ]
We'll figure something out.
[ He knows it's not going to be easy. He never expected it to be. ]
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The best way to establish oneself is by saying yes to as many opportunities as possible - he didn't gain his homeless network by alienating people, he didn't gain the help of Angelo by hiding behind a screen and hoping for the best. He put in the groundwork; he fixed shelves and he ran errands, because it meant somewhere, someone will owe him a favour in future. That's always a useful thing to have. ]
Assuming there's something to solve.
[ Because there's nothing. Nineteen days without anything significant. Nineteen days of overworking himself in order to be too exhausted to confront the fact that his mind is slowly but surely unravelling at the seams.
Eighteen days clean.
He's not sure how long that's going to last. ]
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We'll figure something out.
[ He knows it's not going to be easy. He never expected it to be. ]
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He's not so sure they will.
Not for an eternity, anyway. ]