The Problem of Thor Bridge: Above All

[methylviolet10b]

Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): John Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Watson has more than one motive for writing up some of Holmes' cases.
Warnings: Blink-and-you'll-miss-it spoilers for THOR.
Word Count: 60, with a quote from THOR in italics.
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

THOR -- The Problem of Thor Bridge

The depths of winter were always hardest on Holmes, but I had never seen him so badly off as this. Nothing I did seemed to help. Worse, I saw the previously-conquered longing for the needle grow in his depressed gaze.

Desperate, I turned to the written word, hoping the black-and-white phrases might reach him as my spoken words had not.

“…had I not feared to give the public a surfeit which might react upon the reputation of the man whom above all others I revere…”

Comments

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

Quite in contrast to the descriptions in terms of "cold machine" Holmes usually gathers, hm? ;) I like the idea of him reading Watson's descriptions, especially as you use it here, as an extraordinary way of communication between the two.

[methylviolet10b]

I think getting the message across to Holmes, particularly when he's in one of his black moods, requires all the ingenuity and wit Watson can muster. Plus, I suspect he's writing the truth, at least in this instance.

Thanks!

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

I wonder... did it work?

[methylviolet10b]

That is an intriguing question! I have no idea...

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Watson, you lovely boy.

[methylviolet10b]

Watson is entirely lovely at times, isn't he?

Thank you!