The Three Garridebs: Influence, G

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The Three Garridebs

Author: tweedisgood

Title: Influence

Rating; G

Notes: Sorry, folks. All the angsty, shippy potential and I went for the humour. The conjuction of dates (ACD was knighted in October 1902, this story is set in June of that year) and my personal headcanon for the Holmes and Doyle relationship was irresistible.





“I see Doyle is to be knighted, Holmes.”

“I suppose his mother insisted. I am fortunate that you made no such protest, my dear Watson.”

“As you very well know, there are two reasons for that: one, you wouldn't have listened to me; two, you didn't even tell me until afterwards.”

“It slipped my mind.”

Comments

[ennui-enigma.livejournal.com]

ha,ha, ha! "It slipped my mind." I can just hear Holmes saying something like that :)
Great piece of writing!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Yes, he was quite good at not giving away anything he didn't want to.

Thanks!

[mistyzeo.livejournal.com]

lololol oh holmes stop that

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Selective speech as well as selective hearing has become a bad habit with him.... Thanks.

[numberthescars.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, this was perfect! I needed a good laugh, thank you. :D

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

My pleasure. Thank you for this (and all the other) lovely comments.

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

Priorities, priorities. *lol* I like your headcanon. ;)

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

I gave it free rein in my latest, but elements of "Holmes finds Doyle irritating" creep in to several of my stories. I love to play "The Game".

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

It is quite just, I think, given the nature of Doyle's feelings for the character.

[debriswoman]

Typical Holmes:-)

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Bit incorrigible, ain't he?

[debriswoman]

Dependably so!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Very conveniently forgotten Holmes!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

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[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

“It slipped my mind.”

Quite convenient, that! I'm glad you went for the knighthood angle. I was curious about that too. Do you think Mycroft had anything to do with it, either getting it started or stopping it for Holmes?

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Well, one can perfectly well refuse a knighthood if it is offered, no machination required behind the scenes. As to the other, I'm fairly sure that would be deeply frowned upon nowadays - outright nepotism and all that. In 1902, I'm not so sure. "Bob's your uncle" and all that...

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

Have you read the Conan-Doyle biography Teller of Tales by Daniel Stashower?

http://www.amazon.com/Teller-Tales-Arthur-Conan-Doyle/dp/0805050744

He points out that Watson, he of the wandering dates and recall, is very specific about when Holmes refused the Knighthood...

and (of course) this was another fine piece in your collection, which i very much enjoyed.

but i disagree about the lack of any machination in today's award lists - which are considered by many to have been debased to a laughing stock over the last 20 years.

on the other hand, i wonder if Mycroft was ever knighted???

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