The Adventure of the Creeping Man: Roots

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Creeping Man
Title: Roots
Author: tweedisgood
Rated: G



He writes that I had no roots. In fact, I had one: a deep tap that threatened to suck nourishment from the healthy root system of a sturdy, flourishing English oak. Time to pluck it up, any gardener would say.

That offending plant would wither into straw now, but it was a desiccated old stick to begin with. Small loss.

Comments

[methylviolet10b]

Oooh, ouch. Your Holmes in this story really doesn't like himself, does he?

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he would think of it as a 'realistic' appraisal of his value to Watson - after all, the tone of this story (ACD apparently in one of his 'I'm only writing this for the money, how far can I go to make this golden albatross around my neck sound as offputting as possible?' moods) has Watson being fairly cutting, for him...

But yeah, ouch. What can I say: the Angst Fairy came a-calling, and I can rarely resist her charms :-)

[methylviolet10b]

Watson *is* definitely scathing in his assessment of his worth to Holmes in this, yes, and it totally works with the angst fairy. I had quite the visit from the angst fairy myself in this week's drabbles (also about Holmes' retirement, oddly enough; I must have had it on the brain). The one positive note CREE has for me is that Watson is writing about it twenty years after 1903 - which means that a) he survived WWI and b) he's still in touch with Holmes, at least to some degree. :-D

But yes, CREE definitely has ACD's "I'm SO tired of this character" written all over it.