The Devil's Foot

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
Title: Affinities
Author: wild_huntress
Rating: PG
Warnings: none


His evident concern for justice and his invocation of the only person he loved settled the matter as readily as they called to mind my own, half-buried problem. Through long habit I betrayed nothing; I would hardly be so foolish as to look at my Watson just now, though I admit I was silent a while.

I have never loved...

Canon Story: The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
Title: A Study in Tortoiseshell
Author: wild_huntress
Rating: G
Warnings: Um... humour, possibly rather irreverent humour?
Author's notes: Cut for mood whiplash (compared to the above piece), space and possibly stretching the challenge. This is not set during The Devil's Foot, but it is very much inspired by Holmes's knocking-over-the-flowerpot incident - since I find it hard to accept that every "misstep" he ever made was really a necessary and meaningful part of his sleuthing. ( Here's a slightly more ambiguous incident. )