The Red-Headed League: "Last Year" and "Almost Famous"

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I couldn't make a decision, so here are two fics for REDH, one depressing and one not.

Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: Last Year
Author: Inner Voice
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Word count is excluding the 8 words by ACD. The Final Problem takes place in April-May 1891, The Red-Headed League was published in August 1891.


“One day in the autumn of last year,” I write. I stare at the words, which seem as strange and bewildering as if they had not come from my own pen. Last year? It feels like an agonizing decade since—

I cannot even think the words.

And yet it also feels like I could walk to Baker Street at this very moment and find Holmes there as always.

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Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: Almost Famous
Author: Inner Voice
Rating: G

A shilling is good money for half-a-day of play-acting, and so we made a family outing of it: fourteen cousins in all, including Lucy who insisted that she made a passable young man with her red pigtails tucked into a cap.

We’d forgotten it until, months later, Lucy ran in waving a magazine and yelling we were in the Strand!

The Red-Headed League: Discipline

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Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: Discipline
Author: Hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Avoiding the sentence "We can't giggle, it's a crime scene" might be harder than suppressing the actual giggle.


Don’t look at Watson’s face… that twitching around his mouth, hardly concealed, the minimal creases at his eyelids, how the muscles in his throat contract in an attempt to keep in control...
Concentrate on the case.

Oh no, please, not the Encyclopaedia…

Dear Lord, I’ll never be able to keep a straight face in front of a red-headed man again.

The Red-Headed League - Encyclopedic

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Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: Encyclopedic
Author: snycock
Category: Gen
Rating: G

“Ah, Watson,” Holmes said, “would that I was a red-headed man.”

“You can’t be serious!”

His eyes twinkled. “Not to be so deceived, no. But to spend one’s days in such pure pursuit of knowledge?…”

“And to receive a handsome sum for it as well,” I pointed out.

“L’argent, c’est rien,” Holmes said, waving his hand, “La connaissance, c’est tout.”