Canon Discussion Post: The Yellow Face

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It's canon discussion time, everybody! What did you think about The Yellow Face? As always, I've written up a few of my own random thoughts and questions, which are behind the jump. Add your own in the comments!

No Granada discussion this week, but we'll have The Greek Interpreter to watch next week.

( Onward to canon talk - The Yellow Face )

The Yellow Face: Doubt

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Canon Story: The Yellow Face
Title: Doubt
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: PG
Warning: UST
Author's Note: I've been completely unable to get my fiction muse moving of late. I have so much catching up to do! *embarrassed*

"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt," I assured Munro with confidence as we committed ourselves to a felony and finding the truth, come what may.

I am a hypocrite, of course.

Tonight I shall again sit across from the greatest question of my life, and never once risk discovering the true desires of the heart that beats inside him.

The Yellow Face: The Munro's Cook's Cat

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Canon Story: The Yellow Face
Title: The Munro's Cook's Cat
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I am praised because I am such a good mouser; my brother for his lovely purr (although why that should be so appreciated I fail to see).  One of us is white and one black, but that makes no difference to us, (or to the pretty tabby next door).  So why should it make one to a self-styled superior species?

The Yellow Face: Home From Holmes

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Canon Story: The Yellow Face
Title: Home From Holmes
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
A/N: Jane discovers her first real family bonds.


God knows how many times in all these years I’ve tried to end Mycroft Holmes’s pathetic existence – and yet, as these things go, I don’t feel that urge quite so often anymore. Watson isn’t allowed to mention it for security reasons, but I accompany Holmes to Baker Street a lot, and we aren’t the only members of its extended family.

The Yellow Face: Truth and Doubt

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Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Summary: Holmes reflects on the lessons learned from Effie, Lucy, and Grant Munro.
Warnings: Slight spoilers for YELL.
Word Count: 60, plus two quotes from the story itself, in italics. Plus an extended-play version. What can I say? This one got away from me.
Author's
Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

YELL – Truth and Doubt

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Our journey to Baker Street was silent. I was consumed by my observations. Where doubt existed, love and trust withered.

How many times had I concealed the truth from Watson in the course of our cases? Demanded his unquestioning faith?

How long until Watson’s trust became doubt?

By the time we reached our rooms, I knew what I must say.

"Watson…if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."

  

Extended-play version (100 words):

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

I plucked Watson’s sleeve, and we quietly withdrew, leaving the unique little family to their privacy – and their newfound happiness. We were both quiet on our return trip to Baker Street. I could not say what preoccupied Watson’s thoughts, but I knew what consumed mine. The lesson was impossible to mistake: where doubt existed, love and trust withered.

How many times had I concealed the truth from Watson in the course of our cases? Demanded his unquestioning faith?

How long until Watson’s trust became doubt?

By the time we reached our rooms, I knew what I would say to him.

"Watson…if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."