The Sign of the Four, Parts I & II: Service / Normal

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Sign of the Four, Chapters 1-6
Title: Service
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: G
Author's Note: Very slowly catching up. Feel like I'm trying to restart my fiction motor like I'm restarting a lawnmower, tugging with all my might at the cord, hoping this is the time it will finally kick over and start roaring back to life.

"Don't go," I told him. "I should prefer that you remain."

This, after our contretemps about intelligence, chemistry, and survival in the stultifying everyday, was not enough to keep him. Only the protests of our new client prevented his flight.

He was willing to be of "inestimable service" to a beautiful woman, but he would not consider it for me.

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Canon Story: The Sign of the Four, Chapters 7-12
Title: Normal
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Drug use

With every injection, he tried to block out the suffocating boredom of the world around him. That so-called normal world where people fall in love and marry, where doctors practice medicine and not sharpshooting. Where the greatest danger of one's evening is usually being late for dinner and is never poisoned blow darts.

Seven percent had never seemed so low.

Comments

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

That hits right where it hurts.

[debriswoman]

Both very striking, and sad.

The last line of the second one is particularly powerful.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Both of these are bleak - and rightly so. For a pining Holmes this is a nightmare of a story.

I sympathize on trying to catch up. I am also ridiculous in the degree to which I have fallen behind. I am determined to at least keep up with reading and commenting if I can contribute nothing else. :-)