The Sign of Four Parts 1 & 2: Past, Desperation & Speech

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Canon Story: The Sign of Four
Title: Past, Desperation & Speech
Author: trillsabells
Rating: G


Many years later, as he read the escapades of his younger self, he always found himself shouting into the pages,

“Don’t take the case, you fool!”

For no exercise of the highest intellectual pleasure was worth the price that case cost him. He should have thrown Miss Mary Morstan bodily from their chambers as soon as she crossed the threshold.

~

They had to catch up, they simply had to. The thoughts of what would happen if they couldn’t capture Small, if they couldn’t retrieve the treasure, if they couldn’t make Mary Morstan a rich and unobtainable woman, were simply too painful to be borne. Somehow there had to be a way to make this boat go faster. They had to.

~

While most men would have been delighted to discover their beloved was not only beautiful but came attached to a fortune, naturally Watson was the very opposite. Never have I seen a man so exalted to see an empty treasure box but empty it was and so here we are. A toast then, to the honourable Dr and Mrs Watson!

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Speech is very true, even if it's not really the speech that Holmes wanted to make.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

True indeed.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

“Don’t take the case, you fool!”
I adore this window into Holmes' future, and then zipping back to the present, rushing in pursuit on the boat, trying to stop what we know to be inevitable.

Such a great pair of tiny stories, told in just the right order.