The Adventure of the Copper Beeches: No Sister of Mine

[methylviolet10b]

Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Holmes wonders what might have been. 
Warnings:  Mild spoilers for The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.
Word Count: 60, plus an extended-play version
Author's Notes:  60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

COPP – No Sister of Mine

I could not help speculating on it. Nothing about her physically was similar, but the self-sufficiency, the intelligence, the determination; qualities so like what I remembered.

No sister of mine would have been foolish enough – or reduced enough – as to fall into Rucastle’s mysterious scheme, but I could not help but wonder what she would have become, had she lived.

Extended-play version (100 words):

I could not help reflecting on it, long after Miss Hunter had left for her position. In fact, the question haunted me for weeks. Nothing about her physically was similar, but the self-sufficiency, the intelligence, the determination; all these were so like what I remembered. And she, like Mycroft and myself, would have had to make her own way. Marriage, had she been so inclined, and so lucky; or some form of employment.

No, no sister of mine would have fallen into Rucastle’s mysterious scheme, but I could not help but wonder what she would have become, had she lived.

Comments

[fenm.livejournal.com]

Oooohh... )-:

[methylviolet10b]

Yeah. The way he kept coming back to "No sister of mine..." really jumped out at me.

Thank you!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Aww. Sorry to hear you are feeling unwell.

[methylviolet10b]

Thanks. It's going around, unfortunately...

[debriswoman]

An intriguing notion.

Get well soon:-)

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you for the compliment and for the good wishes!

Sunday, 27 January 2013

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

User thisprettywren referenced to your post from Sunday, 27 January 2013 (http://holmesian-news.livejournal.com/264429.html) saying: [...] by (Holmes, Watson | PG-13 | BBC) Drabbles, Ficlets, & 221b's No Sister of Mine [...]

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Ah, you open such fascinating cans of worms. I wonder what this mysterious sister was like, how she died, what her relationship was with her brothers...

So much goodness here, oh my!

[methylviolet10b]

Definitely all mysteries. It is fascinating to speculate what any sister of Sherlock and Mycroft would be like!

Thank you!