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Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson
Summary: Casework requires attention to details.
Warnings: Some spoilers for DEVI, so if you haven't read that, you might not want to read this.
Word Count: 60, plus an extended-play version (125 words)
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.
DEVI – The Devil’s in the Details
It was not Dr. Agar’s learned arguments that convinced me to try the rest cure, but Watson’s silent ones. His features, as ever, were faithful servants, and I read the truth in them.
Watson found me an exhausting patient. But the events at Poldhu Bay – and one near-fatal experiment in particular – showed he was right to fear for my abilities.
Extended-play version (125 words):
It was not Dr. Agar’s voluble, learned arguments that finally convinced me to try the rest cure, but Watson’s silent ones. His features, as ever, were faithful servants, and I read the true gravity of the matter in them.
Even so, I did not submit without resistance, and Watson found me an exhausting patient over the interval that followed. But the events at Poldhu Bay – and one near-fatal experiment in particular – showed he was right to fear for my abilities.
Had I been myself, I would never have chosen such a volatile and uncontrolled method of testing my hypothesis about the powder. Nor would I have missed the utter fatigue, mental and physical, that led Watson to participate in my mad trial of the stuff.
methylviolet10bRating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson
Summary: Casework requires attention to details.
Warnings: Some spoilers for DEVI, so if you haven't read that, you might not want to read this.
Word Count: 60, plus an extended-play version (125 words)
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.
DEVI – The Devil’s in the Details
It was not Dr. Agar’s learned arguments that convinced me to try the rest cure, but Watson’s silent ones. His features, as ever, were faithful servants, and I read the truth in them.
Watson found me an exhausting patient. But the events at Poldhu Bay – and one near-fatal experiment in particular – showed he was right to fear for my abilities.
Extended-play version (125 words):
It was not Dr. Agar’s voluble, learned arguments that finally convinced me to try the rest cure, but Watson’s silent ones. His features, as ever, were faithful servants, and I read the true gravity of the matter in them.
Even so, I did not submit without resistance, and Watson found me an exhausting patient over the interval that followed. But the events at Poldhu Bay – and one near-fatal experiment in particular – showed he was right to fear for my abilities.
Had I been myself, I would never have chosen such a volatile and uncontrolled method of testing my hypothesis about the powder. Nor would I have missed the utter fatigue, mental and physical, that led Watson to participate in my mad trial of the stuff.
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Date: 2013-06-30 04:07 pm (UTC)That is powerful and moving. God, I always adore your Holmes and Watson. And I love in the longer version, you explain why Watson goes along with this madness - exhaustion. Having a valid explanation makes a world of difference. Such great work.
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Date: 2013-07-02 05:08 am (UTC)I also wondered, if speculation that Holmes was trying (again) to kick the drug habit in DEVI is true, whether Holmes might have dosed himself when presented with a case? That, too, might explain his utter stupidity in the experiment - and if you want to take a darker look at it, might also explain Watson's despairing agreement to undertake the ordeal with him...
That all would have taken far too many words to explore, though. ;-)
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Date: 2013-06-30 05:55 pm (UTC)His actions were reckless and foolhardy at least...
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Date: 2013-07-02 05:09 am (UTC)Sunday, 30 June 2013
Date: 2013-07-01 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-01 02:14 am (UTC)Well done!
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Date: 2013-07-02 05:09 am (UTC)