The Dancing Men: Concerned x 2

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Canon Story: The Dancing Men
Title: Concerned x 2
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: PG
Author's Note: A little bit of meta here. A couple of times recently I've used these 60s to tell Holmes what I think, but this time, I think he told me instead.


I debated what to say to him on the train. Hands folded and chin nodded, he was pretending to sleep.

Without "waking", he read my mind.

"I am fine, Doctor. In every sense. And no, you needn't worry so noisily that I'll be reaching for my cocaine bottle the minute we reach home."

"You still keep a bottle of cocaine?"

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Grey eyes finally flicked open. "That is not what I meant."

"It isn't what I am concerned about, either."

"Then what is? The case was sad; yes, I agree. Tragic, even, in an operatic sense. But tragedy is part and parcel of detective work. Not all endings are happy ones, as you and your readers should well know by now."

Comments

[methylviolet10b]

This is a perfect double. Your Holmes is so spot-on, and that last line really packs a punch.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love hearing things worked in character. :)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

So true. And even more so in life than in detective stories.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Life itself is full of tragedy, comedy, and every single possibility in between. Although it's one thing to know that fact and quite another to accept it.

You've left me very contemplative now.

[debriswoman]

Thought provoking.
Accepting that things can and will end badly sometimes is so hard to accept.