The Adventure of the Retired Colourman: Natural Advantages

[methylviolet10b]

Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Summary: Holmes does not understand why Watson fails to see.
Warnings:  Mild spoilers for RETI.
Word Count: 60, plus an extended-play version (100 words)
Author's Notes:  60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

RETI – Natural Advantages
Watson’s failure to use his natural advantages in the course of our cases never fails to aggravate me. With the daily evidence before his eyes – that of an unsociable, cynical, solitary detective craving his company and conversation, sharing cases, lodgings, and life with him – how can he ever doubt his being able to draw out anyone he chooses to notice?


Extended-play version (100 words):
Watson’s failure to use his natural advantages in the course of our cases aggravates me. His looks alone would be sufficient, but it is the heart of the man that truly wins confidences.

He says he does not think of doing so, and to some extent I believe him. He is naturally modest. But with the daily evidence before his eyes – that of charming an unsociable, cynical, solitary detective into craving his company and conversation, sharing his cases, lodgings, and life with him – how can he ever doubt his being able to draw out anyone else he chooses to notice?

Comments

Sunday, 14 July 2013

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User thisprettywren referenced to your post from Sunday, 14 July 2013 (http://holmesian-news.livejournal.com/300353.html) saying: [...] by (Holmes, Watson | G | ACD) Natural Advantages [...]

[debriswoman]

As is usual with your work, keenly observed:-)

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you!

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Ah, you do wonders with both of these, but you get an enormous amount of feeling out of those extra 40 in the extended play. The "anyone else" is really the bit that kicks it over the top for me. Fab.

[methylviolet10b]

Thanks! It's so hard to get everything I want to get into those 60 words sometimes.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Both are very nice, but the drabble is made with sprinkles of Win!

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you! Some weeks, 100 words is just so much better than 60. :-)