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methylviolet10b ([personal profile] methylviolet10b) wrote in [community profile] sherlock602013-08-26 05:31 pm
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The Adventure of the Three Garridebs: Method

Author: [livejournal.com profile] methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Summary: Holmes reads between the lines.
Warnings: Spoilers for an important event in 3GAR.
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. In this case, also inspired by the original publication date of 3GAR (1924).
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

3GAR – Method
The details have been changed almost beyond recognition; certainly beyond the ken of his casual readers. But I am no novice in understanding Watson’s writing. He is dozing in his chair, but I need not wake him to understand.

It is 1924, and although Watson’s health is failing, he is still with me. History could have so easily gone otherwise.


Extended-play edition (100 words):
The details of the case are changed almost beyond recognition; certainly beyond the ken of his casual readers. But I am no novice in understanding Watson’s writing. The detailed description of a hermit scholar cut off from all others; the almost-trivialized description of an injury (and a fall, I can still see him stagger and collapse in my mind’s eye) that l briefly believed fatal.

He is dozing in his chair, but I need not wake him to understand. It is 1924, and although Watson’s health is failing, he is still with me. History could have so easily gone otherwise.

[identity profile] spacemutineer.livejournal.com 2013-08-27 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
God, so much to love here. Retirement fic! YES. A bit of angst - Holmes is thinking he may outlive his companion. And in the longer version:

I can still see him stagger and collapse in my mind’s eye

That memory, outlined in just a few words is searing to Holmes and the reader. So well done.
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[personal profile] debriswoman 2013-08-28 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
This is a very powerful way at looking back on what could have happened.

Well done

60 Words for 60 Cases: The Three Garridebs

[identity profile] livejournal.livejournal.com 2013-08-28 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com 2013-08-28 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, so poignant ^^" Just been reading the other comments and I think I've gained a better understanding of your stories. Holmes is so sad that time is running out but grateful simultaneously for the time they have had together.

[identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com 2013-08-29 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovely insight to retirement era Holmes' thoughts.
Rational thinking machine? I think not!