A Scandal in Bohemia: Keen Desire (G)

[vaysh]

Canon Story: A Scandal in Bohemia
Title: A Keen Desire
Author: vaysh
Rating: G
Words: 60
Author's Notes: Title is taking from this line: As I passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing ..., I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again.


Eight months into our marriage Mary told me Holmes was an invert and I the object of his private wooing. Yet Holmes often contemplated the late Irene Adler's photograph. I convinced myself he was longing for the gentler comforts of married life. But then he would look at me and play his melancholy tunes, and I knew Mary was right.

Comments

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

How bittersweet! Leave it to Mary to observe what Watson failed to, even though it was under his nose the whole time.

The statement that Watson associates Holmes's door with "wooing" struck me as rather telling. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought so!

[vaysh]

Watson's heterosexuality is certainly not as unshaken as ACD makes it out to be. Rather telling, indeed. ;)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

That's a very neat play on Watson's reference to his "wooing". So sad.

[vaysh]

It is sad to imagine Sherlock Holmes, the man of no emotions, with his affections for Watson unreturned. Not my favourite scenario, but it suggested itself by Watson's reference, yes.

[debriswoman]

Intrigued:-p

[vaysh]

That is all I wanted. ;)