The Three Garridebs: Romantic

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Three Garridebs
Title: Romantic
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. Run fast, run far, Hopkins…



“So you enjoyed the play?”

“Watson, it was glorious!” laughed Holmes. “The comic misunderstandings! The melodramatic ending! I simply cannot comprehend why no-one else was amused.”

Still chortling, Holmes went to ring for supper.

“You appear puzzled, Doctor,” sighed Hopkins.

“No, it’s just…” Watson hesitated. “I thought you were going to see ‘Romeo and Juliet’.”

Hopkins groaned quietly. “We did.”

Comments

[winryweiss.livejournal.com]

*fails to stifle her laughter* Oh, Holmes.
Awww, poor Hopkins. I bet he felt quite embarrassed.
Lovely mental picture. ^^

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Oh, Holmes is a terror ^_^ Thank you ^^

[debriswoman]

Poor, poor Hopkins:-(

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Indeed, indeed... (*giggles*)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I have visions of Hopkins pretending he didn't know Holmes when they left the theatre.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I have visions of Hopkins deciding to give up romantic relationships entirely when they left the theatre :P

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

First--I love this! It's fabulous.

But, sadly, Sherlock is technically correct. Romeo and Juliet is full of comic misunderstandings and melodramatic endings... and they used to 'fix' it up in Victorian times. Did you ever see the reenactment of Romeo and Juliet in the RSC "Nicholas Nickelby"? Very melodramatic and very (un)intentionally funny.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I feel ashamed now for wronging Mr. Holmes - naturally he would see the play as it truly was ^_^ How very interesting it was performed differently in Victorian times - I didn't know that...

Have to admit that I know very little about Romeo and Juliet - despite reading it over and over again for two years at school for my O levels ^^"

Hopefully it's a rhetorical shame...

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

I've only _had_ to read Romeo and Juliet once ; )

... but really the Nicholas Nickelby vignette is completely hysterical.