The Six Napoleons: It Got Better

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Six Napoleons: It Gets Better
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: Even a stubborn bulldog can learn new tricks.

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“’Sallow’,” Lestrade murmured. “’Rat-faced’.”

Watson’s smile bore a hint of teeth. “Well? You learned not to take credit for someone else’s success without consent.”

“Oh Lord, did I.” The inspector held out his glass. “Heard snickering behind me for weeks after that bleeding Beeton’s came out.”

Holmes refilled, laughing. “You were the first, but not the last, to underestimate Watson.”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I think by this point they had all come to know each other better.

[debriswoman]

Excellent:-)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I love the fact they're now comfortable enough with one another to be discussing this at all. I love Watson's refusal to back down, even after all this time, and his protectiveness towards Holmes and his work. And we can see Lestrade isn't really offended any more - and neither is Holmes. (He was so annoyed at the end of STUD, wasn't he? ^_^)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Sallow is not flattering but rat-faced (?!) is downright insulting. Poor Lestrade. Who knows if he was actually rat-faced? An angry Watson might have paid the illustrator (who I am now learning was notoriously single-minded in his art!) and maybe Lestrade's forever enshrined as such.