I even did one really far-out AU where Holmes reacts with reserve when Watson's hit… I’ve just read “Fixed It For You” ^^ It’s rather believable actually, isn’t it? Holmes keeping his cool. I suppose in the canon version, Watson is perfectly right - we are seeing part of Holmes that we don’t normally see.
Frankly, Evans getting sprung from jail by knowing the right politicians is the sort of thing that's still going on today in Chicago - if he did a favor to a corrupt cop or two they'd look the other way while he lined up an escape plan. It just surprises me a little with reference to Evans. He seems so unimportant - just a petty criminal, with a tendency to get in gun fights and kill people. But perhaps that’s just how he seems in England.
Perhaps things got awkward between them after such a naked revelation… Yes, that’s a very interesting thought - no big declaration afterwards; it was simply the fact it had happened that changed things. ...they may have had a fight over Holmes ordering Watson not to come with him on the next case and Watson telling Holmes where he could stick his sudden protectiveness. Again, that’s not something I’d considered before - Holmes suddenly becoming aware how vulnerable Watson was.
As for Holmes' threat to Evans? I really, truly believe that something bad happening to Watson is Holmes' Berserk Button - the one thing that could make him commit murder in the hot blood of revenge. He'd turn himself in to face prison or the rope afterward, but with no remorse. As I’ve said to rachelindeed, I perhaps put Holmes up on a pedestal - I’m happy for him to show his humanity in terms of demonstrating his love for Watson, but I flinch at him having the negative aspects of being human too. I want him to be a better person than the rest of us, which is unfair to him. I have to accept that Holmes might have lost control and murdered Evans if Watson had died. Thank God it didn’t come to that for everyone’s sake.
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I even did one really far-out AU where Holmes reacts with reserve when Watson's hit… I’ve just read “Fixed It For You” ^^ It’s rather believable actually, isn’t it? Holmes keeping his cool. I suppose in the canon version, Watson is perfectly right - we are seeing part of Holmes that we don’t normally see.
Frankly, Evans getting sprung from jail by knowing the right politicians is the sort of thing that's still going on today in Chicago - if he did a favor to a corrupt cop or two they'd look the other way while he lined up an escape plan. It just surprises me a little with reference to Evans. He seems so unimportant - just a petty criminal, with a tendency to get in gun fights and kill people. But perhaps that’s just how he seems in England.
Perhaps things got awkward between them after such a naked revelation… Yes, that’s a very interesting thought - no big declaration afterwards; it was simply the fact it had happened that changed things. ...they may have had a fight over Holmes ordering Watson not to come with him on the next case and Watson telling Holmes where he could stick his sudden protectiveness. Again, that’s not something I’d considered before - Holmes suddenly becoming aware how vulnerable Watson was.
As for Holmes' threat to Evans? I really, truly believe that something bad happening to Watson is Holmes' Berserk Button - the one thing that could make him commit murder in the hot blood of revenge. He'd turn himself in to face prison or the rope afterward, but with no remorse. As I’ve said to rachelindeed, I perhaps put Holmes up on a pedestal - I’m happy for him to show his humanity in terms of demonstrating his love for Watson, but I flinch at him having the negative aspects of being human too. I want him to be a better person than the rest of us, which is unfair to him. I have to accept that Holmes might have lost control and murdered Evans if Watson had died. Thank God it didn’t come to that for everyone’s sake.