The Three Garridebs: But If I Did

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Three Garridebs: But If I Did
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Disgustingly sappy (well, for Holmes)
Summary: Sherlock Holmes had posited a rhetorical question at the end of “Devil’s Foot.”
                                                                                       
***

“I have my answer, Watson.”

I looked up, startled at the first words Holmes had uttered since we’d turned Evans over to Lestrade.

“You witnessed it.” He steepled his fingers. “I would, indeed, act as did Dr. Sterndale, or Jefferson Hope, under identical circumstances.”

I blinked stinging eyes.

Identical.

How efficient of Holmes to condense three oft-used words into one.

Comments

[jcporter1.livejournal.com]

Great last line!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I also did a 221b on this same topic, Wisdom (http://archiveofourown.org/works/3421670), which pretty much expands on this one.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

He's so efficient. Yet so schmoopy.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I.e., so Holmes.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Watson got a very Holmesian 'I love you'

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Watson is an able translator of Sherlockese.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Good to see Holmes realise the fact.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Must have scared the hell out of Holmes to make that epiphany - to suddenly understand crimes of passion to their very core.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Echoing the applause for that wonderful last line.

I like to think that Holmes would never go through with killing a man in cold blood when it came down to it. But I accept he's come to the realisation he loves Watson so much, he'd want to.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"Oh dear God, THIS feeling is what made Jefferson Hope pursue two men for 20 years just to kill them. And now I completely understand."

[debriswoman]

Wonderful...last line puts it beautifully.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Holmes despises repetition and approves of efficiency - even to declarations of love, it seems.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

So in character, and the last line is the top.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I figured that's how a man like Holmes would make his declaration.