The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter: Memorializing

[methylviolet10b]

Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson
Summary: Holmes deduces Watson's motives for memorializing this particular case.
Warnings: Spoilers for MISS.
Word Count: 60
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

MISS -- The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter

It was a trivial case to start, and so it remained, when all was said and done. Yet I understood why my Watson chose to memorialize it.

My fretful toying with a hypodermic.

His failure to recognize a famous fellow-physician.

The blonde, blue-eyed young wife, dead untimely, leaving a husband to helplessly mourn.

He wrote it to exorcise the ghosts.

Comments

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

A trivial case in the end, definitely. But you've done a beautiful job of giving it real weight here. Your Holmes always has such gorgeous, abiding sympathy for his Watson.

[hardboiledbaby]

Oh, yes, this. Very well said. :)

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you! I was surprised to realize how many serious, meaningful elements there were in MISS, actually. Always nice when I'm surprised re-reading a canon story I've read many times before!

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you! I had fun putting the various elements together. :-)

[shouldboverthis.livejournal.com]

Lovely and spare observations from Holmes on Watson.

[methylviolet10b]

Thank you so much! Holmes isn't always easy for me to write, but he definitely wanted to interject his two cents (or tuppence) worth on this one.