The 'Gloria Scott': Missed Opportunity

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Canon Story: The 'Gloria Scott'
Title: Missed Opportunity
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “...it's time we were all sent to a young misses' boarding-school.” (GLOR) “I was placed, however, in a comfortable boarding establishment at Edinburgh... In the year 1878 my father... came home. He telegraphed to me from London…” (SIGN) I’m ignoring here the bizarrely incongruous timeline in GLOR and going with the usual idea that Holmes was born in 1854.


Rhona rushed into the form room. “Did you hear about Mary Morstan’s father? Disappeared without trace in London! Sounds supernatural to me...”

“Don’t be daft. There’ll be a logical solution.” Ishbel considered. “Perhaps Mary should see that fellow my brother knows.”

“Who’s being daft now?”

Rhona took her place.

“If the police can’t help, what could this ‘Sherlock Holmes’ do?”

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Word of mouth is the best advertisement, Holmes! But better if your client doesn't die of shock or run off to India.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

But better if your client doesn't die of shock or run off to India. So, so true ^^"

[debriswoman]

Now that would have changed things a little:-)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It would indeed ^^ There might be an interesting AU waiting to be told there.

[debriswoman]

So many possibilities:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And two red threads of Fate move past each other, missing by a hair.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I do find it a very interesting thought - Holmes and Mary could have met 10 years earlier, if only Holmes had found the case in the paper intriguing enough to seek Miss Morstan out.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

"Don't be ridiculous, Ishbel. Holmes doesn't want a group of schoolgirls chasing after him."

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Writing fanfiction and making sketches to post to their friends...