The Noble Bachelor: Deja Vu

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Title: The Noble Bachelor: Deja Vu
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Romantic but not explicit pairing implied.
Summary: A beloved spouse returns from the dead.
                                                                                       
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I wrote everything down faithfully, and hid my smile at the California woman’s melodramatic words: I fainted dead away… …sick for months… …thought it was his ghost at first…

…And remembered every word with crystal clarity even as I came to in my office, with the taste of brandy on my lips and a dead man’s eyes gazing at me.
 

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Most excellently noted and written! Thank you.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Not so fanciful after all, eh Watson?

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's a heck of a lot of foreshadowing going on in that story ^^"

Incidentally, I suppose Moulton's dramatic reappearance is more forgivable - he had no other way of contacting his wife. Holmes seems to delight in his dramatic (and for Watson, rather traumatic) reveal. I rather like the theory though (in a fleetwoodmouse fic I think) that Holmes accidentally bumps into Watson and then simply can't wait any longer - thus the rather ill-judged reunion.

[tripleransom.livejournal.com]

Good comparison!

[debriswoman]

Poignantly linked together

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

He may have to write Hatty a letter of apology.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Holmes had a choice in the matter unlike Moulton. I like my own theory that sometime during the Hiatus Watson stalked over to the Diogenes and then held Mycroft out of a second-story window until he fessed up: "Let's see if you bounce, shall we?"

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

A long lost companion back from the dead? Where have I seen that one before?

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Months of grief and fainting at the emotional shock aren't just for women in Doyle's stories, clearly.

[tripleransom.livejournal.com]

Well, after 60 stories there was bound to be a little recycling.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Nobody's every really dead in Doyle's world. Except the poor dogs :(

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And that poor snake is still stuck in that safe.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Aw.... this is very sweet.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Doyle had a romantic heart.