Noble Bachelor: Conversations over a Bottle

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Noble Bachelor
Rating: Gen
Summary: Pining Holmes pines.

You address the bottle’s spider-nest shawl.
‘But what is love without display, public or private?’
Oh, Watson.
It is a poem written in the sand before the incoming tide.
It is a serenade in an empty house.
It is making pawns of men so that an heiress’s treasure lies at the bottom of the Thames.
That is love.
Isn’t it?

Comments

[debriswoman]

Beautifully put:-)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Aw, so sad. Poor Holmes.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I can't imagine him being unselfishly happy for Watson.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

A serenade in an empty house? So lovely...

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I imagine that he plays for Watson even (especially?) when he's not there.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

The words "Certainly, if you've nothing better to do."

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I go back and forth on how oblivious Watson might be to Holmes's feelings.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Your poor Holmes always rather breaks my heart.

And I love that phrase the bottle’s spider-nest shawl.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Doyle himself gives us a nice image to play with, with the bottles, and yeah, my Holmes is hardly ever happy. :(