The Crooked Man: Comrades in Arms

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Title: The Crooked Man: Comrades in Arms
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary:  A sequel of sorts to last year’s 60-word entry on this story.
                                                                                       
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“You look a sight better, Corporal Wood.”

The gnarled solder smiled, creasing his face even more. “My pension’s made all the difference, Doctor. I can’t begin to repay you for that letter you wrote to the Army Board.”

Watson waved away the man’s words. “Think of it as a salute from another wounded sub-Continental soldier. We understand each other, daihik*.”

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* Hindi for “Corporal”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I guessed you would go in this direction, knowing your fondness for the pairing.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - Watson and Wood are my wheelhouse!

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

You and hobbit are on the same train again. Very nice of Watson.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Surely another soldier who'd been in India and had been traumatised in service would see a mirror in poor Corporal Wood.

[debriswoman]

Nicely done...typical Watson:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Poor Wood didn't have a consulting detective of his own.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I liked this bit of description: The gnarled solder smiled, creasing his face even more. And I loved Watson's “Think of it as a salute..." So well put ^^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine Watson - a wounded soldier from the sub-Continent - dealing with this case without being strongly affected by it. And very likely realising that there, but for the grace of Sherlock Holmes, goes John Watson.