The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Grace

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Grace
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary:  There’s all sorts of poor, helpless worms.
                                                                                       
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Watson avoided a fatal bullet in Afghanistan. He came to London, and in meeting him I avoided one myself.

For I have seen solitary addicts dying in slums, and aristocrats’ overdoses disguised as illness by relatives to hide empty lives and lonely deaths.

How often have I paraphrased Baxter:

There, but for the grace of John Watson, goes Sherlock Holmes.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Some things are meant to be.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Touching thought. Love it.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Watson avoided a fatal bullet in Afghanistan. He came to London, and in meeting him I avoided one myself. I like that a lot. With regard to all aspects of his life, professional and personal, Holmes was lucky to have met Watson.

[debriswoman]

Both had good fortune in meeting:-)

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Excellent! A very strong 60.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Coincidence? The universe is rarely so lazy.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

They saved each other - and both of them know it.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Without Watson, Holmes' brilliant, fragile persona would have flown apart like a cracked flywheel under cocaine, stress, recklessness - and without Holmes, Watson could have easily become another former soldier lost in peacetime, drinking and gambling himself into poverty and an early grave.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

There is no reality where they do not find each other.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thank you. When Holmes counts his blessings the first one is the man breakfasting with him.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I loved this.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thank you. So do I - I firmly believe they saved each other.