The Five Orange Pips: Closure

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Title: The Five Orange Pips: Closure
Author: gardnerhill                       
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary:  Truth, and nothing but the truth, is overrated.
                                                                                      
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“The truth, Watson.”

I looked at Holmes, slumped before the fire. Even I could have deduced from my own weary posture which case I recorded.

Holmes glared into the flames. “Do not write me rescuing Openshaw. I failed him.”

Heart aching, I touched pen to paper again.

And instead wrote the villains into a deadly storm.

Not saved, but avenged. 

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Watson (and Holmes). Those sea storms do their work, no?

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

That is an interesting thought - the storm never having happened, and actually being Watson's 'happy ending'.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

The King of Storms is Watson's hit-man. (He never did tell Holmes about lending medical aid to that grateful mer-man, and the boon he was given.)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

It definitely feels like it was stapled onto a tragic-ending story, to appease the upset readers of the tale. (That, or Watson once saved a merman's life and was given the power to summon the Storm-King three times...)

[debriswoman]

Yes...not so much a case as the recording of a tragedy.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Did you write that story? If not, I might do it for Christmas, sort of an ACD 'Gift of the Sea.'

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Be my guest! This bunny is all yours.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And a refutation of the image of the infallible Sherlock Holmes. No, he makes mistakes and loses cases too - and in this case, a client as well.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Missing, presumed lost.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Magically grew gills and are now relocated to Poseidon's underground sea-kingdom, where they are put to work on shark-spotting duty.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Nice!!! This is so eerie and wonderful and writerly and feel-y.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Writing is an amazing super-power. Among other things, it can bring justice to an unjust world.