The Dying Detective: Evicted

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Canon Story: The Dying Detective
Title: Evicted
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “There are my prisons," he continued, pointing to a row of bottles and jars which stood upon a side table. "Among those gelatine cultivations some of the very worst offenders in the world are now doing time." ...the pictures of celebrated criminals with which every wall was adorned. “...for me the microbe… for him the villain…”


Culverton Smith was poking around the attic. “So where will I sleep?”

Holmes laughed. “You’re not staying.”

He escorted Smith down the stairs and—

Holmes opened his eyes.

Picking up Smith’s police photograph, he hung it carefully on the wall.

“There!”

He smiled at all the villains in their pictorial prisons.

“Must keep my mind tidy for the next case.”

Comments

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Ha! Smith isn't even worth a storage spot in the lumber-room of Holmes' mind.

Like Peter Pan's line in the book, when after their adventure Wendy has to remind him who Captain Hook was - "I always forget them after I kill them."

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Holmes just keeps the important stuff in his mind ^___^ And that's a very appropriate quotation.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Interesting visual. Maybe the murder weapon will warrant some space.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Maybe the murder weapon will warrant some space. A very good point. To be slightly flippant: perhaps Holmes will put it in the part of his Brain-Attic labelled 'Ways I have almost killed and/or psychologically traumatised my dearest friend' ^^"

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're thinking of the box, which I agree will warrant space (probably not under the exact label you mention), but I was still thinking of the bacteria. Add it after curare and a skin disease that looks a lot like leprosy but isn't.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes, don't want stray villains wandering around the mind attic unaccompanied.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Holmes sends them out to his external memory instead. He knows where they are if he needs them for reference ^^

[debriswoman]

Fascinating...put him in his place:-)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed ^__^