The Norwood Builder: Moral Support

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Norwood Builder: Moral Support
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning:  None
Summary: Possibly Watson's most important role in the firm.

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When my dear detective is in this state no words and no touch will ease him. My heart was heavy for him as much as I felt sympathy for the doomed young Mr. MacFarlane.

I wish I could do more than stand by him, silent, as he rails or sulks or expounds or deduces. But he says it is enough.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

'Tis a vital role, 'tis true.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Aw. Watson, man of action! Wants to be doing, nice to hear that being is enough.

[debriswoman]

It is indeed enough:-)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Very nice pick-up on Holmes' line. Yes, this isn't a role that should ever be underrated.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And so beautifully demonstrated in the Granada version of NORW, in one of the tenderest scenes in that series.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

When your first response to a crisis is to put up your fists or pull out your revolver, it's harder to accept that simply being there is enough in some cases.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

A man of action may have trouble understanding that he is valued for who he is, not just what he does.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

My favorite scene in all of the Granada series, hands down, is the one of Watson quietly taking care of a distraught Holmes in NORW, as a haggard sleepless Holmes admits that he'll need his friend's moral support that day.