The Dancing Men: Appropriation

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Title: The Dancing Men: Appropriation
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning:  Romantic postulation.
Summary: More than one way to dance around the censors.

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“At my club?” I shook the paper festooned with dancing figures at Holmes.

A smirk. “Those dullards thought it a joke, correct?”

“A joke that caused my flushed face and a sudden need to examine the back of a chair until I’d quelled my reaction!”

“Yet you returned with all haste.”

“Bastard,” I growled, and tipped him on his back.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Watson has clearly become quite adept at reading the men (and his man!)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ha, ha! Brilliant! Those dancing men are working it!

[debriswoman]

Steady on, chaps:-p

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Holmes is a terror ^___^ I get the impression Watson appreciated it though, despite his annoyance ^___^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Since Victorian men of a certain romantic tropism needed to be able to read subtle signs and codes amongst each other, I have no doubt that both men would leap at the use of this writing method.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Victorian gentlemen of certain proclivities needed to be able to read subtle codes among each other. What a gift this exclusive writing language would make to a pair of romantics.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

If Holmes was sensible and avoided risky situations - such as sending an explicit love letter in code to his sweetheart in a public venue during Victorian times - he wouldn't have become a freakin' consulting detective would he?

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

That's why he loves the little shit.

[debriswoman]

Clearly not:-p