The Six Napoleons: If These Walls Could Talk...

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Six Napoleons
Rating: G
Author's Note: ...No. 131 was one of a row, all flat-chested, respectable, and most unromantic dwellings.

Look, No. 129, there’s the scoundrel, and he’s coming this way!
Oh, No. 131, he makes my foundations quake with rage! Why I’d like to show him a thing!
Flat-chested!
Unromantic!
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“Watson, whatever is the matter?”
“Holmes, I was back in Kensington today, near Harker’s, and I could swear that the buildings themselves were, well, out to get me!”
“Brandy?”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Watson better hope he never has to venture inside one of those houses - he may not leave unharmed.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Can't help but think Frankles would've done a better job with this, but it was such an odd trio of descriptors for a building, it's almost as if he's thinking of something/someone else...

[debriswoman]

A great pick up from canon, and a wonderful image:-)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Very odd description of a building so the farce wrote itself.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

^_____^

'Flat-chested' is a particularly odd choice for a house though, isn't it? I suppose Watson means they don't have bay windows but still... ^__^

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

It is very odd. Thanks!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Reminiscent of Dickens' description of Scrooge's home being set so far back in the alley it looked as if it had played hide-and-seek as a young house and had gotten lost.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

An odd description. Maybe ol' Artie was thinking of someone/thing else...

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"Note to self: do NOT write when one's body is starved for, er, intimacy."

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Heh, heh, why do you think I write in the first place?! When you're a kid, they're imaginary friends, when you're a ficcer it's character development :)