The Abbey Grange: Confrontation

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Abbey Grange
Rating: Gen
Author’s Note: A teaser for my fic for the LJ fffc comm 1^st Froday Madness Special which is celebrating rare pairs and/or minor characters. My fic (The Five Times Hopkins Impressed Holmes and the One Time He Didn't) will be posted on March 23. Come for the Holmes/Hopkins goodness. Also, the bent coin is an idea from Small Hobbit.

“Was that him?!”

“Who, Inspector?”

“Oh, I’m a fool now, am I? Was the sailor I passed outside this address the murderer of Sir Eustace Bracknell? Better, don’t tell me. I’ll bring him to justice myself, but let me warn you, Mister Holmes, you are neither a court of law nor a god!”

A bent coin landed on the rug.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like this!

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[debriswoman]

Intrigued:-)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's a lot of case drama, but also personal drama for Holmes.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It's nice to see Hopkins standing up to Holmes and showing he's perhaps not as naive as Watson paints him. Putting his own skills as an investigator above his hero-worship.

And Holmes is playing a dangerous game deciding he and Watson know best. It may or may not have been self-defence and perhaps Crocker does deserve a second chance - but he has carried out a violent killing.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, Holmes treats Hopkins rather shabbily and I agree he's playing a dangerous game.

[sanguinity]

Oh, dear. And here we discover why the up-and-coming young Hopkins is in only three cases, and never mentioned again.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

True. If he's a stickler for the law, he's got no business here.