The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax: History Repeats

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax: History Repeats
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: Relationship postulated.
Summary: They had gotten away at the end, after all. And they have an M.O.

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They escaped, after the horror they inflicted on Lady Frances over her few baubles.

They must have seen the pearl on Watson’s watch-fob, a memento of his first spouse.

I tear through the cemetery; another gathering lowers a too-large coffin into the ground.

If I am too late, no rope will keep me from what I do to those two.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Nope, Holmes will not be too late!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And while Watson's sitting up in the coffin and gasping for fresh unchloroformed air and the mourners scream and the vicar faints, the two villains slip away to that ship waiting to take them on a nice safe sea voyage...

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yes, of all the villains, these are the ones that ACD chose to let slip through. I mean, wow. Holding a woman captive for weeks and burying her alive? For money? They deserve the vitrol-throwing, too. Get 'em, Holmes!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm sure Holmes has set aside a liner to take those two on a trip across the sea. What could possibly go wrong?

"...Oh dear," Watson says a week later, reading the news.

[debriswoman]

Oh...that’s a scary thought!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

The great Victorian terror - the fear of being buried alive. I'm sure this story gave a lot of readers nightmares.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes, echoing Small Hobbit - Holmes will definitely, definitely not be too late ^^"

I can see Peters and Fraser maybe trying this for revenge against Holmes, with the pearl just being a bonus.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Too bad Peters and Fraser decided to flee to Australia via ship. Things happen on long sea voyages, especially when you anger a man who has Poseidon on speed-dial.

A week later, Watson's still a bit weak from the chloroform but with a returned appetite, and reads the newspaper. "Oh dear..."