sherlock60 | The Red-Headed League: "Last Year" and "Almost Famous"

I couldn't make a decision, so here are two fics for REDH, one depressing and one not.

Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: Last Year
Author: Inner Voice
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Word count is excluding the 8 words by ACD. The Final Problem takes place in April-May 1891, The Red-Headed League was published in August 1891.

“One day in the autumn of last year,” I write. I stare at the words, which seem as strange and bewildering as if they had not come from my own pen. Last year? It feels like an agonizing decade since—

I cannot even think the words.

And yet it also feels like I could walk to Baker Street at this very moment and find Holmes there as always.

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Canon Story: The Red-Headed League
Title: Almost Famous
Author: Inner Voice
Rating: G

A shilling is good money for half-a-day of play-acting, and so we made a family outing of it: fourteen cousins in all, including Lucy who insisted that she made a passable young man with her red pigtails tucked into a cap.

We’d forgotten it until, months later, Lucy ran in waving a magazine and yelling we were in the Strand!