The Reigate Squires: Fullest Freedom

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Reigate Squires: Fullest Freedom
Author: gardnerhill                      
Word Count: 60                   
Rating: R
Warning: Postulation rather more than hinted at here.
Summary: Another Watson rewrite needed. I always wondered about Col. Hayter’s estate…

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A fortnight of unbridled homosexual congress with me, the Colonel, and every handsome servant on the estate (in various combinations) restored my work-worn friend to a blithe mood.

“Dull case for a storyteller,” Holmes murmured, his head in my lap; George the valet dozed, still sprawled across Holmes’ buttocks.

“Maupertuis?” I kissed him. “I’ll concoct a strange little murder here.”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Perfectly plausible.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

There's about a dozen clues in the way Watson writes about Hayter and his estate.

[debriswoman]

So...Watson less a chronicler of fact, more a writer of crime fiction :-p

(And...good heavens!! )

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Reigate is such a weird story - we get hints of a huge take-down of a major criminal, but the case Watson writes about is a petty little land-squabble murder.

And I'm just saying the way Col Hayter and the estate were described ticks a lot of clue boxes about "gay retreat."

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

A bachelor's establishment, indeed!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"Bachelor" in the "if we say anything uncoded out loud we can literally go to prison" sense of the word, yes.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Lovely to see everyone enjoying themselves ^___^ And I always did think the facts in REIG didn't quite add up... ^__^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounded like a whooole lotta Oscar-Wilde-era coding for "psst, this is the best gay party house outside of London."

[mafief.livejournal.com]

Yup, and yup. That story almost doesn't require slash goggles.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Doesn't take much - and sounds like a lot more fun than feigning fainting and breaking orange bowls but that's just me.