The Reigate Squire: Disquiet Musing; G

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Adventure of the Reigate Squire
Title: Disquiet Musings
Author: shadowycat
Rating: G

During the train ride home, I sat quietly, contemplating my companion. He’d proclaimed our country holiday a success and looking at his smiling, happy face, I couldn’t disagree. Yet when my eyes chanced to linger on the livid marks just visible above his collar, I shivered. Was the day coming when I might not be in time to prevent disaster?

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[hisietari.livejournal.com]

As a doctor, Watson probably thinks a lot about remedies, and the risks they impose in return for the benefits they give. This is great to see here, and the place so well chosen - a train compartment, in which Watson would have the perfect space and time to study his friend. Well, and agonising himself, which he could perfectly turn off by strapping Holmes to his chair or something. ;P

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

In my own private world, Watson might indeed muse about strapping Holmes to his chair, but not to keep him safe. ;D

I think Watson knows how futile it would be to try to keep Holmes away from danger. I'm afraid his lot is to do what he can to help and...worry about what he can't help.

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

If I should suggest a title for a possible new field of study/publication to the dear doctor, it'd be "The Science of Distraction". I am sure it would be the medical breakthrough of the decade, if not century... please excuse me, I have studies to tend to. *lol*

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Indeed, a foreshadowing of what is to come.

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

Yes. Just as well, Watson has no idea what's lurking in the wings.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Oh so tragic, foreseeing a dark future we already know so well. That's one of the interesting things about reading the cases in alphabetical order -- we drift through time knowing the future in many ways better than the past, as readers. The characters,though, are chained to time in an inexorable line.

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

That's true. Holmes has always rushed headlong through life, and while the doctor is quite happy to rush right along with him, I've always got the sense that he's much more on guard for the dangers that Holmes might see but is always willing to chance if it means he'll succeed in his aims.

[snycock.livejournal.com]

Nice foreshadowing, as well as expression of what must have been Watson's thoughts on the journey home. Holmes shrugs the attack off in the story, but it was obviously severe and undoubtedly took some time to recover from.

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I think Holmes will always downplay any danger to himself. I imagine he accepts it as part and parcel of the occupation he has fashioned for himself. Watson, with his desire to be of service, is much the same. It's when that danger falls on the other that each of them is most concerned about it. :D

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

<3 Watson. So true.

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :D