An East Wind Has Come

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Title:  An East Wind Has Come
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG-13
Fandom:  Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters:  Sherlock Holmes, Sir Mycroft Holmes
Summary:  War on the Continent could no longer be forestalled and British troops have been deployed to France
Warnings:  (words in anger)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 30th 2012 prompt: betrayal and forgiveness/reconciliation

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Diogenes Club, Pall Mall
September, 1914


Sherlock Holmes, in a rare display of emotion, pushed the doorman out of the way and exploded into the silent reading room.

‘You are retired, Mycroft! What bloody business of yours was it to get Dr Watson re-commissioned?!?’

After all these years, John Watson had only asked Mycroft for this one favour.

‘England expects that every man will do his duty. Major Watson knows his duty, and I know mine. Don’t even ask. I will not have him recalled.’

‘He fulfilled his duty thirty years ago! Mark my words, brother, if anything happens to him, I will never forgive you.’

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Comments

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Mycroft would know what a good friend Watson has been throughout his association with Sherlock Holmes. And Watson would never ask for something frivolous. Of course Sherlock Holmes would want to keep Watson out of danger, and the continental war was the industrialisation of death.
(Thank you for your kind words!)