A New Dawning

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Title: A New Dawning
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Mr Sherlock Holmes, Dr John H. Watson
Summary: Holmes' observation of his new fellow-lodger
Warnings: (none)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 4th 2014 prompt: Poem Prompt (Excerpt from Whitman's Song of the Banner at Daybreak)

.oOOo.

My fellow-lodger sits at his desk and the words flow effortlessly from his pen.

Writing has become his purpose and his vivid imagination takes him places where his pain and disability do not exist.

Watson looks up and gives me a smile to reassure me that he is content.

But he is a terrible liar even when he says not a word. In his heart, he is a man of action, not a man of words, so to be confined to our Baker Street flat day after day eats away at his soul.

Perhaps my investigations will engage his interest.

.oOOo.

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Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this thoughtful drabble. Indeed, the canon Holmes might very well have considered this.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words. I always try to write ACD canon Holmes as mindful of his friend, even if he doesn't always show it.

[debriswoman]

Sad
Beautifully put:-)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
It's not really too sad... it gets much better!

[maestress83.livejournal.com]

And the rest is history.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

And the rest is history... Erm, fiction... Erm, fan-fiction!
I like writing the early years' stories best.
:-)

[med_cat]

Excellent! Very IC; and angsty but not overly so :)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I try to to keep our heroes in character, and rein in the angst. (Except when I don't!)

[med_cat]

You do a good job :)

[leone (from livejournal.com)]

That's a much nicer reason for him to draw Watson into his work than stung pride from Watson's laughter at his article.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I try to write Holmes a little less abrasive than ACD canon.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And of course doing it in that lovely, offhanded manner - "Oh, certainly, if you've nothing better to do" - to show it's not a charity case.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Good point there!
Watson would not accept charity gracefully.

[methylviolet10b]

A lovely drabble. Brava!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thank you.
I had to fight with this one a bit.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like it!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think my favourite period is when they are first getting to know each other.

[hagstrom]

I fell in love with this.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks!

[pompey01.livejournal.com]

Ohh, poor Watson! Good for Holmes for seeing through him AND doing something about it.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Although he doesn't show it all the time, Holmes is s good friend to Watson, and the good doctor deserves to have good friends.

[ancalime8301]

Aw, what a nice look at it from the other side! :)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Doyle wrote Holmes as a jerk to Watson sometimes and BBC seems to have taken it even further. I prefer to write canon verse Holmes and Watson as good friends to each other despite how Watson's stories may seem, and keeping in mind Victorian societal morality.

[ancalime8301]

Yes! How they handle Holmes' personality is the biggest problem I have with the BBC series. The fics based on BBC are generally better about it, but that's one reason I almost exclusively stick to Victorian era in reading and writing.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

To me, BBC is about caricature and not character. This is why whenever I try to write BBC, it ends up cracky.

[ancalime8301]

That's a good way of putting it. :)