I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face

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Title: I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Good Doctor, Evil Professor
Summary: Protecting the innocent
Warnings: Definitely
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 6th 2014 prompt: For me? A botanical gift.

.oOOo.

‘Well, Professor, you have returned. What nefarious plot are you up to now?’

‘See here, my good fellow: I have just as much right to be here as you do.’

‘Is that so? Our flower girl says that you have been propositioning her.’

‘For elocution lessons-- ‘

‘Really? Is that what they’re calling it these days!’

‘Good heavens, Doctor. Your mind is in the gutter. It is an experiment, to settle a small wager. Nothing more, I assure you!’

‘Forgive me if I don’t believe you. You’ve paid for your posies, so shove off. And stay away, you lecherous blackguard!’

.oOOo.

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Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

"And no-one will believe you if you claim your name is Professor 'Iggins".

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Professors are evil!
*evil grin*

[med_cat]

Haha, love this!

A crossover that hasn't been done before, made all the more amusing by the identity of the actor who played Freddy in the film version ;)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
This prompt positively stinks with meta!

[med_cat]

Hee hee ;)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Actually...Nicholas Meyer hinted in his SH book THE WEST END HORROR that GB Shaw used Holmes and Watson as models for Henry Higgins and Col. Pickering. (Models? PYGMALION is Holmes fanfic - with a lovely dollop of awareness of class privilege missing from the Doyle stories.)

[med_cat]

Hmm, now there's a thought ;)

[sabrinaphynn.livejournal.com]

:) this just makes me happy in soooo many ways. Huzzah for meta prompts!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I made myself laugh at this one.

[debriswoman]

Yep, nobody would believe such a motive:-)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Lecherous professors had better watch their step when Dr Watson is involved!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm pretty sure GB Shaw was a Holmesian, and that PYGMALION was his fanfic. (He obviously wanted to talk about class distinctions and privileges Doyle left out of his tales.)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

I agree!
I don't recall anything in Doyle's Holmes that mentioned class distinctions and privilege directly. Perhaps there is something in the descriptions of the minor players, or in the way that Holmes treats high and low with equal haughtiness (which would have made a bigger impact on his contemporary readers than it does on readers today).

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Lovely little 'stealth' cameo!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Hehehe!
Stealth cameo is stealth!
(Thanks!)

[pompey01.livejournal.com]

If any two fandoms were begging for a crossover, it was these two!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

This was my second (of three) approaches for this prompt and by far the best of that lot.

[monkeybard]

This is wonderfully giggle-worthy. :-)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!
I love it when the humour works

[ancalime8301]

Hahaha, clever! :)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This was fun to write!