Foxhole Diplomacy

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Title: Foxhole Diplomacy
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Major John Watson, RAMC, Dr Heinz (Heinrich) Woeller (OC)
Summary: A clandestine medical conference, March 1918
Warnings: (none)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 21st 2014 prompt: Constrained Compassion

.oOOo.

‘Dr Watson, is it?’

‘Yes, Herr Woeller. I’m glad you agreed to meet me. I’ve one of your chappies. He’s in a bad way; shrapnel everywhere. We did what we could but… well, we lost our thoracic surgeon…’

‘You would  give him back to me, your enemy?’

‘I was told that you were tops in your field. He needs your help now.’

‘Unilateral repatriation of prisoners is treason, and very risky, but I think we should do it.’

‘It’s ironic. In a war where medals are given for weapons innovation, we’d face firing-squads for trying to save one poor soldier.’

.oOOo.

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Comments

[monkeybard]

Honor between enemies. Very Watson. Nice!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Given the situation, I could not write Watson any other way.

[ancalime8301]

Such a Watson thing to do. :)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I would hope that Watson would take this kind of action.

[maestress83.livejournal.com]

Good to see the War doesn't stop them from honoring their Oath. But with Watson, was there any doubt? :)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

There is no doubt that Watson is a man with great personal integrity. I only wish I could write him having to struggle with it more.

[methylviolet10b]

So very Watson. Well done!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Very moving.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Both Watson and Woeller swore another oath that joins them before the ones they took to join the armies that divide them.

That last line is reminiscent of one in the book THE SINGING TREE, a YA novel that was my introduction to WWI: "It's a crazy world, son, where it's a man's duty to kill and a sin to comfort his wife."

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Watson and Woeller are cut from the same cloth.

[debriswoman]

*Cheers Watson on.*

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Go, Watson!