John Watson's Schooldays
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capt_facepalmTitle: John Watson's Schooldays
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Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Dr John H. Watson, MD, late of the Army Medical Department
Summary: Watson comes across the first thing he ever wrote as a child. It turns out to be prophetic.
Warnings: (bends the prompt a bit)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 13th prompt: A Tale Foretold.
Few items of Dr Watson’s childhood survived his transitions from boy to student and then from student to soldier. It was a wonder that this particular sheet of foolscap was found intact. It had been one of several written in his wobbly seven-years-old’s scrawl of the same line repeated.
I must always tell the truth.
Watson cannot recall the offence which raised the schoolmaster’s ire, but he does remember the punishment: receiving the strap in front of his whole class, the fear, the inability to suppress his tears, the humiliation, and being made to write lines with his blistered hand.
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capt_facepalmRating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Dr John H. Watson, MD, late of the Army Medical Department
Summary: Watson comes across the first thing he ever wrote as a child. It turns out to be prophetic.
Warnings: (bends the prompt a bit)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 13th prompt: A Tale Foretold.
Few items of Dr Watson’s childhood survived his transitions from boy to student and then from student to soldier. It was a wonder that this particular sheet of foolscap was found intact. It had been one of several written in his wobbly seven-years-old’s scrawl of the same line repeated.
I must always tell the truth.
Watson cannot recall the offence which raised the schoolmaster’s ire, but he does remember the punishment: receiving the strap in front of his whole class, the fear, the inability to suppress his tears, the humiliation, and being made to write lines with his blistered hand.
.oOOo.
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Date: 2015-07-14 05:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-28 11:08 pm (UTC)At least he grows up to be a good man.
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Date: 2015-07-16 08:15 pm (UTC)One can build an essay out of that statement...
I thought you'd use the "story" Doyle wrote when he was five :P
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Date: 2015-07-28 11:10 pm (UTC)And I thought others would have him write very heroic tales.
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Date: 2015-07-29 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-18 08:13 pm (UTC)...and somehow, I can't think that he learned the lesson the way that teacher meant it...
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Date: 2015-07-28 11:11 pm (UTC)(Thanks!)
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Date: 2015-07-20 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-28 11:11 pm (UTC)School was tough for kids back then.
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