The Fever Wards
Jul. 19th, 2015 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capt_facepalmTitle: The Fever Wards
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Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD-Compliant Gaslight)
Characters: Unidentified military hospital staff
Summary: A conversation is overheard
Warnings: (19th century healthcare, racial epithets)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 19th prompt: While you were sleeping
‘Why did you summon me? You know I do not visit the fever wards.’
‘Forgive me, doctor-sahib. I thought someone should know. This one… his fever has broken.’
‘Impossible. Nobody survives enteric fever.’
‘Perhaps if you examine—‘
‘Gawd, the smell! Cover him back up!’
‘Few can afford your fee for the privilege of fresh linens.’
‘Are you blackmailing me, you miserable muck-wallah?’
‘No, sahib, certainly not! That you are very enterprising is to be admired.’
‘Don’t you forget your place, you brown bastard. You're lucky to have this job. Now, clean him up and move him to the infirmary.’
Author:
capt_facepalmRating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD-Compliant Gaslight)
Characters: Unidentified military hospital staff
Summary: A conversation is overheard
Warnings: (19th century healthcare, racial epithets)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 19th prompt: While you were sleeping
‘Why did you summon me? You know I do not visit the fever wards.’
‘Forgive me, doctor-sahib. I thought someone should know. This one… his fever has broken.’
‘Impossible. Nobody survives enteric fever.’
‘Perhaps if you examine—‘
‘Gawd, the smell! Cover him back up!’
‘Few can afford your fee for the privilege of fresh linens.’
‘Are you blackmailing me, you miserable muck-wallah?’
‘No, sahib, certainly not! That you are very enterprising is to be admired.’
‘Don’t you forget your place, you brown bastard. You're lucky to have this job. Now, clean him up and move him to the infirmary.’
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