Silver Lining Pastoral
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capt_facepalmTitle: Silver Lining Pastoral
Author:capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Dr John H. Watson, MD, Mr Sherlock Holmes, retired consulting detective
Summary: Retirement era vignette
Warning: (No internet, no laptop, no beta)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 7th 2018 prompt: And Now The Weather.
.oOOo.
‘Go on without me, dear fellow. This cloudburst need not catch us both.’
‘Are you sure, Watson?’
‘Absolutely. Your sensibilities are positively feline when it comes to getting wet.’
‘I can wait, you know.’
‘I’ll be fine, Holmes. I have dry clothes in the cottage and if you were to stoke the fire, I should be right as rain.’
‘Ha! Hurry along, then. I’ll put the kettle on.’
Watson had made a promise, years ago in a faraway desert, to never begrudge the rain. He closed his eyes and raised his face to steady stream from the heavens, and smiled.
Author:
capt_facepalm Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Dr John H. Watson, MD, Mr Sherlock Holmes, retired consulting detective
Summary: Retirement era vignette
Warning: (No internet, no laptop, no beta)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 7th 2018 prompt: And Now The Weather.
.oOOo.
‘Go on without me, dear fellow. This cloudburst need not catch us both.’
‘Are you sure, Watson?’
‘Absolutely. Your sensibilities are positively feline when it comes to getting wet.’
‘I can wait, you know.’
‘I’ll be fine, Holmes. I have dry clothes in the cottage and if you were to stoke the fire, I should be right as rain.’
‘Ha! Hurry along, then. I’ll put the kettle on.’
Watson had made a promise, years ago in a faraway desert, to never begrudge the rain. He closed his eyes and raised his face to steady stream from the heavens, and smiled.
.oOOo.
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Supplementary Notes:
This one took an unexpected turn and was rewritten, twice.
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Supplementary Notes:
This one took an unexpected turn and was rewritten, twice.
