Silver Lining Pastoral

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Title: 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.

.oOOo.

Please sign the guestbook

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Supplementary Notes:
This one took an unexpected turn and was rewritten, twice.

Comments

[violsva]

Awww, Watson. :)

[luthienberen]

Lovely: their friendship and Watson's promise of long-ago.

[gardnerhill]

Makes perfect sense. Some things indelibly change you.

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I wanted to write Watson being happy about the rain. The angst fairy fluttered around for a few iterations but found nowhere to perch.

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I hardly ever write retirement era.

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I was dead set against writing about my current stinking hot weather.

[med_cat]

Very nice :)

[(Anonymous)]

Nopicelyput, he was indeed as right as rain:-)
Mrs P

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I wrote this very much to the contrary of the weather of the day.

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! A little pun tried to sneak in.

[bwblack]

I love, love, love Watson appreciating the rain due to his time in Afghanistan! LOVE.

[capt_facepalm]

Thank you so much!
I like rain in limited doses.