Epping Forest

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Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom:  Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters:  Sherlock Holmes, Dr John H. Watson
Summary:  Emergency first aid
Warnings:  (cliché)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes:  July 26th writing prompt


Epping Forest
1895

The lantern’s beam of yellow light was dim and woefully inadequate for the task at hand. He stripped off his jacket and laid it across his friend’s chest.

The injured man lay very still and uttered not a sound. His white-knuckled grasp of tufts of grass indicated his pain, but the look in his eyes spoke ultimately of trust.

Having to blindly fish among his own possessions he found the small red phial and a hypodermic needle which he positioned beside the suture kit.

‘Doctors make the worst patients,’ he grimaced.

‘And detectives make the worst doctors,’ his patient replied.

.oOOo.

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Comments

[med_cat]

A neat reversal of roles ;)

[spacedmonkey.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

[scotlandyarder.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I love how you've handled the role reversal (and how you managed to squeeze all five key words so smoothly into a drabble!)

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It seems to be a theme we've visited before!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

What lovely compliments! Thanks so much!

[dork-nerd.livejournal.com]

You are amazing! You can build a scene so vividly in so few words. Truly remarkable! Your word choices are always impeccable (and this drabble is no exception); not a single one wasted. Lovely little fic!

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Again, you spoil me! The prompt called for the use of four or five of the following words: Red, lantern, grass, fish, needle
The challenge is always to write something coherent where the mandatory words do not stick out.