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Title: Long weekend
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: Watson suffers from fire.
Warnings: guns
Author's Notes: BBC Sherlock-verse. Fill for July 18 picture prompt:
Word Count: 150

Flame covered John's back )

Penalty

Jul. 18th, 2011 12:07 am
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Title: Penalty
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: Holmes needs just one shot.
Warnings: guns
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Fill for July 17 prompt: "Dialogue fic - a story told entirely with dialogue.  Sound effects are permitted if you need them."
Word Count: 100

 


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Title: Peer Review
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: spacemutineer and methylviolet10b's 60 for 60 challenge: Week 4: The Adventure of The Blanched Soldier
Warnings: blood
Word Count: 60

Watson laid aside the manuscript. )


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Title: Creative instincts
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: Holmes objects to Watson's writing.
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Fill for July 16 prompt:

"Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of Ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship FRIESLAND, which so nearly cost us both our lives." 

Make of this prompt what you will; you can do the case, the aftermath, modernize it into a non-Doyle canon, or merely reference it in your fic.


Word Count: 250

Read more... )

 

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Title: Artistic Mercy II
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, Lestrade
Summary: Holmes does not accurately record the ending to a case.
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Fill for July 15 prompt: "Fix a canon scene." This fixes the end of "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier." For the a discussion of the etiology of Godfrey's affliction, see  this discussion, which, although I am no doctor, seemed reasonably trustworthy. (I've also got another repair to canon, whose title I've cannibalized here: Artistic Mercy I is my 60 for 60 entry for "The Abbey Grange.")
Word Count: 276

Watson flung down the paper with a grimace of disgust. )

 

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Title: Dignity
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, Lestrade
Summary: TLC for Watson, who is in no condition to appreciate it.
Warnings: Major character death (highlight to read; it's a bit spoilery), angst
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Two entries for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 14 prompt: "TLC, whatever form (and rating) that means to you.  Meaning TLC for Watson, not given by." I'm afraid that, although Watson is receiving TLC, there is not so much comfort in this story. (However, the request for comfort was under the prompt, not part of it, so I'm disregarding that portion.)
Word Count: 100

Holmes couldn't bear to see him like this . . . )

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Title
: Guest
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: TLC for Watson, comfortless grief for Holmes.
Warnings: Major character death (highlight to read; it's a bit spoilery), angst
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Two entries for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 14 prompt: "TLC, whatever form (and rating) that means to you.  Meaning TLC for Watson, not given by." I'm afraid that, although Watson is receiving TLC, there is not so much comfort in these ficlets. (However, the request for comfort was under the prompt, not part of it, so I'm disregarding that portion.)
Word Count: 221B

Watson's lanky body shivered on the settee . . . )

 

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Title: Basis in Fact
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, Lestrade
Summary: For once, Holmes respects common opinion.
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 13 prompt: "Superstition  (lack thereof, consequences thereof, or whatever perks your muse) "
Word Count: 100

 

Lestrade was not pleased about the paint )

 


Secrets

Jul. 12th, 2011 11:05 pm
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Title: Secrets
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, Mrs Hudson
Summary: Holmes's instinctive behavior is not rational
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 12 prompt: "Quote - 'I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.' -- William Hazlitt, 1826 (Direct quotation not necessary; use however you're inspired to do so.)"
Word Count: 361

When Mrs Hudson entered to clear away the breakfast dishes, she was tempted simply to turn a blind eye . . . )

 

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Title: Scientific method
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: spacemutineer and methylviolet10b's 60 for 60 challenge: Week 3: The Adventure of Black Peter
Warnings: blood
Word Count: 60

 

9:00: Objections to blood dripping on the carpets (Hudson, Mrs.). )

 


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Title: The fate of the hamster
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, OFFA (="original female fuzzy animal")
Summary: Holmes and Watson acquire a new pet.
Warnings: Tarantulas (highlight to read; it's a bit of a spoiler and I promise nothing bad happens, but some people get twitchy around this)
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 11 prompt: "kitten (or another equally fuzzy animal)."
Word Count: 1,115

Holmes burst into the flat, exuberant. )



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Title: Starting point
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Lestrade (Watson is absent but salient)
Summary: Lestrade weighs the reliability of clues.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: BBC Sherlock universe. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 10 prompt: "Midnight summons." Can be read as a companion to my July 8th response, Late, and my July 9th response, Waiting. It seems to have turned out as a 221B.
Word Count: 221

Lestrade was uneasy. )

 


Waiting

Jul. 9th, 2011 10:00 pm
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Title: Waiting
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Watson, 3 unnamed OMCs
Summary: Watson hates waiting.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: BBC Sherlock universe. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 9 prompt: "Stress/exhaustion or stress management." Can be read as a companion to my July 8th response, Late.
Word Count: 797
       
John was uneasy. )



Late

Jul. 8th, 2011 10:46 pm
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Title: Late
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, (Watson is salient, but not present)
Summary: Sherlock is late.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: BBC Sherlock-verse. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 8 prompt: click link for picture.
Word Count: 326

Sherlock was uneasy )
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Title: No end in sight
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson,
Summary: Sometimes you just need a break, and sometimes you just can't get it.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 7 prompt: "Falling  (however you want to interpret or extrapolate from that, is up to you)"
Word Count: 100


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Title: Visit to a weird holodeck revisited
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, Data, La Forge
Summary: The holodeck never gets it right, and the Guardian must have a sense of humor.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: Sherlock Holmes/Star Trek: TNG/Sherlock Holmes crossover. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 6 prompt: "Wacky, off-the-wall crossover - the weirder, the better." I'm afraid I'm not good at wacky or off-the-wall, but I figured a layer or two of recursion might be fun.
Word Count: 813

 

There was a moment of dizziness and quite alarming tunnel vision that took several seconds to clear. )
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Title: The Elements of Style
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: PG
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: Before Strunk and White, there was John Watson to uphold the principles of good writing.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: ACD universe. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 5 prompt: "If actions speak louder than words, how is the pen mightier than the sword?"
Word Count: 100

Nichols's laugh revealed decayed teeth and truly dreadful halitosis. )
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Title: Caesar's legacy
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: PG
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: The Eastern Orthodox calendar provides a crucial clue in a kidnapping, so Holmes decides to celebrate. This Calvin and Hobbes comic strip also provides a reasonably good summary.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: ACD universe. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 4 prompt: "Celebration of a non-British holiday  (either legitimate or not; crack/fluff is acceptable for this prompt). " I figure that Russian Christmas in January counts as sufficiently non-British.
Word Count: 381

 

A cold rain streamed down heavily over London . . . )
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Title: Woman's instincts
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: spacemutineer and methylviolet10b's 60 for 60 challenge: Week 2: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
Warnings: none
Word Count: 60;

Sherlock Holmes did not believe in feminine intuition. )


Going home

Jul. 3rd, 2011 08:25 pm
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Title: Going home
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: PG
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, nameless OFC
Summary: Car crash
Warnings: non-graphic car-crash injuries
Author's Notes: BBC Sherlock universe. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 3 prompt: The Hospital Ship, by W. H. Littlejohn.
Word Count
: 100

A squeal and a crash stopped them. )

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Title: Make the morning last
Author: [personal profile] leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, OFC
Summary: An American tourist strikes out on her own, and encounters Holmes feelin' groovy, Watson less so.
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: BBC Sherlock universe. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 1 & 2 prompt: 1: Watson injury (any severity) from a different POV from Holmes; 2: rain, lamp-post, handkerchief, flowers. For background, feel free to read the lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel's 59th Street Bridge Song.
Word Count
: 919

Courtney was fuming . . . )
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