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After so many months of writing Iron Man and Tony Stark, trying anything that isn't set in late-aughts America is really, really really hard. I mean, insanely hard. Ridiculously, insanely, brain-bending hard. What, you mean the main detail research isn't figuring out what supermarket chain Holmes's chauffeur uses for those 3 a.m. trips to stock up on aspirin and WD-40 and supermodels for the boss?



1.

Pity the tutor who walks into a nursery room in West Sussex and finds himself facing a twelve year old Mycroft, bored and home between Michaelmas and Hilary terms, and a five year old Sherlock, eager for his first day of school.

2.

The bull-pup began as Watson's, and then, as many things do, became joint property. True to form, too, the dog did not begin by liking Holmes; Holmes had a bad history with dogs, which was not improved by his occasional experimentation on them. Watson still came in one day, though, from his rounds to find the dog sleeping with his great, drooling head upon Holmes's knee.

"Paralytic agent?"

Holmes was seated on the ottoman next to an armchair; he was in the middle of one of his silent moods, and therefore only shook his head while touching the dog's ears.

"Sleeping gas?"

Another head shake.

"Let me guess. You've glued him to the floor."

Holmes raised his eyebrows, and this time, was willing to point to the sideboard where -- where there was an entire pig stretched out. Parts had been probably been off with the hacksaw sticking out between the third and fourth ribs. Holmes had been testing how easily bodies could be taken apart after death, perhaps, and that was the decanter of madeira in the bodily cavity, too, with the stopper out. The stopper was, in fact, in the train ticket pocket of Holmes's jacket.

"Hol -- "

The dog shifted happily, burping in his sleep, and revealed that he had draped himself across both Holmes's knee and a much gnawed-upon, somewhat bloody and gobbety pig head. Watson reached into his sleeve for a handkerchief and -- a pig ear? How had Hol --

Watson pinched the space between his eyebrows with two fingers from his clean hand and, with Holmes starting to giggle like a schoolgirl, went to call for Mrs. Hudson.

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Date: 2010-01-07 03:42 pm (UTC)
ext_3685: Stylized electric-blue teapot, with blue text caption "Brewster North" (holmes)
From: [identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com
1) Oh dear, I can well believe it also I hadn't appreciated the Mycroft/Sherlock age-gap.

2) Hee! Oh, poor Watson.

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Date: 2010-01-07 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com
AGH. Thanks for mentioning that -- I mucked up the age difference because, durr, I can't do math.

Glad you enjoyed these. :D

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Date: 2010-01-07 09:02 pm (UTC)
ext_22037: (hi 5!)
From: [identity profile] flax.livejournal.com
Ahaha, your icon!

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Date: 2010-01-07 04:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phantomsangel.livejournal.com
Heee, I liked this. Poor, suffering Watson.

Ya know, I don't know much about cannon Holmes, but I could definitely be convinced to learn more, given the awesomeness of the recent flick.

<3

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Date: 2010-01-07 04:27 pm (UTC)
ext_3685: Stylized electric-blue teapot, with blue text caption "Brewster North" (buddies)
From: [identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com
Do! And if you're looking for slashable interactions, they're all right there in canon.

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Date: 2010-01-12 12:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com
Dude, let me know if you don't want to slog through the stories and cut, instead, to the audio plays. They're lovely for driving and listening along to, and there. is. so. much. glorious. awesome. in them. I was listening to one that night we spent in Ballykealey? And the CREAKING of the house and the SOUNDS in the pipes and OMG.

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Date: 2010-01-07 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amonitrate.livejournal.com
ahahahahahaha. oh god.

"Let me guess. You've glued him to the floor."

I can hear Jude Law's Watson saying this like he's in the room with me.

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Date: 2010-01-12 12:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amonitrate.livejournal.com
JOIN US. JOIN US.

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Date: 2010-01-07 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foxestacado.livejournal.com
LOL! Poor suffering Watson, an eager 5-year Sherlock, and silent moods. This is utterly perfect. You are required to write more Sherlock Holmes fic!

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Date: 2010-01-12 12:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com
HAH. Trying, but man, it's hard.

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Date: 2010-01-07 06:12 pm (UTC)
ext_2318: (Default)
From: [identity profile] dafnap.livejournal.com
I kind of love that Holmes isn't even the least bit offended that Watson jumped to all the worst conclusions at once. Also, christ, that second one if Sherlock was to ever homicidally snap, how long would it take for Watson to really notice anything outside the norm? I guess he's just glad Holmes isn't trying to get Watson to bring bodies back home again, huh...

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Date: 2010-01-12 12:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com
HOLY SHIT DAF WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME OF THE EXISTENCE OF THIS THEY DID THE END CREDITS AND ALSO GUESS WHAT SEQUENCE FROM YOU KNOW THE GREATEST SUPERHERO MOVIE OF ALL TIME HOLY SHIT CAKES?

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Date: 2010-01-07 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] pensive
I cannot explain to you my love of Mycroft Holmes in words. #1 was oh so much love. Moarrrr

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Date: 2010-01-12 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com
Man, I really want to write abotu Mycroft, mostly because I want to figure out what the older sibling to somebody as INSANELY DYSFUNCTIONAL as movie!Holmes is would look like, but dfkljglkjdf.

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Date: 2010-01-12 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] pensive
Easy. He's twice as smart, twice as kooky, and FIFTY TIMES LAZIER. XD

Just sit him in a chair and have him insanely bored with hearing absolutely anything about Sherlock's "adventures," and call out some disgustingly minute fact that would have solved the case in the first five minutes

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Date: 2010-01-07 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prosodi.livejournal.com
This is exactly my problem with sitting down and writing Holmes fic. I don't get even halfway through before I have to jerk back and go 'Wait, could that even--?'. Bother.

BUT THESE ARE WONDERFUL SO NEVER STOP.

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Date: 2010-01-12 12:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com
Dude, also, the problem of needing more data. Holmes is a bunch of style and awesome, but nothing that I can sink my characterization teeth into. We know so little about him in either the movie or the ACD canon. I just don't know where to start.

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Date: 2010-01-07 09:01 pm (UTC)
ext_22037: (MY dog)
From: [identity profile] flax.livejournal.com
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

I'm sorry, I really have nothing better to offer you right now than that. But: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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Date: 2010-01-08 11:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] besyd.livejournal.com
Hee!

OMG, I'm so happy to see your writing again.

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