Fic for Ghostbees: I'm the board, the lightning, the thunder

[holmesticemods]

Title: i'm the board, the lightning, the thunder

Recipient: ghostbees/vernets

Author: REDACTED

Verse: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

Characters/Pairings:
Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, Jenny Vandeleur/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson

Rating: Teen and up, for a couple of mild references to drug use and violence, but both are canon-typical.

Warnings: none

Summary: The Silk Stocking case is Holmes' last. After he retires to Sussex, Jenny knows better than her husband exactly what Sherlock Holmes needs.

To my recipient:
Hi, Ghostbees. I hope this story fulfils your desire for character-centred musings and introspective portraits; I've tried to facilitate that by bringing Jenny to the foreground.

This is a retirement-era fic, but cosy domesticity is always juuust off waiting in the wings.

This Holmes is happily gay, and I used Jenny's (canonical) tolerance to avoid any period-typical homophobia, but I hope you'll forgive me for letting Jenny realise that fact well in advance of her husband.


Read on AO3: i'm the board, the lightning, the thunder

Comments

[ghostbees]

I'm so gobsmacked about how perfect my gift is, thank you mysterious gifter for this gem. Think you can't read it because you're not familiar with the verse? Well, you should anyway. Also Silk Stocking is definitely worth a watch!! It has got probably the best screen Mrs Watson! It's on youtube! Only 1h40m long!