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* PersonaNonGrata: In one ficlet, it's revealed that St. Bart's banned Holmes from several classes.
* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: One ficlet has Holmes suffering a HeroicBSOD after figuring out that his client hired him to cover up his own atrocities. He wonders if it's even worth continuing to fight evil, given that he's never going to be able to stem the tide. However, then he sees Watson helping a young family into a cab and paying the driver for them. To Watson's absolute confusion, he pats him on the shoulder and tells him "thank you."
* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: One ficlet has Holmes suffering a HeroicBSOD after figuring out that his client hired him to cover up his own atrocities. He wonders if it's even worth continuing to fight evil, given that he's never going to be able to stem the tide. However, then he sees Watson helping a young family into a cab and paying the driver for them. To Watson's absolute confusion, he pats him on the shoulder and tells him "thank you."
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* RevengeViaStorytelling: Watson, trying to write, finds his efforts disrupted by Holmes shooting the surroundings with cork-tipped blow darts in an effort to assuage his boredom. The doctor decides that he's going to portray the client who gave Holmes the blow gun as a complete idiot when he writes the account.
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* {{Feghoot}}: The entirety of "Boswell" (in whic Holmes and Watson are wandering around the woods) is the setup for Watson quipping that Holmes is "lost period, with or without his Boswell."
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: "Bowl" features Holmes and Watson implicitly swearing at each other after Watson finds out Holmes stored a (possibly poisonous) red leech in their sugar bowl for lack of a better place to put it. However, Watson only says that his response was rude and Holmes' was "even less sophisticated", and he cites this as one of the reasons he never intends the general public to hear this story.
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** "Bowl" features Holmes and Watson implicitly swearing at each other after Watson finds out Holmes stored a (possibly poisonous) red leech in their sugar bowl for lack of a better place to put it. However, Watson only says that his response was rude and Holmes' was "even less sophisticated", and he cites this as one of the reasons he never intends the general public to hear thisstory.story.
** "Blush II" shows Holmes emptying half a pitcher of water over Watson's head when the doctor resists all efforts at awakening him one December morning. Holmes remarks that the resultant "names" Watson calls him would have made a sailor blush, but he doesn't say which specific words he's using.
** "Bowl" features Holmes and Watson implicitly swearing at each other after Watson finds out Holmes stored a (possibly poisonous) red leech in their sugar bowl for lack of a better place to put it. However, Watson only says that his response was rude and Holmes' was "even less sophisticated", and he cites this as one of the reasons he never intends the general public to hear this
** "Blush II" shows Holmes emptying half a pitcher of water over Watson's head when the doctor resists all efforts at awakening him one December morning. Holmes remarks that the resultant "names" Watson calls him would have made a sailor blush, but he doesn't say which specific words he's using.
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* WaterWakeup: Holmes tries to wake up Watson for a case on a freezing December morning, only for the doctor to ignore him in an effort to go back to sleep. Holmes ultimately resorts to emptying half a pitcher of water over Watson's head. This produces the desired result, along with a stream of army language.
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* {{Feghoot}}: The entirety of "Boswell" (in whic Holmes and Watson are wandering around the woods) is the setup for Watson quipping that Holmes is "lost period, with or without his Boswell."
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: "Bowl" features Holmes and Watson implicitly swearing at each other after Watson finds out Holmes stored a (possibly poisonous) red leech in their sugar bowl for lack of a better place to put it. However, Watson only says that his response was rude and Holmes' was "even less sophisticated", and he cites this as one of the reasons he never intends the general public to hear this story.
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* {{Blackmail}}: Lestrade holds a mistake Holmes made over him, gleefully planning to publish it to prove the superiority of the police force. Watson calmly points out that far more people read the Strand than the newspapers Lestrade intends to inform and threatens that he'll rewrite his descriptions to make the inspector out to be an idiot rather than the crown jewel of law enforcement.
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* BlaseBoast: Mrs. Hudson walks in to find half of Holmes' face bandaged and asks the detective pertly if he finally exasperated Watson past the breaking point. Watson tells her "helpfully" that if he were responsible for Holmes' injuries, the detective would not be up and about. Holmes isn't amused.
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* WorthyOpponent: In "Bullets", Watson mentions the rumors among his readers that Holmes harbors romantic feelings for Irene Adler (Holmes points out that it's Irene Norton, and that she and her beloved husband were together till death did them part.) When Watson inquires about her photo, Holmes asks if Watson having General Gordon's photo means he is in love with him. Watson answers in the negative, and Holmes finishes by saying that there's nothing wrong with a British gentleman having a heroine rather than a hero.
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* WorthyOpponent: In "Bullets", Watson mentions the rumors among his readers that Holmes harbors romantic feelings for Irene Adler (Holmes points out that it's Irene Norton, and that she and her beloved husband were together till death did them part.) When Watson inquires about her photo, Holmes asks if Watson having General Gordon's photo means he is in love with him. Watson answers in the negative, and Holmes finishes by saying that there's nothing wrong with a British gentleman having a heroine rather than a hero.hero.
* WrongAssumption: PlayedForDrama in one ficlet that begins a mini-arc. When Holmes catches Watson trying to break into the desk for his checkbook (rather than asking for it), he caustically warns him against gambling so close to the holidays. Watson snaps that he needed it to go Christmas shopping for Holmes. Before the detective can recover, Watson has already stormed out and slammed the door.
* WrongAssumption: PlayedForDrama in one ficlet that begins a mini-arc. When Holmes catches Watson trying to break into the desk for his checkbook (rather than asking for it), he caustically warns him against gambling so close to the holidays. Watson snaps that he needed it to go Christmas shopping for Holmes. Before the detective can recover, Watson has already stormed out and slammed the door.
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* DramaticDrop: Watson comes back unexpectedly just in time to shoot a criminal threatening Holmes. Given that this is the first time he's killed a man outside of war and he did it unwillingly, the experience badly shocks him and he drops his revolver. Holmes, noting his fellow lodger's reaction, sits him on the couch and gets him a brandy.
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* NotSoDire: One segment takes Holmes' point of view as he tries to intimidate or think of some way to escape from a person who has cornered him and is amused by his desperation. As he realizes he has no workable options and tries to steel himself for the inevitable, the truth is revealed: Holmes is sick and Watson has arrived to administer cough syrup, the taste of which is too bitter for the detective.
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* SorryToInterrupt: Watson and Mary, preparing for their wedding, stop for a kiss. At exactly that moment, [[CelibateHero Holmes]] wanders in to ask Watson about some case materials, sees what's going on, and hastily excuses himself.
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* SorryToInterrupt: SorryToInterrupt:
** Watson and Mary, preparing for their wedding, stop for a kiss. At exactly that moment, [[CelibateHero Holmes]] wanders in to ask Watson about some case materials, sees what's going on, and hastily excuseshimself.himself.
** Holmes is putting the finishing touches of a female disguise on Watson when Mrs. Hudson comes in to ask if they want something, only to rebuff an explanation and slam the door when she sees what's going on.
** Watson and Mary, preparing for their wedding, stop for a kiss. At exactly that moment, [[CelibateHero Holmes]] wanders in to ask Watson about some case materials, sees what's going on, and hastily excuses
** Holmes is putting the finishing touches of a female disguise on Watson when Mrs. Hudson comes in to ask if they want something, only to rebuff an explanation and slam the door when she sees what's going on.
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* FriendlyScheming: Mrs. Hudson, concerned about her lodgers working themselves into the ground, sends both of them a telegram saying something has happened to the other in order to get them to Baker Street and the lunch she prepared for them. When Holmes asks why she couldn't do this less alarmingly, Mrs. Hudson answers that only one thing would come between them and their work.
* TheGadfly: Mary Morstan Watson teases her groom's best friend by pretending he's insulted her when he hesitates to take the best man's privilege of kissing the bride. Watson plays along briefly, before Mary decides the joke has gone on long enough and pecks Holmes on the cheek to fulfill the tradition [[CelibateHero without requiring Holmes to do something with which he's uncomfortable]].
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: Watson chides Alfie, one of the Irregulars, for letting someone dare him into licking a lamppost in the middle of winter. The boy turns to Holmes for support. Ultimately, Watson pries out of Holmes that he licked a pump handle every day for a week, testing to see if it would work. Holmes tells Alfie that Mycroft took considerably less care unsticking his tongue than Watson did.
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* WorkingThroughTheCold: Watson puts Holmes to bed and goes to the apothecary for some influenza medicine. On the way, he ends up cornered by a gunman bent on vengeance. As he's about to shoot Watson, Holmes appears, [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind shoots him]], and lets Watson out of his bindings before collapsing from the effort .
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* WorkingThroughTheCold: Watson puts Holmes to bed and goes to the apothecary for some influenza medicine. On the way, he ends up cornered by a gunman bent on vengeance. As he's about to shoot Watson, Holmes appears, [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind shoots him]], and lets Watson out of his bindings before collapsing from the effort .effort.
* WorthyOpponent: In "Bullets", Watson mentions the rumors among his readers that Holmes harbors romantic feelings for Irene Adler (Holmes points out that it's Irene Norton, and that she and her beloved husband were together till death did them part.) When Watson inquires about her photo, Holmes asks if Watson having General Gordon's photo means he is in love with him. Watson answers in the negative, and Holmes finishes by saying that there's nothing wrong with a British gentleman having a heroine rather than a hero.
* WorthyOpponent: In "Bullets", Watson mentions the rumors among his readers that Holmes harbors romantic feelings for Irene Adler (Holmes points out that it's Irene Norton, and that she and her beloved husband were together till death did them part.) When Watson inquires about her photo, Holmes asks if Watson having General Gordon's photo means he is in love with him. Watson answers in the negative, and Holmes finishes by saying that there's nothing wrong with a British gentleman having a heroine rather than a hero.
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* DisguisedInDrag: "High-heeled Boot" and "Ballroom" concerns Holmes and Watson on a case which somehow requires them to pose as husband and wife. To Watson's chagrin, he ends up forced into the female role.
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* DisguisedInDrag: "High-heeled Boot" and "Ballroom" concerns Holmes and Watson on a case which somehow requires them to pose as husband and wife. To Watson's chagrin, he ends up forced into the female role. He irritably puts up with the disguise, including a purse, but draws the line at having to dance with Holmes.
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* FriendVersusLover: "Bow" concerns Mary Morstan assuring Holmes she has no intention of monopolizing Watson after their marriage and asking that he not cut ties with him.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: "Boswells Unite!" features Watson receiving a letter from the Strand informing him they're not printing any more of his stories for the moment because someone has been sending in "gutter-press" under his name. The enraged Holmes thinks that only he can criticize Watson's writing and immediately sets out to find the perpetrator and teach him a lesson for blackening his biographer's reputation.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: "Boswells Unite!" features Watson receiving a letter from the Strand informing him they're not printing any more of his stories for the moment because someone has been sending in "gutter-press" under his name. The enraged Holmes thinks that only he can criticize Watson's writing and immediately sets out to find the perpetrator and teach him a lesson for blackening his biographer's reputation.
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* FriendVersusLover: "Bow" concerns Mary Morstan assuring coming to see Holmes before marrying Watson. She assures Holmes she has no intention of monopolizing Watson his best friend after their marriage marriage, knowing that Watson isn't the type who can be entirely domestic, and asking asks that he not cut ties with him.him. Holmes' reactions imply that he thought he would lose Watson entirely after the wedding, and he tells Mary she's a remarkable woman.
* HeadDesk: In "Be", Inspector Lestrade becomes interested in the American candy Watson is eating to keep alert on a stake-out. Watson hands him a Tootsie Roll, describing it as a toffee-like chocolate, and Holmes debates the merits of smacking his own head against the nearby wall.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: "Boswells Unite!" features Watson receiving a letter from the Strand informing him they're not printing any more of his stories for the moment because someone has been sending in "gutter-press" under his name.The enraged Holmes thinks fumes that only he can criticize Watson's writing writing, and whoever this is has gone even further by blackening his reputation. He immediately sets out to find the perpetrator and teach him a lesson for blackening his biographer's reputation. lesson.
* HeadDesk: In "Be", Inspector Lestrade becomes interested in the American candy Watson is eating to keep alert on a stake-out. Watson hands him a Tootsie Roll, describing it as a toffee-like chocolate, and Holmes debates the merits of smacking his own head against the nearby wall.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: "Boswells Unite!" features Watson receiving a letter from the Strand informing him they're not printing any more of his stories for the moment because someone has been sending in "gutter-press" under his name.
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* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: "Breathed" starts with Holmes grumbling about how no criminal has taken advantage of the fog to do anything interesting. He comes back from a trip to the tobacconist to find one of the crooks he sent to jail on the verge of shooting Watson, and says that he'll never gripe about the fog again.
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Watson puts Holmes to bed and goes to the apothecary's for some influenza medicine. On the way, he ends up cornered by a gunman bent on vengeance. As he's about to shoot Watson, Holmes appears, [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind shoots him]], and lets Watson out of his bindings before collapsing from the effort .
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Watson puts Holmes to bed and goes to the apothecary's for some influenza medicine. On the way, he ends up cornered by a gunman bent on vengeance. As he's about to shoot Watson, Holmes appears, [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind shoots him]], and lets Watson out of his bindings before collapsing from the effort .
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* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: "Breathed" starts with Holmes grumbling about how no criminal has taken advantage of the fog to do anything interesting. He comes back from a trip to the tobacconist to find one of the crooks he sent to jail on the verge of shooting Watson, Watson and says that he'll never gripe about the fog again.
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Watson puts Holmes to bed and goes to theapothecary's apothecary for some influenza medicine. On the way, he ends up cornered by a gunman bent on vengeance. As he's about to shoot Watson, Holmes appears, [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind shoots him]], and lets Watson out of his bindings before collapsing from the effort .
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Watson puts Holmes to bed and goes to the
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4162281/1/221B 221B]]'' is a ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' fanfic set, told in a series of ficlets containing exactly 221 words and ending with a word that begins with '''B'''. The set covers a number of situations and themes, humorous, dramatic, and in-between.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4162281/1/221B 221B]]'' is a ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' fanfic set, set by Creator/{{KCS}}, told in a series of ficlets containing exactly 221 words and ending with a word that begins with '''B'''. The set covers a number of situations and themes, humorous, dramatic, and in-between.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4162281/1/221B 221B]]'' is a ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' fanfic set, told in a series of ficlets containing exactly 221 words and ending with a word that begins with '''B'''. The set covers a number of situations and themes, humorous, dramatic, and in-between.
!!This fanfic includes examples of the following tropes:
* ChildishPillowFight: One ficlet, a missing scene from another fic, has Mycroft overhear Holmes and Watson getting into some kind of scuffle, and he goes in to prevent them from straining their recent injuries. After taking a pillow to the face, he rhetorically asks how old they both are.
* ContinuityNod: In one story, Holmes interrupts Watson's reading by chuckling over a newspaper story praising the police's work in a recent case. When Holmes brushes off Watson's noting that Lestrade ''was'' correct on his own in this case, Watson drops the word "Norbury", a reference to ''The Adventure of the Yellow Face.''
* DisguisedInDrag: "High-heeled Boot" and "Ballroom" concerns Holmes and Watson on a case which somehow requires them to pose as husband and wife. To Watson's chagrin, he ends up forced into the female role.
* FaceYourFears: "Badly" sees Watson having to fight down his fear of water in order to retrieve the captive Holmes from a watery cave before he drowns in the rising tide.
* FridgeBrilliance: InUniverse. Watson narrates the story of the Roylott case to the Irregulars, and Alfie interrupts to ask why Holmes sat on the bed during the stakeout if he knew the villain of the week intended something deadly to happen to the occupant. Wiggins snaps that, obviously, he didn't want Watson in such a dangerous position, which the doctor hadn't thought of himself until that point.
* FriendVersusLover: "Bow" concerns Mary Morstan assuring Holmes she has no intention of monopolizing Watson after their marriage and asking that he not cut ties with him.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: "Boswells Unite!" features Watson receiving a letter from the Strand informing him they're not printing any more of his stories for the moment because someone has been sending in "gutter-press" under his name. The enraged Holmes thinks that only he can criticize Watson's writing and immediately sets out to find the perpetrator and teach him a lesson for blackening his biographer's reputation.
* OhNoNotAgain: In "Burned", Watson wakes up after being knocked out during a fight and asks what happened. Holmes answers that he got hit with a chair, causing Watson to quip, "What, again?"
* RightBehindMe: Watson returns home late to hear Holmes talking to Lestrade. Eventually, the conversation comes around to Watson's latest story in ''Strand'', and Holmes compliments it but orders Lestrade not to tell Watson. At that point, the grinning doctor pokes his head into the room to say goodnight.
* SlainInTheirSleep: "Boy" has Watson telling the Irregulars the story of the Speckled Band. One of them interrupts him to ask if the thing supposed to drop on the bed had killed the sleeping person.
* SorryToInterrupt: Watson and Mary, preparing for their wedding, stop for a kiss. At exactly that moment, [[CelibateHero Holmes]] wanders in to ask Watson about some case materials, sees what's going on, and hastily excuses himself.
* TelegraphGagStop: One ficlet begins with Watson receiving a telegram from a police inspector about Holmes getting sick on a case. The telegram contains three uses of the word "stop" as a period.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: "Breathed" starts with Holmes grumbling about how no criminal has taken advantage of the fog to do anything interesting. He comes back from a trip to the tobacconist to find one of the crooks he sent to jail on the verge of shooting Watson, and says that he'll never gripe about the fog again.
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Watson puts Holmes to bed and goes to the apothecary's for some influenza medicine. On the way, he ends up cornered by a gunman bent on vengeance. As he's about to shoot Watson, Holmes appears, [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind shoots him]], and lets Watson out of his bindings before collapsing from the effort .
!!This fanfic includes examples of the following tropes:
* ChildishPillowFight: One ficlet, a missing scene from another fic, has Mycroft overhear Holmes and Watson getting into some kind of scuffle, and he goes in to prevent them from straining their recent injuries. After taking a pillow to the face, he rhetorically asks how old they both are.
* ContinuityNod: In one story, Holmes interrupts Watson's reading by chuckling over a newspaper story praising the police's work in a recent case. When Holmes brushes off Watson's noting that Lestrade ''was'' correct on his own in this case, Watson drops the word "Norbury", a reference to ''The Adventure of the Yellow Face.''
* DisguisedInDrag: "High-heeled Boot" and "Ballroom" concerns Holmes and Watson on a case which somehow requires them to pose as husband and wife. To Watson's chagrin, he ends up forced into the female role.
* FaceYourFears: "Badly" sees Watson having to fight down his fear of water in order to retrieve the captive Holmes from a watery cave before he drowns in the rising tide.
* FridgeBrilliance: InUniverse. Watson narrates the story of the Roylott case to the Irregulars, and Alfie interrupts to ask why Holmes sat on the bed during the stakeout if he knew the villain of the week intended something deadly to happen to the occupant. Wiggins snaps that, obviously, he didn't want Watson in such a dangerous position, which the doctor hadn't thought of himself until that point.
* FriendVersusLover: "Bow" concerns Mary Morstan assuring Holmes she has no intention of monopolizing Watson after their marriage and asking that he not cut ties with him.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: "Boswells Unite!" features Watson receiving a letter from the Strand informing him they're not printing any more of his stories for the moment because someone has been sending in "gutter-press" under his name. The enraged Holmes thinks that only he can criticize Watson's writing and immediately sets out to find the perpetrator and teach him a lesson for blackening his biographer's reputation.
* OhNoNotAgain: In "Burned", Watson wakes up after being knocked out during a fight and asks what happened. Holmes answers that he got hit with a chair, causing Watson to quip, "What, again?"
* RightBehindMe: Watson returns home late to hear Holmes talking to Lestrade. Eventually, the conversation comes around to Watson's latest story in ''Strand'', and Holmes compliments it but orders Lestrade not to tell Watson. At that point, the grinning doctor pokes his head into the room to say goodnight.
* SlainInTheirSleep: "Boy" has Watson telling the Irregulars the story of the Speckled Band. One of them interrupts him to ask if the thing supposed to drop on the bed had killed the sleeping person.
* SorryToInterrupt: Watson and Mary, preparing for their wedding, stop for a kiss. At exactly that moment, [[CelibateHero Holmes]] wanders in to ask Watson about some case materials, sees what's going on, and hastily excuses himself.
* TelegraphGagStop: One ficlet begins with Watson receiving a telegram from a police inspector about Holmes getting sick on a case. The telegram contains three uses of the word "stop" as a period.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: "Breathed" starts with Holmes grumbling about how no criminal has taken advantage of the fog to do anything interesting. He comes back from a trip to the tobacconist to find one of the crooks he sent to jail on the verge of shooting Watson, and says that he'll never gripe about the fog again.
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Watson puts Holmes to bed and goes to the apothecary's for some influenza medicine. On the way, he ends up cornered by a gunman bent on vengeance. As he's about to shoot Watson, Holmes appears, [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind shoots him]], and lets Watson out of his bindings before collapsing from the effort .
