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Title: The Silver Answer
Rating: Light R
Warnings/additional pairings: n/a
Summary: A chance encounter with a mesmerist has unexpected consequences for Holmes and Watson.
Word Count: 11,381
Disclaimer: Not mine, no profit.

a/n: This fic is a version of ACD’s own story, The Parasite, remixed for Holmes/Watson.
a/n: Title and epigraph from EBB
a/n: Written for the

hw09_exchange.
a/n: A huge thank you to my inestimable beta,

calamitycrow, not just for all the usual beta things, but for all the extra handholding that is for some reason attendant on me writing Holmes/Watson fic.

…a mystic shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove…
Guess now who holds thee?...Death, I said, but there
The silver answer rang…not Death but Love.

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I just checked, and I haven't posted any Sherlock Holmes fic since February O_O But that doesn't mean I haven't been writing any! Here is the shorter of two fics I wrote for the

hw09_exchange (reveals went up yesterday). I'll post the other, longer, fic in a couple of days.

Title: A Beautiful Pea-Green Boat.
Rating: PG
Word count: 2,967.
Disclaimer: Not mine, no profit
Summary: A man could survive for a month without food; without water--two weeks if he were lucky. An open boat in the North Atlantic did not count as luck.

a/n: Some hand-waving may have occurred vis-à-vis the actual medical details of exposure. More notes at the end of the fic.
a/n: written for the

hw09_exchange for

lavvyan
a/n: many thanks, as always, to

calamitycrow for the beta, and everything else.

A Beautiful Pea-Green Boat

"In retrospect, Holmes, this may not have been the best idea."

"Hindsight is always perfect, Watson. Now kindly shut up and row."

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