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fandomsecrets2013-11-30 03:25 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #2524 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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pointless fannish flailing
"[context: it takes place after the events at Abbey Mill. Doyle's really, really upset by the Heather Grace surprise revelation]
In the evening, usually on the Doctor's urging, we would engage in games of reasoning and deduction. He would propose a real or imagined puzzle, another cryptogram, some strange feature of a case, or a particularly abstruse clue from his vast store of recollections and then we would use it to test my skill. Sometimes we merely sat at the window and watched passers-by, attempting to deduce their occupation or family life or mental and physical condition. Once or twice, when I was listless, I am convinced he would deliberately put himself in the wrong by planting some ludicrous piece of speculation just to see if I would pick it up.
There was one occasion, for example, when I was particularly low in spirits as we sat at the window, discussing the character and the occupation of passers-by. The Doctor insisted that a woman with young children was their mother, supporting his case with a series of extremely abstruse observations about her coat, her hands, her show of affection and a ring on her finger. I was quite certain from the age of the eldest child, the items the woman carried, and, indeed, her whole demeanour that she was a governess. The debate flew back and forth with gusto and finally we rushed out and followed them.
Bell pretended to be confounded when five or six streets away the true mother greeted the party at her front door. But I had my doubts and, as time went on, I became increasingly certain that most of these carefully crafted 'mistakes' were little more than an attempt to restore my spirits."
o m g isn't the Doctor the most epic of friends to ever epic? :D This whole thing gives me the warm fuzzies. I cannot. I need to write it.
Or maybe I'll request it on f!s Secret Santa. I know nobody writes Murder Rooms but imagine a story where Holmes does that to Watson???? I'd read the hell out of it.
Re: pointless fannish flailing