rabidsamfan: (watson jude law)
rabidsamfan ([personal profile] rabidsamfan) wrote2011-08-09 10:19 am

Relapse

I came to myself briefly as I was being lifted into a carriage, and caught a glimpse of a hand I knew as well as my own, the familiar scars standing out white against an unfamiliar tan. But I could not trace the hand to the face before the prick of a hypodermic needle sent me back into darkness.

When next I woke I was in a world of white sheets and carbolic, and Dr. Ives was standing by my bed. For a moment, I thought myself back in Peshawar, still gripped by typhoid fever.

"Was it all a dream?"






Author's Notes: Ives is borrowed from Pompey's stories "On Afghanistan's Plains" and for this story, "The Covenant and the Oath". For the "playing in another sandbox" prompt at wwoes. Follows Tremors.

[identity profile] jcporter1.livejournal.com 2011-08-09 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Why did Sherlock have a tan?

[identity profile] rabidsamfan.livejournal.com 2011-08-09 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Running around at high altitudes (Tibet) and desert places (Mecca/Khartoum) will do that -- especially to someone as usually pale as Holmes!

[identity profile] jcporter1.livejournal.com 2011-08-09 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool. Then are we in Afghan the first time and Sherlock is there or are we back there, or is John hallucinating? Sorry to be so daft. I found this to be compelling so I want to wrap my head around it.