Fic: The Abernettys: Gen
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holmes_minorTitle: The Abernettys
Rating: Gen
Length: 221b
Summary: Holmes & Watson discuss the Abernetty case.
A/N: for the November prompt: family.
Holmes lowered his morning newspaper and said, apropos of absolutely nothing,
“You know, Watson, I never quite understood your whole algorithm for which of our cases you selected to make public.”
“Take a number,” replied Watson curtly from behind his morning newspaper.
“Take, for instance,” continued Holmes, ignoring the quip, “that dreadful business of the Abernetty family. You chose to use it as an example of how something apparently trifling could be significant and of how a classic case might have a least promising commencement. Which is true and all very good. To be certain, “The Six Napoleons” was a great case, but the Abernetty case was also a great case and, yet, in the whole of your public chronicles it is never mentioned except that once.”
Watson grunted.
“Did you never once feel compelled to return to your notes and publish it?”
Watson hummed. “A bit macabre.”
“More macabre than the Cornish horror?”
“You know as well as I do, Holmes, that the Abernettys made the Borgias look like a picture of familial kindness, and if Abernetty Senior hadn’t paid everyone handsomely before he was helped to a swig from the ancestral distillery, they would certainly be just as famous for their ‘hospitality.’”
“Which is why I never understood—”
“Oh, hush, or I’ll sink some parsley in your butter.”
Rating: Gen
Length: 221b
Summary: Holmes & Watson discuss the Abernetty case.
A/N: for the November prompt: family.
Holmes lowered his morning newspaper and said, apropos of absolutely nothing,
“You know, Watson, I never quite understood your whole algorithm for which of our cases you selected to make public.”
“Take a number,” replied Watson curtly from behind his morning newspaper.
“Take, for instance,” continued Holmes, ignoring the quip, “that dreadful business of the Abernetty family. You chose to use it as an example of how something apparently trifling could be significant and of how a classic case might have a least promising commencement. Which is true and all very good. To be certain, “The Six Napoleons” was a great case, but the Abernetty case was also a great case and, yet, in the whole of your public chronicles it is never mentioned except that once.”
Watson grunted.
“Did you never once feel compelled to return to your notes and publish it?”
Watson hummed. “A bit macabre.”
“More macabre than the Cornish horror?”
“You know as well as I do, Holmes, that the Abernettys made the Borgias look like a picture of familial kindness, and if Abernetty Senior hadn’t paid everyone handsomely before he was helped to a swig from the ancestral distillery, they would certainly be just as famous for their ‘hospitality.’”
“Which is why I never understood—”
“Oh, hush, or I’ll sink some parsley in your butter.”
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Date: 2018-11-10 09:49 pm (UTC)It's a great punchline ^___^
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