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Entry tags:
"Canonised" (221b), Holmes Minor November 2019 Monthly Prompt
Title: Canonised
Author: gardnerhill
Form/Wordcount: 221b
Characters/Pairings: Inspector Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings/Content: None
Summary: Not all saints wear halos.
Author’s Notes: For the Holmes Minor November 2019 prompt: Saints.
Not churchy types, either of 'em. Not fashionable enough for Mr. Holmes' class, I'll warrant, and I reckon the Doctor's seen too much in heathen countries to rest easy in the faith he was raised in.
That attitude doesn't play in Scotland Yard. Coppers go to services regular; most Chief Inspectors require it, if they don't read the lesson to the lads themselves. We need every bit of help we can get out there.
Our first line of spiritual defence is St. Michael, patron of police – it's him we invoke before going to the higher offices, so to speak. More of us call for a bit of divine intervention at the crucial moment than we let on.
I could never imagine those two making prayers of any kind, or invoking saints.
But both came with me when we collared a squad of tuppenny-ha'penny Fagins and the almshouse kids they'd been keeping as slaves – Dr. Watson chasing down one brute and hauling him back, fearless as Joan of Arc breaking the Siege of Orleans, and Mr. Holmes collaring the ringleader like old George facing down his dragon – and I saw the righteous rage on their faces straight from a stained-glass window.
That's when I understood.
They don't need to invoke patrons and arc-angels. They themselves bear the holy fire of the beatified.
Author: gardnerhill
Form/Wordcount: 221b
Characters/Pairings: Inspector Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings/Content: None
Summary: Not all saints wear halos.
Author’s Notes: For the Holmes Minor November 2019 prompt: Saints.
Not churchy types, either of 'em. Not fashionable enough for Mr. Holmes' class, I'll warrant, and I reckon the Doctor's seen too much in heathen countries to rest easy in the faith he was raised in.
That attitude doesn't play in Scotland Yard. Coppers go to services regular; most Chief Inspectors require it, if they don't read the lesson to the lads themselves. We need every bit of help we can get out there.
Our first line of spiritual defence is St. Michael, patron of police – it's him we invoke before going to the higher offices, so to speak. More of us call for a bit of divine intervention at the crucial moment than we let on.
I could never imagine those two making prayers of any kind, or invoking saints.
But both came with me when we collared a squad of tuppenny-ha'penny Fagins and the almshouse kids they'd been keeping as slaves – Dr. Watson chasing down one brute and hauling him back, fearless as Joan of Arc breaking the Siege of Orleans, and Mr. Holmes collaring the ringleader like old George facing down his dragon – and I saw the righteous rage on their faces straight from a stained-glass window.
That's when I understood.
They don't need to invoke patrons and arc-angels. They themselves bear the holy fire of the beatified.
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And as always, brilliant b word ^__^
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I do like finding appropriate "B" words for my 221s!
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