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Fandom: SHERLOCK HOLMES
Pairing: gen
Length: 27,000 words
Author on LJ: kcs2008
Author Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1464384/KCS
Why this must be read:

KCS is the energizer bunny of the current crop of Sherlock Holmes fic writers over at ff.n. She betas, she collaborates, she throws out challenges, and she's even invented a new kind of fixed-length ficlet, the 221B. She also writes the kind of elaborate romance-free friendship hurt/comfort that started me reading and writing fanfic oh-so-long-ago and writes it well.

This is one of her earlier pieces (from January!), an AU of the Hound of the Baskervilles in which Watson manages to solve the mystery, but fails to stay out of trouble. Woven carefully into the timeline of the original, it builds slowly at first and then turns up the tension sharply.

I at last had all the threads in my hand, and I felt some of that familiar exultation Holmes exuded when he was hot upon the trail of the criminal. I knew all – now the only thing remaining would be to obtain the proof. And I would be more than happy to leave that task to Holmes.

I arrived a couple of hours later back in the small town where I was wont to post letters to Holmes, and I went straight to the office to send an urgent telegram that should bring him down to the moor on the instant.

There was absolutely no one on duty, and so I took a blank form from the desk and walked to the table by the door to begin my message. I was in the midst of composing it when I heard a voice behind me that sent a chill through my very core.




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