[Sherlock Holmes ACD] --- Only Reminder (JWP#05 2015)
Title: Only Reminder
Theme: Watson's Woes July Writing Prompts 2015
Prompt: #5 Note to Self. Anything from a pencil jot on a paper cuff or a string on a finger to a modern sticky note or a cell phone alarm. Doesn't matter who the writer is, so long as there's something he/she needs a reminder for.
Author: Alaylith
Rating: General Audiences
Universe: ACD
Characters: Holmes
WordCount: 221b
Summary: In his whole life Holmes ever had only one reminder.
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Holmes has a selective memory.
Things, he deems important (like everything to do with his work), he will never forget.
Other things, that are not important in his opinion (like watering the flowers the first time Mrs. Hudson was on vacation), he immediatly removes from his head attic.
He never needs a reminder for the important things, like a knot in a handkerchief he has seen Watson do many times.
Holmes does not understand the reason behind this action, but Watson explained once, that whenever he looks at the knot he always remembers what it stands for.
That happened quite early in their aquaintance and Holmes just scoffed, turning away. He ignored the information - not forgetting it, even though it will take some years for him to understand as to why he did not forget it.
Now as he sits in a temple in Tibet, watching the snow, he carefully fingers a knotted handkerchief. It is one of Watson's; Holmes took it by mistake the morning they left the inn to visit the Reichenbach Falls.
It is the only thing that remains from his old life and three years ago he made the knot to always remind him of the most important thing he had to leave behind.
When he returns to it (to Watson) he will give the handkerchief back.
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Theme: Watson's Woes July Writing Prompts 2015
Prompt: #5 Note to Self. Anything from a pencil jot on a paper cuff or a string on a finger to a modern sticky note or a cell phone alarm. Doesn't matter who the writer is, so long as there's something he/she needs a reminder for.
Author: Alaylith
Rating: General Audiences
Universe: ACD
Characters: Holmes
WordCount: 221b
Summary: In his whole life Holmes ever had only one reminder.
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Holmes has a selective memory.
Things, he deems important (like everything to do with his work), he will never forget.
Other things, that are not important in his opinion (like watering the flowers the first time Mrs. Hudson was on vacation), he immediatly removes from his head attic.
He never needs a reminder for the important things, like a knot in a handkerchief he has seen Watson do many times.
Holmes does not understand the reason behind this action, but Watson explained once, that whenever he looks at the knot he always remembers what it stands for.
That happened quite early in their aquaintance and Holmes just scoffed, turning away. He ignored the information - not forgetting it, even though it will take some years for him to understand as to why he did not forget it.
Now as he sits in a temple in Tibet, watching the snow, he carefully fingers a knotted handkerchief. It is one of Watson's; Holmes took it by mistake the morning they left the inn to visit the Reichenbach Falls.
It is the only thing that remains from his old life and three years ago he made the knot to always remind him of the most important thing he had to leave behind.
When he returns to it (to Watson) he will give the handkerchief back.
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