cimorene

wanted: a better first-time holmes/watson story set during or after "the empty house"¹. i can't make it anywhere else by film canon. the beginning of "the musgrave ritual" is enough to make me like established relationship.

( captioned caps focusing mostly on said beginning. )

on the other hand, it's clear the cocaine is a wedge driven between them steadily more after holmes's return, with the arc culminating in "the devil's foot" when holmes gives it up. so maybe i could buy it somewhere there or after, with a lot of intense UST (or unresolved emotional tension) in between.

this has always been one of my favourite stories in written canon because the ritual itself is just so, well, peculiar and cute - there aren't that many where holmes solves actual word-puzzles.

1. than the one i once wrote for