Yuletide recs #1: Poirot

I have a great sweet tooth for Poirot/Hastings, one of those exceedingly rare pairings that practically doesn't exist at all! I haven't got beyond A in the Yuletide archive yet, but I will probably not be as excited about anything else as I already am about two tiny-tiny-tiny short-short-short bite-sized morsels of Poirot and Hastings this year:

• And An Umbrella for the Rain, which was my Yuletide present, and is a playful gen conversation about cricket with Hastings pouting, Poirot exasperated and superior and affectionate and mocking the English (and his eyes flashing green just like in book canon), and the dialogue and narrative voice just perfect!



• The Finer Qualites of Arthur Hastings, an inexplicit bit of either UST or est.rel. in which Hastings worries about having made a fool of himself with a client, and Poirot is indulgent, surprisingly demonstrative and rather soppily romantic in the best of all possible (and wholly canon-like) senses!