I see plot bunnies everywhere I look.

[impulsereader]

I sat down to do my sherlock60, and this week's story is The Man with the Twisted Lip.  We get a nice extended intro, which I always appreciate, and in it Watson states, "Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house."  Well, I went over to the comm to see what other people were writing so far, and chess_ka had chosen to do a bit showing the particular 'bird' that Mrs Watson is currently tending deciding to go to her.  And just after that, azriona had posted a gorgeous little 60 about Mrs Watson and her needlework and Watson's love for his wife and for Holmes.

BLAM

People come to Mrs Watson and to Holmes for help when in need.

For about 30 seconds I was happy as a clam.  60 practically written.

Then it hit me that I bet Mrs Watson's 'cases' would make for a really interesting AU.

And you know that Dr Watson would come home at the end of each day and inquire about his wife's day and she'd totally downplay the fact that she'd solved a murder and leave out altogether the arsenic-laced tea, and he'd say, 'that's nice, dear' and go to bed all in ignorance.

Long story made short, I now have a 'plot bunnies' tag.

Comments

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Well of course she has an awesome best friend. What lovely Victorian lady doesn't? And if her particular best friend just happens to have a literary bent, who am I to write in a different direction?

Besides, in last week's story - Bohemia - Mrs Watson was set to give notice to the maid who so negligently scraped up Dr Watson's boots, so surely by now she has engaged someone new - a young woman with a lively glint in her eye perhaps?

And I am fairly sure that while Watson would never deign to pick up a Ladies' Periodical (gasp!), Holmes might just follow this particular Adventuress with great interest. :-)

[221b-hound.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant. And maybe Holmes drops little hints from time to time, but Watson never seems to catch on.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Holmes definitely drops hints. :-) Now I just have to figure out which meta on Watson's wives I'd most like to believe. It's not a point I had given much thought previously and when I looked it up at lunch today my eyes got very wide...six wives?

[221b-hound.livejournal.com]

SIx?? that makes him a regular BlueBeard, surely. I've only read of two. Mary, who seems to have died during the Great Hiatus, and then some mystery wife in the latter half of the canon.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

I think the six wives originated with Baring Gould, whose work I have not read and which I feel rather dubious about on this point. He is not, however, the sole proponent of Watson as Blue Beard or Henry VIII.

Somewhat more conservatively, some seem to contend that there was an allusion somewhere which implied a wife pre-Holmes in addition to Mary and Mystery Wife #2.

Thankfully, I can still peruse all this casually and just be amused, as I won't be getting around to any actual writing for a while. Must finish one thing before beginning another. :-)