Stairwell Wit

Merry: ?I am now

Boromir: what are baby hobbits called

Merry: …hobbit… babies?

Boromir: yes those, what do you call them?

Merry: hobbit babies.

Boromir: yes but what are they CALLED.

Merry: hobbit. babies.

Boromir: but what are they called?

Merry: I give up *goes back to sleep*

Merry: hey Boromir

Boromir: hm?

Merry: last night. did you wake me up. to ask me what hobbit babies are called.

Merry: or did I dream that

Boromir: ………………….you never answered the question

Merry: yes I did

Boromir: no you didn’t

Merry: Frodo. Sam. Anyone. please help.

Sam: Mr Merry what the fresh hell are you talking about

Merry: Sam tell Boromir what we call baby hobbits

Sam: ……you mean… babies?

Merry: exactly

Boromir: ………….OH

Boromir: I thought. there might be a special word.

Sam: no we just call them babies why would there be a special word

Merry: what would it even… be

Boromir: I don’t know that’s why I was ASKING

Merry: no

Pippin: I’m making it happen

Merry: nO

Pippin: bobbits. little bobbits. back when i was a bobbit. I love it.

Sam: *not looking up from what he’s doing* Mr Pippin if you ever say that word around me again I am going to rip your guts out through your nose

Pippin: ……………wow.

*Merry losing his shit in the foreground*

“If you believe in fig puddin, there will be fig puddin”

Winter Holmestice 2019 for “Rachelindeed”

The prompt I was given gave me a lot of room to pick and choose what things I liked the most, and from the get-go the dynamic and feelings my giftee asked for were 100000% my jam, so I struggled a lot to pick JUST ONE THING from all the wonderful ideas Rachelindeed gave me. 

However one stood out to me, and that was the infamous scene in “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” where Watson is wounded but Holmes’ panic and rage prompts this delicious line:

“It was worth a wound, it was worth many wounds, to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask.(…) For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. ”

Sadly Jeremy Brett’s health had declined so terribly by when this story got adapted by Granada that the story had to be heavily changed (and Holmes’ role substituted by Mycroft), so the fans weren’t able to enjoy this emotional scene played by Brett and (personally my favourite Watson) Edward Hardwicke.

So I humbly offer what I would love to think happened a short while after the case was over, Watson is almost completely recovered from his wound but Holmes is still shaken by his dear doctor’s near-death experience. Watson’s loyalty to him moves him beyond words and it’s only in intimate moments like these when he lets said “cold mask” drop and expresses his affection.