Because I mentioned this last night, and it's pretty difficult to track down from earlier in my journal, I thought I would give this little bit of fic its own post.

It is, after all, just tricks

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell & Derren Brown

( It was a dim, wet morning in November when Mr Norrell entered the drawing room in a state of deep vexation over a certain Mr Brown of Covent Garden. )

Bacteriology, Part II (A Study in Scarlet/The War of the Worlds)

Author's note: You've only yourselves to blame at this point...

Part 1
Part 1.5

“This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”

- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
( Part II. )

Bacteriology, Part I.5 (A Study in Scarlet/The War of the Worlds)

Author's note: Well you did ask...

Part 1

( He looked me over once again with that sharp expression. “What are your feelings on the violin?” )