Backwards Attraction
Title: Backwards Attraction
Word Count: 100
Characters: Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, mention of Miss Ivory and Thorpe Holmes
Warnings: Spoilers for the 2009 Asylum version of Sherlock Holmes (Gareth David-Lloyd plays Watson), views that homosexuality is unnatural (not my thoughts, mind you)
Summary: Watson can’t let him know.
Author’s Notes: A sort-of song fic using the song “Your Bruise” (Death Cab For Cutie) for the title. Told in Watson’s POV and takes place when Holmes goes to rescue him.
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I couldn’t believe my eyes.
He stood before me without so much as a scratch on him, though I clearly saw him shot down by Miss Ivory only minutes ago.
I was jerked back to reality when he freed me from my tightening restraints.
“How did you - ?”
“Bullet struck my tobacco tin. And my brother said smoking would kill me…”
We stood facing each other, so close I could feel his breath. I wanted to lean in those last few inches and kiss him, let him know what he means to me.
I couldn’t.
My feelings for him are unnatural.