Title: Bel Canto
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 6.8k out of 126k
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seijichan,
lifeonmarsDisclaimer: Do not own.
Summary: After years of waiting for wealthy patrons to faint, Dr John Watson discovers a far more interesting patient in the opera house basement. (AU through a Phantom of the Opera lens.)
Warnings: Violence, internalized homophobia, eventual character
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(He goes through pretty much everything that can be thrown at him, and sheer determination and lack of realizing his own damage keeps him standing.)
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Such suffering in this chapter and seemingly not really any further on . . .
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No, Mr. Jamison. I don't believe you have.
Despite the Vernet mess, John still defaults to assuming the person in front of him is decent. He's not totally broken, which is nice, even when he's totally wrong. I think he's wrong, anyway. We'll see :)
It’s not the drink that has been poisoned. It’s the cups.It's EVIL Birling Day :( And no one is Miss Marple ( ... )
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I think Holmes would probably rather see the opera house wrecked than see his opera wrecked. Except that Mrs. Hudson cried at the thought of losing that job, and I like to think he'd put his masterpiece in the shooting gallery for her.
You pretty much nailed it. Also, he's back to being angry with the piece because of John.
I used to do theatre in high school, and I must say that scene of everyone going out for coffee, logistics and gossip felt very true to life, with nice period details (that bootblack!)
I also had theatre in high school, sans bootblack. We had an issue of illness and vomiting, so the winnowing of the cast came from that. And then Cabin Pressure provided a good mechanism.
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