Author's note: Grenada's version of the Mazarin Stone/Three Garridebs is tolerable, if you know that they had to make changes to accomodate Jeremy Brett's illness, but frustrating if you were hoping to ever see that one glimpse of Holmes' heart from canon. Hence these drabbles to amend the ending and find a little comfort to go with the hurt.
"Brother mine," he said, "bravo," and turned away, but I felt a pang at the praise.
"Sherlock." The tone of my voice caught him mid-step, and he waited, back straight and head high for the bad news. "Watson was injured."
At that he spun back, eyes flashing in the uncertain light. "Badly?"
"Enough so that I thought it better to leave him with the Garrideb sisters. But he would not let them send for another doctor."
"You should have done so then," Sherlock snapped, summoning a nearby cab with a peremptory wave. "Watson makes a worse patient than I do."