Thank you for all the reviews for my first chapter! I will sit down and reply, read and review in return. Really will! From Lucilia: Holmes and Watson are mistaken for a couple. Set on the evening before the conclusion of the Man With the Twisted Lip (the only case besides the Valley of Fear where they are specified as sharing a double bedroom)
"Holmes, what are you doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing, you fool?"
"No need for rudeness. Why are you pulling the bed apart?"
"I'm not. I'm pulling half the bed apart. My half."
"Why?"
"I'm making a nest on the floor."
"Surely a nest on the bed is more comfortable…"
"Of course it is, but you remember what happened the last time."
"You mean during the Valley of Fear case?"
"Yes. That."
"What were the chances of that chambermaid barging in?"
"Barricading the door like that. And then Lestrade…and Gregson…and the interrogation. I've never been more humiliated."
"An understandable misunderstanding. Given the circumstances."
"Exactly. So floor it is."
"Fair enough."