IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

I will post once more this week, on Friday, and then after this week, I'm going to once a week until further notice. On Fridays, specifically. I just can't keep this up. My other fics are suffering (I'm having a terrible writer's block with ATtH); and I need to catch up with school (online writing course) and finish editing my fantasy novel (check out my blog from my profile). I really hate to do it, 'cause I know you guys love this story and I love writing it (and checking my inbox throughout the day =D), but… this is crazy. It really is.

Btw, my laptop is still unfixed. On the bright side of things, though, my cache of Granada eps is being replenished, and I'm even getting episodes (NORW, RESI, COPP) I haven't seen before!

Also, I have two new one-shots up! One is the promised Valentine fic, and the other is Holmes + Strad + rooftop = loving tribute to a beloved classic! Please check 'em out!

To my reviewers:

Moonspun Dragon: Thanks! Um, does… perfecting dialogue in my head count? My typing time these days… is rather limited. (Which is really annoying, 'cause I'd also do some Sherlock stuff if I had the time.) ATtH is online right now, nine chapters so far—you can get to it from my profile. =)

Spockologist: Thanks! …Hey, I'll tie you down! Tee-hee-hee! *drops evil laugh for dramatic voice* You shall watch it, I say! 'Tis good episode! …Oh, wasn't Jeremy just wonderful in MFL? So terribly handsome and adorable and cute and happy… *happy sigh*

Frenchaccro: Thank you! Oh, you can sign anonymous? Okay… maybe I can do something, then… I'll check into it, thanks. =) Actually, I've seen the end of SIXN now (I wanted to see touched!Holmes—so cute!), so I'm definitely going to do something with it now! The "Not So Final Problem" arc is my favorite, too. =) I love seeing Holmes sensitive and vulnerable, and I love seeing Jeremy do it. Very true, that it's as canonical as "the brain without a heart"—maybe even more so! Yeah, I wish Granada had done 3GAR. *is sad*

Brazeau: Isn't it great? Well, Watson did grumble a bit about fainting (as implied in the install), but yeah, Holmes would be more self-conscious about being so emotional. *grins*

reflekshun: Thanks you! Jeremy was awesomely cute. =D Glad you enjoyed the trailer! (Did you ever read more beyond the chapter you reviewed? Just wondering!)

==25. Empty House, Part III: Foreshadowing==

Years later, he'd look back and wish so terribly that he'd deduced it. In retrospect, the signs were there—of course, at the time, he hadn't known that all those signs pointed to anything at all.

Yet even then, his instinct knew that something was wrong.

The Camden House scene was another moment Sherlock Holmes did not wish to relive, for reasons private to himself. Jeremy did his usual splendid job, anyway—what did Holmes truly have to fear?

But there was an abnormal amount of passion in Jeremy's delivery of the you are my tiger! line. Holmes had indeed been rather… worked up… at the time, but Jeremy went a little further than that. Something about it struck Holmes as being decidedly off.

He wished he'd known. Perhaps he could not have prevented it, after all—all that would happen afterwards—but he wished he'd known.

He blamed himself.

Author's Note:

You get it, yes? Holmes is looking back at the production of EMPT and wishing that he'd realized that Jeremy was ill. We'll dig deeper into this in a few more installments.

Btw, you guys have spoilt me, 'cause… usually, lately, I've been getting 7-ish reviews per chapter, and last time, I only got 4… and I was depressed. Umino Akiko, misunderstoodemon, Sui Generis Paroxysm, Hades Lord of the Dead, nomdeplume30… I missed you guys! =(

Next up, Watson's deductions at the end of EMPT. And after that, one more install in the arc, and then we move on to… "Musgrave Ritual," I think.

Please review!