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1. Desperate
It was a desperate hope that had him scanning faces at the train station, and it was a pleasant surprise when he saw one he recognized.
2. Angry
Knowing the term 'bull pup' referred to a revolver, Holmes found the term's other meaning several years later when Watson lost his temper in a big way for the first time.
3. Exhausted
After a long day at his practice, he woke on the settee under a rug he didn't remember grabbing.
4. Uneasy
Something about this case made him uneasy, but it took a comment from Watson to illuminate what that something was.
5. Alone
If they were honest, both were afraid of the same thing: being alone.
6. Bleeding
More focused on the fight, it was only when his head began to swim that he noticed he was bleeding.
7. Haunted
Holmes noticed the haunted look in Watson's eyes when a reporter asked "what Mr. Holmes would have done" and resolved to banish it as quickly as possible.
8. Helpless
He hated feeling helpless, but his leg refused to bear his weight another step.
9. Dark
Being told the space had no light was much preferable to believing there was light but being unable to see it.
10. Trapped
Berating himself once again for the trouble he had experienced learning to pick locks, he soon gave up hope of escaping and settled on hoping for rescue.
11. Terrified
The child's terror upon finding herself with strangers was nothing compared to said strangers' befuddlement on finding a toddler on their doorstep.
12. Sick
Holmes thought nothing of Watson choosing to sleep late one morning, only growing worried when luncheon drew near and the doctor still remained abed.
13. Loathsome
When even Watson agreed that the woman was loathsome, Holmes knew he had a valid excuse to decline her party invitation.
14. Freezing
Being stuck in a blizzard was disorienting and cold, but he was more worried that his friend had stopped answering his attempts at conversation.
15. Burning
He faintly heard a voice say he was burning, but the way he was shivering showed that couldn't be right.
16. Lonely
He had never imagined that an empty house could carry such a tangible loneliness.
17. Heroic
Even the papers called his braving the flames to save his friend and their client "heroic" and "brave," but he refused to speak of it, not wanting to remember just how close that one had been.
18. Guilty
If seeing the bowed posture and empty expression sent a ripple of grief through him, the hollowness in his friend's voice nearly tore him apart.
19. Crippled
Maybe if he could convince someone else he wasn't crippled, he could convince himself.
20. Missing
Watson had an infuriating knack to find any missing item in the disaster of the sitting room within five minutes of entering.
21. Motionless
He expected to see his friend motionless beneath the broken window, but he couldn't decide whether to be worried or relieved when neither he nor the man who had tackled him were anywhere to be found.
22. Filthy
He worried more about keeping them afloat than the filthy water's effect on an open wound—one thing at a time.
23. Demented
He was kicking himself for not discerning the man's demented plan, because now his friend was paying for it.
24. Bitter
Watson laughed heartily when his warning that the water was bitter went unheeded.
25. Unconscious
Of all the things he had hoped to do after his return from a weekend's holiday, 'find Holmes unconscious on his bedroom floor' was definitely not one of them.
26. Plead
It took a fair bit of pleading, and perhaps a small bit of blackmail, to prevent Lestrade spreading the word that Holmes' black eye had come from walking into a streetlamp in broad daylight.
27. Flee
On escaping from the room he had been trapped in for four days, he didn't need to hear his abductors give chase to know to flee quietly.
28. Hide
When a snowstorm kept them trapped for nearly a week, the only way he found to sufficiently occupy his flatmate was to hide his things—as many and as fast as he could.
29. Sleep
When the epidemic ravaging London kept the doctor up for the third night in a row, Holmes resorted to drugging his tea to force him to get some rest.
30. Wonder
It had taken him nearly two decades, but he finally managed to wrap Holmes' Christmas present in such a way that the detective was left wondering until Christmas morning.
31. Clutch
Watson only admitted how long it had taken him to learn to drive after he could say that Holmes had taken far longer.
32. Break
Teapots, teacups, and various bits of china broke nearly every day, but the first time Mrs. Hudson truly got angry was when Holmes broke a picture she was unable to replace.
33. Destroy
During a rare case in western America, Holmes and Watson had the unfortunate chance to marvel at wind's power of destruction.
34. Storm
The storm itself hadn't dropped all that much snow, but what had fallen melted and refroze so many times very few people were willing to go out in it.
35. Leap
He hated having to rewrite it for publishing, but Watson had fallen even more in love with her when Mary proposed to him on February 29th.
36. Scream
If he had known the man was going to scream like that, he would have put a spider on the breakfast table years ago.
37. Fall
He had no idea how many times he had watched his friend go over the falls in his dreams, nor did he know how many times he had gone over them himself.
38. Slander
When the stumbling drunk came into Scotland Yard demanding they arrest "that insane detective" for assault, the Yarders sent him back out the door feeling glad he himself wasn't facing charges for slander and threats.
39. Bind
He hated the feeling of suffocation that came with binding a rib fracture, and it was always a trial to keep the bandages on as long as they needed to be.
40. Accuse
Deducing the culprit was one thing, but finding enough proof to formally accuse him was quite another.
41. Experiment
As they grew more comfortable with each other, Holmes frequently found himself with an audience during his experiments.
42. Shiver
Lestrade thought his shiver had been a result of cold, and he was content to let the Yarder be mistaken.
43. Attack
Despite not expecting the attack, Watson quickly disabused Holmes of any notion that his shoulder prevented him from holding his own in a fight.
44. Stumble
The wet cold set his leg to aching, and the ice complicated matters by refusing his stick purchase on the cobblestones.
45. Lose
Even with a competitive streak wide enough to make him hate losing, he would play chess if it meant occupying his flatmate long enough to succeed in his goal.
46. Defeat
The newspapers all called the battle a defeat, but only when he studied his flatmate did he learn just how costly that defeat had been.
47. Fail
He had always hated failure, but he was never sure when the word had changed meanings from relating to the case to relating to his friend.
48. Choke
After failing to free himself from the chokehold, his last thought was hoping Holmes remained uninjured.
49. Murder
"So much for a quiet holiday," was his thought as Holmes led the way toward a murder investigation.
50. Crawl
While thankfully not claustrophobic, his intense dislike of confined spaces did nothing to help him crawl through the low tunnel.
51. Shackles
Ropes could be cut, and locks could be picked, but shackles were most bothersome to get off.
52. Prison
When his distraction landed him in a cell for the night, he resolved to have a talk with Holmes about planning ahead.
53. Alley
The Irregular led him through so many alleys before they reached the patient, he knew he had no chance of finding his way back on his own.
54. Rope
When an evening was spent learning how to get out of bonds, the rope they had been using mysteriously disappeared the next day, as did the spare pair of handcuffs.
55. Injection
The only positive he could see in their current predicament was if it inspired Holmes to give up the cocaine for good.
56. Instrument
Holmes knew he loved music, but if he ever deduced what Watson's instrument had been, he wisely kept it to himself.
57. Dog
After so many clients mistook his warning to Holmes at the beginning to refer to a canine 'bull pup,' he eventually stopped correcting them and started responding that he had given it away after it found the chemistry set.
58. Horse
What irritated Holmes often amused Watson, and the day Holmes found out that Watson could ride better than him despite his wounds did nothing to change this.
59. Snake
The first—and only—time Holmes ever saw Watson pick up a gun in his bedroom was also the day the snake that had escaped a local handler made it into their rooms.
60. Bed
For the first week after Holmes' return, Watson slept on the settee more often than his bed.
61. Poker
When Watson saw Holmes wield a poker at an intruder as skillfully as if it were a foil, he started keeping something else near his desk should another break-in occur.
62. Acid
The same day Watson decided to begin ignoring the chemistry set in the hopes of curbing his interest, Holmes realized the need to label his various supplies.
63. Target
Dark underground tunnels became so much worse when someone was shooting at them.
64. Fire
He never hesitated to run into the burning house after his friend; he would rather go together than face life alone again.
65. River
Rivers were great at throwing the bloodhounds off the scent, but they were not so good at preventing hypothermia.
66. Water
A healthy body can last but three days without water—an injured one much less.
67. Stone
It baffled Watson that people would go to such cruel lengths over a colorful rock.
68. Iron
When Holmes found a scrap of iron, Watson returned that evening to see the scrap turning bright orange in the fireplace as his flatmate experimented with quenching mediums.
69. Wood
The fight pushed him against the edge, and he could feel the wooden railing digging into his back as he fought to avoid going into the water.
70. Bullet
Trying to stop the bleeding, he couldn't help hoping that the warning about living by the sword didn't apply to bullets as well.
71. Dagger
Mrs. Hudson shocked her neighbors with the revelation that "of course" Doctor Watson had taught her to use a dagger, as if he would have done anything else after the intruder tried to use her against Mr. Holmes.
72. Poison
For having no knowledge of practical gardening, Sherlock Holmes certainly knew his poisons.
73. Rifle
He was unsure whether to be revolted or grateful; on the one hand, the bullet had given him his dearest friend, but on the other, its effects would remain with said friend the rest of his life.
74. Club
Watson kept his club membership specifically for the nights that Holmes insisted on filling the flat with noxious fumes from his chemistry set.
75. Whip
When he saw what the whip had done to his friend's back, he suddenly wished he had done a lot more to the villains before handing them over to the Yard.
76. Late Nights
A late night on a stakeout had its positives, but the occasional results of those late nights never did.
77. Snowstorm
When a snowstorm kept him from visiting on Christmas, he apparently wasn't the only one disappointed, as evidenced by Holmes' surprise arrival.
78. Thunderstorm
Holmes' worry increased when the storm hit and Watson was late.
79. House Fire
When the house up the street went up in flames, Lestrade should have expected to find Mr. Holmes and Doctor Watson in the middle of the chaos.
80. Accident
Holmes' accidental flour explosion in the kitchen had two unfortunate results: his experiment was ruined and Mrs. Hudson raised his rent to cover the damage.
81. Abduction
It had been a week since he had last seen his flatmate, and he was starting to wonder if they would ever find him.
82. Falling
Holmes was the one who had gone over the falls, so why did Watson feel as if he was falling?
83. Beating
The elation of finally beating Holmes at chess was tempered by the knowledge that he only managed it because Holmes was distracted.
84. Dark Alley
The small hand in his own was the only way he would ever find the Irregular's headquarters on the other side of this dark alley.
85. Exhaustion
He knew it was Holmes' habit to forego sleep during a case, but that didn't mean he condoned the state of exhaustion the detective always worked himself into.
86. Death
The biggest difference between Holmes' and Mary's was that one had a body, so why had the irrational hope sprung to life after the elation of Holmes' return wore off?
87. Revenge
Almost every intruder had revenge on the mind, but very few had the means to carry it out.
88. Collapse
Upon regaining consciousness, the first thing he heard was his flatmate's voice admonishing him for ignoring an illness to the point of collapse.
89. Knockout
He disliked boxing, but liking it had nothing to do with his ability to knock out his opponent.
90. Self-defense
The guilt of taking a life, even in self-defense, was one of the more difficult guilts to ease.
91. Defense of another
When Watson arrived home with scraped knuckles, he refused to admit whom he had hit and why; he flushed when Holmes easily deduced it and thanked him.
92. Illness – contracted from patient
He woke three days later to Holmes by his bed asking him if he knew where and who he was.
93. Illness – contracted during a case
The client refused to tell them the nature of the disease that had killed his relative until his flatmate didn't get out of bed one morning.
94. Injury – Accidental
Very few things could scare their Irregulars, but seeing Doctor Watson slip on the ice after being hit with one of their snowballs was one of them.
95. Injury – Intentional
It took Holmes until the next morning to realize the injury he had rendered while under the influence of his cocaine.
96. Author's Choice – Active
After such an active youth, his convalescence galled him to the extreme.
97. Author's Choice – Conductor
A stranger in the conductor's spot at a concert heralded the beginning of one of their more sporadic cases.
98. Author's Choice – Mystery
There were times Watson thought that Holmes disliked eating because a mystery was all the sustenance he needed.
99. Author's Choice – Bread
They never talked about it, but Watson knew why Mrs. Hudson stopped leaving her bread to rise downstairs.
100. Author's Choice – Convenience
What started as a matter of financial convenience bloomed into a lifelong friendship.