A/N: I do have all of these finished, so there will be one a day until we reach 100 :) Sound good?
41. Experiment
He had never had a flat mate before, so when Mrs. Hudson mentioned the price at Baker Street, he went away disgruntled, for he knew it was too much for him alone; but when a Doctor Watson agreed to go halves, he thought perhaps he would try it out.
42. Shiver
Since his return from the hot eastern climate, he seemed to have been perpetually chilled—even in the heat of an English summer; Holmes noticed at once, but it was months before he built up the courage to place a blanket over the shivering doctor, as he slept be the fire.
43. Attack
After the strain of being marked for death, and two near misses just hours before, when Holmes was accosted by one of Moriarty's gang, his temper flared; a single punch was enough to take this one down, and he willed the Professor to try harder next time.
44. Stumble
They had to keep moving, the murderers were behind them, and gaining, so when the detective stifled a moan, and clutched his wounded stomach, Watson simply tightened his grip around Holmes' shoulders, when his legs gave out from under him, Watson carried him—he wasn't going to let Holmes die again.
45. Lose
When Mycroft got the telephone call in the mid 1940s, and heard his name cut off by choked swallows, his heart sank; one of them was gone then.
46. Defeat
Now was not the time to give up, but as every one of his plans had been anticipated, and counteracted, and even now the superior mind plotted their ruin as they sat tied together, not even Watson's loyal presence was enough to give him hope.
47. Fail
The allure was strong as it sat there, winking at him from across the room and he stared mesmerized; the feeling of regret at breaking a promise was quickly drowned out in the rush of the drug entering his bloodstream.
48. Choke
It was a truly terrible thing to not be able to breath, a detached part of his mind thought, the rest of him succumbing to panic as the brutes hands tightened around his throat.
49. Murder
An ongoing prank war (which was driving Mrs. Hudson to distraction) caused Holmes to experience a particularly good rebuttal from Watson; he stood surveying the damage, and wondered whether Lestrade would protest at discovering a very dead doctor on his next visit.
50. Crawl
With a blow to the lower leg, combined with a dizzying concussion, and a swollen eye, making walking impossible, he forged onward on his hands and knees, making his painful way towards his fallen friend.
51. Shackles
Watson's eyes pleaded for him to not give in, but the laughs of their captors pounded home the truth; he could give up any life, his own included, except for his, and they knew it—he lowered his weapon.
52. Prison
"Well this was a fine idea," said Watson, and Holmes gave him a dirty glare which could barely be seen in the gloomy Californian jail cell.
53. Alley
Holmes had warned him of lonely alleys, and darkened corners, but as he stiffly knelt, and opened his Gladstone bag, he pulled a wry face—half his patients were found there.
54. Rope
The rope burned his hand as he climbed, but it was almost welcome in the bitter cold of the mountains of Tibet.
55. Injection
It was instinct to fill the hypodermic syringe, his fingers knew the exact amount to draw, tied the tourniquet, and found the vein unerringly, but his fingers shook as he pushed in the plunger into Watson's arm; his own boredom was nothing to the white-faced pain in his friends eyes.
56. Instrument
He worked with many different tools throughout any given day: a fork or knife, a razor blade and shaving brush, a scalpel, a revolver… but he liked best his friend's favorite tool, he thought –as Holmes drew the bow across the strings.
57. Dog
Holmes had never been fond of dogs, and the feeling was quite mutual (as evidenced by his inauspicious meeting with Victor Trevor) but even he could not help but take some little pity on the pathetic puppy that the Irregulars had begged him to keep warm for the night.
58. Horse
'Just one more race,' Watson told himself, but when yet another horse lost, he grimaced when he realized he faced the grim task of telling Holmes he could not pay his half of the rent that month.
59. Snake
He'd thought that the 'Speckled Band' had been an animal terror, but that was nothing to the hooded cobra that sat flicking its tongue a mere two and a half feet from their boots.
60. Bed
Holmes had lived with the man for a week when he began to realize that Watson wasn't a late sleeper by inclination, but by necessity; he recognized the habit of waiting until the wee hours of the night to be absolutely sure they will drop off immediately, rather than listen to their own thoughts.
