the-seventh-stranger: anotherwellkeptsecret: The Devil’s Foot is one of my favorite ACD...

anotherwellkeptsecret:

The Devil’s Foot is one of my favorite ACD stories!

I broke through that cloud of despair and had a glimpse of Holmes’s face, white, rigid, and drawn with horror—the very look which I had seen upon the features of the dead. It was that vision which gave me an instant of sanity and of strength. I dashed from my chair, threw my arms round Holmes, and together we lurched through the door, and an instant afterwards had thrown ourselves down upon the grass plot and were lying side by side, conscious only of the glorious sunshine which was bursting its way through the hellish cloud of terror which had girt us in. Slowly it rose from our souls like the mists from a landscape until peace and reason had returned, and we were sitting upon the grass, wiping our clammy foreheads, and looking with apprehension at each other to mark the last traces of that terrific experience which we had undergone.

“Upon my word, Watson!” said Holmes at last with an unsteady voice, “I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one’s self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry.”

“You know,” I answered with some emotion, for I have never seen so much of Holmes’s heart before, “that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.”

This is basically mini Garridebs. If episode three is, in fact, Devil’s Foot, we’ll be in for some Sherlock/John feels.

What’s more, in the Granada version, Sherlock buries his drug habit. Literally and metaphorically.

Which would be AMAZE if they adapted that bit as well.

Oh this would make for some great stuff indeed.

“It is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.”

Yes! That’s John Watson’s main priority in life. To help Sherlock, because they love and depend on each other.