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Only Dreams
By MonkeyBard
Rating: G
Length: 221B
Universe: ACD – Silverfox AU
Summary: Do Watsons dream of electric Lestrades?
Warning: DoubleCrack!Fic
Date: 11 July 2019
JWP #11: So Many AUs, So Little Time: Magic? Sci-fi? Mythological beings? Aliens? Cyborgs? Coffeeshops? Cats? The choice (or choices) are up to you. Follow in the footsteps of the BBC, CBS, the creators of Sherlock Hound, and so many others, and set Holmes and Watson in an alternate universe.
A/N: Yeah, I went there.


There was no question I was dreaming. I walked through seemingly endless corridors of metal with glowing panes like windows to nothing but light.

I saw no one and at first thought the place uninhabited. Turning a corner, I found myself in a room with multiple doors, free of handles, along one wall. A large sign above declared COMMAND & CONTROL HALT.

A train station, although like none I have seen aboveground or below. Lights over each door began to pulse green. A train was arriving. Did I deduce or did I simply know? I stood back, waiting to see what the train would disgorge.

People, but so oddly dressed. They swarmed past me as though I were a ghost, which perhaps in my dream state I was. Men and women alike in trousers. Strange waistcoats covered in pockets. Indescribable small machines clipped to belts.

Last to emerge was a man I recognized in the way one knows someone in a dream. Dark hair turning grey. Skin pale from countless sunless days. Cheeks shadowed with stubble. Brown eyes intense in the way I had seen when on a case with Holmes and myself.

Him but not him.

“Inspector Lestrade?”

He turned to me about to speak—

When a shout woke me to the dawn, the sun in my eyes too bright.

Date: 2019-07-11 07:16 pm (UTC)
smallhobbit: (Lestrade trio)
From: [personal profile] smallhobbit
Great idea!

Date: 2019-07-11 08:55 pm (UTC)
thesadchicken: (hotson)
From: [personal profile] thesadchicken
Nicely done!!

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