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Against all the available evidence, his colleagues decided long ago that he and Francis must be close. Like an old married couple, a reckless trainee in the Tax team once explained to him at the afterparty to the Christmas afterparty. Even when James had to dodge a surprisingly effective punch at a team away day, the consensus remained that they were the friendliest of enemies.
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The Maiden Voyage of the Tiresias by astolat
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
07 Oct 2003
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Someone's getting taken for a ride.
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Crozier and Fitzjames are Victorians. So they play Victorian parlor games until the bitter end.
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“I mean,” the stranger said, “to suggest that perhaps we are compatriots in more ways than one? Men of that—how may I put it—that antique homeland of the mind; countrymen of Harmodius and Aristogeiton; fellow-mourners after Hyacinth; confrères in the licence grecque—”
“I am from County Down,” said Francis uncertainly.
At a sculpture gallery in Rome, a certain misunderstanding unfolds.
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"Francis is certain he has long ago betrayed himself. Some gesture, some pained look. To say nothing of the fretful hours he spends at James Fitzjames' bedside. And in any case, James would have known the moment he saw them together."
Francis tries to find a way to put something behind them.
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