Prompt #34
RB, Holmes & Watson
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce series, Holmes & Watson
Bumbling Watson lives up to his reputation as a 3-continents man. In fact, he’s more than that. For all that he’s not-a-genius in other ways, he’s brilliant in the bedroom, or so it would seem by the way he’s able to talk himself in to so many of them.
At first Holmes doesn’t even notice - just assumes that when Watson goes away with whomever, he’s keeping them out of the way with idle chit-chat. One day he realizes there’s a pattern forming in relation to Watson’s rumpledness and the cooperation of many secondary players in his little crime-dramas. The thing is, he’s not sure what, if anything, to do about it. On the one hand, yes, it gets people out of his hair and allows him unimpeded access to the crime scenes. On the other, that’s the housemaid’s chamber Watson’s just walked out of and he was leaving the stable boy’s company not thirty minutes before that. And whether his Watson knows it or not, Holmes considers him his husband in all but name, even though a relationship has never technically been mentioned or begun.
His Watson is a slut. A very successful and a very convenient slut, and apart from being floored that Watson’s so good at it, Holmes is not sure how to feel about it, nor if it’s safe to leave him alone for 5 minutes with the new and rather innocent-looking vicar.
The patter of Watson’s brilliant seductions can take place off-screen and we just take it as read, since writing that convincingly would be quite a challenge, and it’s kind of funny not to see it but just assume it somehow happens.