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Title: The Third Student
Author: schemingreader
Pairing: None, Gen
Length: 1400 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Verse: ACD canon

Author's summary:This is a story I decided to write after reading The Adventure of the Three Students, after I read a really lovely, sexy slash fan fic, The Greek Tutor, about it. I found the canon story disturbing, and wanted to write a fic in the voice of the one character who doesn't speak a word during the story.

Reccer's comments: Really good gen fic is a treasure that often does not get the recognition, or readership, it deserves. Dealing with some of our negative reactions to and addressing the culture of Victorian England in a way that does not simply berate the past for not being the present, requires empathy, but also a capacity to reflect and a determination to do one's research. This has all that AND a plausible, believable story development and OMC in just a few hundred words. As a big Watson fan, I admit I cringed somewhat at her description of his interaction with the OMC, but in context it is uncomfortably likely that Watson, given his service experiences, would have behaved so.

The Third Student