Promptfic. Retirement Era: Years of cocaine use are starting to take their toll on Holmes. Watson moves out to live with him and take care of him and they seem to just pick up where they left off when they were together before.

H/W slash. movie!plot canon!writing. "He motions to a painting. Upon the canvas a woman is readying herself to draw a bath. 'For example: She is as beautiful as women come. But, pray tell, what do you think was the motivation behind the painter's hand?.'"

Holmes is a self-destructive drug addict because the alternative would destroy him faster. Holmes/Watson slash.

Farraj, Lawrence, and a ghost in Cairo. He knows sand is stone worn by the wind, but he will not allow himself to remember. There is only the glory of the moment, and the faint touch of other human lives, gone almost before it begins.

Holmes spends a lot of time on his daydreams. Slash