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L'esprit de l'escalier by 3All_Just_Stories_in_the_End3
Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, BBC Sherlock - Fandom, Sherlock Holmes - fandom
3 Mar 2012
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Summary
L'esprit de l'escalier (or l'esprit d'escalier), usually translated as "staircase wit", is the act of thinking of a response, argument or clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it.
Sherlock Holmes has been gone for three years, three years too long.
It has given him too much time to think of the things he should have said.John Watson is going through incredible grief after losing his most cherished friend.
How could everything have been different before the treacherous fall from Reichenbach if things had have been said and done? Will they ever be able to right their wrongs?
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- Part 1 of L'esprit de l'escalier