What if Holmes didn't want a roommate and Stamford never inquired Watson about it? A while later Holmes meets someone "interesting" at the library. Platonic. AU.
It's quite a shock for Mycroft Holmes to meet someone with his same intellect, he walks over to the boy, three years his junior, aged 18, who introduces himself as James Moriarty. Or Mycroft remembers an old friend. OOC AU. Platonic. Idc
A story about how Virgil goes from a reluctant guide to the affectionate friend and mentor of Dante. Based after the actual poem not the game. T because..well they're in Hell.
It was always, "my dear Watson" but in a moment of terror, when Holmes can think of nothing else he calls his doctor by a different name.
To the famous detective he was always "Watson" but on a vacation on the cornish coast the Dr. is called by something else