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OTF #05 Taking Care of Each Other

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PLEASE READ: I am taking the 30-prompt OTP challenge fav.me/d5dn7ex and CHANGING it to be "OTF"--"one true family," not "one true pairing." I believe, as you all know, that Poirot and Hastings have a COMPLETELY INNOCENT, brotherly type bond, but I just wanted to make that extra-clear here. Most of the themes on this challenge are G-rated and can apply to familial relationships just as easily as romantic (and I thought they were just too cute to pass up, hence me jumping on the challenge bandwagon Aww), and the few that aren't, I of course will be finding innocent substitutes for. In a few of my OTF drawings Japp or Miss Lemon will feature instead of Poirot or Hastings or with them, because to me, Poirot, Hastings, Japp, and Miss Lemon are just one big adorable family!
Just to say again, this is familial, brotherly love! Not slash :) (Smile)
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*I skipped ahead with this one because, first of all, I was unsure what I wanted to do for the next prompt, and second, I just really wanted to draw Hastings taking care of Poirot. I am doing a similar replacement as Cuddles did here cuddlesaurus21.deviantart.com/… *
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Poirot has a really bad case of the flue, and since Miss Lemon is on holiday, Hastings has to take care of his old friend. :)
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HP
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HP Scanjet djf4200
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Feb 6, 2014, 8:40:57 AM
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I feel much as you do about Christie having written a final book where Poirot actually dies - but I confess I don't mind if he's occasionally shown to be sick or injured, especially if he gets that way working a case, or doing something heroic, like trying to get the criminal away from someone (which, admittedly, he doesn't often do.) For him to be sick or injured can be - I don't want to say "romantic" exactly - but it provides opportunities for Hastings, Miss Lemon, and, in our fanfic, Vera, to show how much they care about him.

I imagine Hastings' comical puritanism coming into play if Vera's involved: "Look here - she can't be in Poirot's bedroom!"

Or some medical person looking from Miss Lemon to Vera and back again and asking something like, "Is one of you Mrs. Poirot?"

Or, someone like Japp or a police  or medical person asks Vera what she's doing there, and she delivers the line about Hercule and her having "a love that could burn down a city." (I loved that line, and I wish she could have used it in a less sad context.) (And perhaps add, "something you English police don't know anything about.")

But I also imagine Miss Lemon taking care of Poirot, but he's out of it and dreaming (and perhaps mumbling) about Vera. (Sometimes, though, I almost think I want him to "find" Miss Lemon, especially when I remember what happens in the series' Labours - and Mesopotamia.)