The Fourth Time: Thank you ficlets in honor of our wonderful four timers

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We're winding down our fourth exchange here at acd_holmesfest and your loyal mods tweedisgood, spacemutineer, and methylviolet10b want to thank you all: writers, artists, readers, and commenters alike. We'll have our grand reveal of all creators shortly, but first, we would like to recognize a special group of people who have been with us since the beginning with a few gifts of our own. These lovely seven* have contributed to all four of our exchange rounds, and we would not be the vibrant community we are without their creativity and reliable contributions.

A hearty round of applause, please, for our amazing four timers: capt_facepalm, mistyzeo, garonne, mainecoon76, sherlockholmes, thesmallhobbit, and fabelschwester!

In your honor, friends, we mods wanted to do something special, so below each of you will find an extra 221B fic from one of us based on your prompts and the theme "The Fourth Time". Thank you so much for your imagination and company. Here's to you, and here's to four times. May it be five!

*Special apology to fabelschwester: Embarrassingly, we somehow missed your name in our original 4-timer list. Please accept our sincerest apologies for temporary mod-ular brain damage. We love you, and your gift is below -- sorry again!

Note to readers: These 221B ficlets come without summaries or warnings, and cover a wide range of subjects, themes, and pairings. Caveat emptor. Now on to the fic!

( The Fourth Time: Thank you in 7 x 221 words )