Ah, I'm so happy to know you liked this story. I really tried hard to follow what you asked for and I spent a long time thinking how best to work with the song. In the end, my connection to it was a bit more tangential than I would have liked, but my brain just kept going back to "Stop haunting me now" and I wanted to go in that direction.

I didn't think of Watson publishing the stories as retaliation so much as provocation -- trying to elicit any reaction from Holmes to change up the status quo. But as you said, it didn't work. It takes an awful lot to move the immovable object. ;)

Just delighted you liked the story! Thank you!