The Missing Three-Quarter: Pale Winter Sunshine

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Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Title: Pale Winter Sunshine
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: A woman, young and beautiful... Her calm, pale face, with dim, wide-opened blue eyes, looked upward from amid a great tangle of golden hair.


Afterwards, Holmes was careful of my feelings. But it is four years since Mary died. My only sorrow now… is that I no longer grieve over her.

Mrs. Staunton has gone, and taken the whole world with her. But gradually young Staunton will learn to live in its strange, new replacement—and then, one day, he will call it home.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

This is lovely. Poignant.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

The sorrowful moment - not of the grief, but of realizing that your grief will lift.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Seconding the poignant comment. Very in keeping with the end of the story.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thank you ^^ I thought this one worked well.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It's the tragedy and the blessing of grief - in most cases it passes. You think you can't live without someone - and then you do. Indeed, if they came back you wouldn't know how to fit them into your life.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I realise not everybody does get over their grief, but I think the tragedy and the blessing of grief for most people is that it passes.

[debriswoman]

Yes, can seem impossible to adjust to loss, yet somehow at some point, you usually do.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think so.

[debriswoman]

💐

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Very moving.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thank you ^^

[sanguinity]

I respectfully suggest to the good doctor that feeling sorrowful over no longer being a walking open wound is prima facie evidence that one is still grieving.

And also that maybe he should accept the TLC Holmes is attempting to offer.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes, perhaps Watson isn't out of the woods yet ^^"