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.

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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.