The Lion's Mane: Sorrow

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Canon Story: The Lion's Mane
Title: Sorrow (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: PG
Warning for canon character death.

I have accepted Holmes invitation to spend a weekend at his cottage.  It was tactfully made, for he understands my grief.  It will be a relief to speak freely of my loss, in a way I dare not generally do.  For when I lost Mary I could mourn openly, this loss, equal in pain, must be kept within my heart.

 

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! :(

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Time catches up with us all.

[debriswoman]

So sad:-(

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

(At least it makes a change from someone forever killing off poor Watson...)

Yes, it must be very difficult to mourn when it can't be done openly. Watson is lucky to have such a good and understanding friend in Holmes.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Society may not accept, but Holmes would allow Watson to grieve.

(Have you seen today's JWP prompt?)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

(I have now!) (^^")

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Your timing was immaculate ;)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Ach. Yes, when you can't unburden yourself of grief without risking prison, it's doubly painful.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

And sadly, it happened to people in reality.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - I saw it play out in AIDS time in the 80s. Judy Small the Australian folksinger wrote "No Tears for the Widow" about the bereft lovers who still had to keep writing "SINGLE" on all the forms after losing partners of decades-long relationships.

Even Rudyard Kipling touched on this extra-legal sorrow in his story "Without Benefit of Clergy." It's about an English soldier stationed in India who has an Indian lover and a child with her - who loses them both in separate illnesses, and has to keep returning to his barracks where he stays with the other bachelors and needs to keep pretending he's as free and unencumbered as they are.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about the Kipling story - but it's exactly that - no way one can mourn but internally.

[sanguinity]

!!!!!

Poor Watson. I'm glad Holmes could be there for him.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes, at least Holmes understands and will give him space to safely mourn.