The Missing Three-Quarter: Re-echo

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Title: The Missing Three-Quarter: Re-echo
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: You may get feels on this ride. Postulation in progress.
Summary: Pain echoes pain. This storylet is a POV-shift of my earlier offering, Echo.

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I held Watson in our room as he wept, Mrs. Staunton’s fate clearly echoing his own tragic loss. “Perhaps I should not have taken this case,” I murmured.

He held me tighter, his voice clear though heavy with tears. “No. You need work. Better this than idleness turning your thoughts to the needle again.”

I held him all that night.

Comments

[debriswoman]

A sad reminder

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes, a very sad reminder.

And a good reworking of your previous 60.

[mafief.livejournal.com]

Yup, feels. :::makes squeaky sad noise:::

Thanks for including the link to your previous work, it helped put this in context.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Aw. Poor Watson. :(

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"The house of grief" is such a poignant ending to that story.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The story begins on such a lovely bit of Canon (Watson helping Holmes kick his cocaine habit) and ends with such grief.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

It's such a sad ending to the story and surely it would resonate with a man who lost his wife.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Fortunately he's got Holmes to take care of him.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes, Watson has lost Mary - but he's damn sure he's not going to lose Holmes as well.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

He actually lost both of them - but got Holmes back.