The Sign of Four, Chs. 5-8: Foudre

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Title: The Sign of Four, Chs. 5-8: Foudre
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: A bolt of lightning on a moonlit autumn night.

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I'd been attracted to her from the first – to the honesty that shone through any plainness in her physical features. I admit that her background as an Army daughter may have influenced me as well.

But that night, in the presence of terror, she'd reached for my hand even as I did the same.

She felt the same as I.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Perfect!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That hand-holding scene is such a romantic moment.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Aw. A lovely moment to moonlight :)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

That hand-holding scene is very likely the most romantic moment in Doyle's fiction.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It is a wonderful moment ^__^

In SIGN Watson seems to represent it purely as a calming and peaceful moment. I love that you show the complement to that - it must have been a very exciting moment too. Not only realising what Mary's feelings were but, perhaps for the first time, realising the full depth of his own feelings too.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

It's such a romantic passage.