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Fic: Musings After the Fall

Feb 12, 2011 00:19

Title: Musings After the Fall
Author: angelmaple
Word Count: 2557
Rating: 12/PG-13
Warnings: mentions of adultery, (unjustified) guilt of innocent party, miscarriage
Characters: Clara, John, Sherlock
Summary: She hates Harry for the despair and pleading and guilt in her eyes, distilled into a single look that made Clara's heart clench with a sickening tightness.
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angst, fandom: sherlock, fanfic

Comments 10

gracious_anne February 12 2011, 05:14:56 UTC

ooooh, more Harry/Clara (kinda) fic. Yes!

I will properly read this in the morning and give you a real comment but I couldn't contain my excitement.

angelmaple February 12 2011, 07:00:52 UTC

Aw, thank you! I hope that you'll like it.

rhiannon87 February 12 2011, 05:17:52 UTC

Oh, this is lovely. Beautiful development of a character we've only heard of in passing. I love how Sherlock's genuinely excited to be talking to another musician, too.

angelmaple February 12 2011, 06:58:04 UTC

So glad you enjoyed it! I imagine that Sherlock was going to say something more disparaging but thought better of it hehe... but yes, he's excited considering there was no homicide in sight...

indusnm February 12 2011, 05:49:01 UTC

I have to admit to hating the idea that anyone drives someone into someone else's arms- it's always seemed like a blame the victim thing to me. But I have known a lot of women married to alcoholics and I can see that attitude in them. When one spouse escapes into some substance or the other, escapes responsibility and life in a bottle or a needle, the other one goes through something that you're describing. The feeling of guilt, as if they're the ones giving up when the truth is that there's nothing more depressing and difficult than keeping a relationship alive, keeping your partner alive, alone and without any support ( ... )

angelmaple February 12 2011, 06:51:04 UTC

My goodness, first, thank you, so very much, for such a thoughtful and detailed review. Second, I'm really sincerely sorry that the fic contained your trigger - I considered giving a warning, but I wasn't sure how to without giving things away. But I will go to add a warning, right away ( ... )

indusnm February 12 2011, 15:48:19 UTC

Oh no, I absolutely got what you were trying to say- I should explain that the case I was referring to earlier, my aunt took my uncle back after he cheated once, and well, I'm a huge believer that once doesn't stay once if you go back to the same patterns, which is why I'd tell Clara to stay away til Harry's sober. That was what I meant when I said I'd advise Clara to leave. But I did get the mitigating circumstances and that Harry might never do it again.

As for Sherlock, I'm sorry I didn't mean that I thought his advice was cruel, but I meant that he'd always tell someone to pursue something that they wanted, even if it wasn't good for them? Not that this would necessarily be bad for Clara, but more that a lot of people would hesitate to give advice in this case because it COULD be bad for her. But Sherlock would say go for it anyway, lol, because safe is boring.

angelmaple February 13 2011, 01:55:40 UTC

I'm a huge believer that once doesn't stay once if you go back to the same patterns, which is why I'd tell Clara to stay away til Harry's sober.

Yeah, I definitely have to agree with the good sense and logic there... I guess I'm just too... hopeful.

a lot of people would hesitate to give advice in this case because it COULD be bad for her. But Sherlock would say go for it anyway, lol, because safe is boring.

Yes, exactly. Sherlock doesn't think it through. Or he doesn't give his words enough weight in regards to how it might affect others. He just does it. Fingers crossed that this time it doesn't all go to hell though...

gracious_anne February 12 2011, 17:23:35 UTC

I am glad I waited until I was rested to read this.

This is just gorgeous. I'm almost close to tears. It's sad, but it's the right sort of sadness,if that makes any sense. It's something we've all felt before I think in our lives. The details and the tone are perfect.
I don't play any musical instruments and I don't know too much about classical music so I had to look up the pieces mentioned.
Classical music and the violin have always been in Sherlock Holmes and I'm so glad to see it here, and used so subtly to bring another dimension to this fiction.
I just love how you've woven threads of the Canon with this music and John Watson's characterization and Sherlock's text at the end bringing us full circle.
This heartbreakingly and wonderful written. Thank you.

angelmaple February 13 2011, 01:48:19 UTC

Thank you for leaving such a thoughtful comment! I'm very glad that you liked it, esp. that you thought the music worked. I'm not exactly sure how it happened; somehow Clara ended up a professional violinist and the pieces just kind of... tumbled from my brain onto the page. Anyway, thanks again!