Fic: The Dead Man And The Ghost

[neon_footprint]

Title: The Dead Man and the Ghost
Author: 42footprints
Recipient: romanticidiot
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied character death.
Summary: Holmes comes home from Reichenbach to find that the world may not have changed, but Watson certainly has, and he learns the meaning of chiasmus.
Word Count: 1700

Comments

[wlk68]

There's a beautiful kind of starkness to this. Loved it.

[neon_footprint]

Thank you, that's exactly what I was going for :) Lovely comment.

[random_nexus]

Wow. So painfully portrayed here. Stark and harsh and yet loving and hopeful, which is HARD to do.

Excellently done, you.

[neon_footprint]

Thank you very much, what a kind and thoughtful comment.

[elder_bonnie]

Nothing pleasures me more as a reader than when the words themselves become the images and entwine with the emotionality of a phrase to create every vivid detail of the scene I picture in my head. This was almost a piece of visual art to me, and it was fantastic.

[neon_footprint]

Wow, thank you so much. That's a huge compliment, and I shall treasure it ♥

[thrace_adams]

OH wow...Watson was almost broken....I hope Holmes is able to put him back together. This was really emotional and well done as always. Like your grasp on both of these characters!

[neon_footprint]

Thank you honey ♥ I felt bad for breaking Watson so much, but I tried to reach him with Holmes and Mary dead, and this is what he said!

[crowson75]

Beautiful honey. It's simply put, sharp and grey, just like grief is. Just like of sleep is. And that final scene is gorgeous. &hearts

[neon_footprint]

Thank you, petal. You know how much trouble this story gave me, and I guess you're astute enough to see why now.

♥

[crowson75]

Absolutely. The tone had to be perfect. I think you did really well with Holmes' voice though. It really does work fabulously well.