Thank you so very much! I have this tendency to do 99% of my angsty, heavily introspective fics in 2nd person, so it's very gratifying to hear that this habit isn't always to my detriment.
And now strange, horrible ideas of Mary having Holmes' baby are coming into my head.
OH YES. I sort of think that, going with one possible assumption I've seen around fandom that Mary died in childbed, it would be delicious to torture Holmes with the fact that his child killed Mary and brought Watson back within his purview. It certainly wasn't what he was intending--indeed, the brilliant mind had been all but completely silenced by the pounding of envy and anguish through his veins that drove him to her bed, but he can't deny that it was a favorable outcome. Reaping benefit from the demise of an (well, not entirely, but still) innocent puts him in his mind right along with the endless index of blackguards he maintains for his cases.
Hee, watch Alexandria get all ficcy-voiced just trying to explain. LOL. I've got to finish some of my less "whump-on-Sherlock" ones before I can come back to this, I think.
Anyway, thanks again so very much! I write and publish things fairly rarely, so everything I get back really manages to make my day. *happyface* <3
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And now strange, horrible ideas of Mary having Holmes' baby are coming into my head.
OH YES. I sort of think that, going with one possible assumption I've seen around fandom that Mary died in childbed, it would be delicious to torture Holmes with the fact that his child killed Mary and brought Watson back within his purview. It certainly wasn't what he was intending--indeed, the brilliant mind had been all but completely silenced by the pounding of envy and anguish through his veins that drove him to her bed, but he can't deny that it was a favorable outcome. Reaping benefit from the demise of an (well, not entirely, but still) innocent puts him in his mind right along with the endless index of blackguards he maintains for his cases.
Hee, watch Alexandria get all ficcy-voiced just trying to explain. LOL. I've got to finish some of my less "whump-on-Sherlock" ones before I can come back to this, I think.
Anyway, thanks again so very much! I write and publish things fairly rarely, so everything I get back really manages to make my day. *happyface* <3