Fic Rec: Save The Last Dance For Me
Title: Save The Last Dance for Me
Author: Lilith
Pairing: Sherlock/Mrs Hudson
Length: approx. 52,000 words
Rating: explicit
Warnings: major character death
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock Holmes and Martha Hudson, friendship, love and romance:
He kissed her cheek again and his lips lingered for a fraction of a second longer than normal. “Good-night, Mrs Hudson.”
She sat back on the sofa when he’d gone and touched her hand to her cheek, just like a giddy girl.
There are things that you don’t wish for, things that you don’t ever let yourself think about. Not even when you’re dying, least of all then when the cruel mirror shows you how old and ill you are. Youth is just an illusion, a flutter of butterfly wings in your soul, and there’s no point crying for the moon.
Reccer's comments: Yes, this is the fic where Sherlock and Mrs Hudson become lovers and even end up marrying each other. Sherlock may be a virgin at the beginning of the fic but yet it is he who seduces Martha, and remains the driving force behind the whole madcap enterprise.
Told from Mrs Hudson’s POV the writer captures her voice perfectly from first to last. The spot on language, full of lovely Briticisms turns reading this fic into a wonderful experience. But once you’ve accepted the premise this fic has so much more to give for Martha Hudson's portrayal feels a 100% IC throughout. It begins with her reaction to the bad news she's received and her musings over what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She doesn't want to see the midnight sun or go swimming with dolphins. Reading that put a smile on my face for that's so like the Mrs Hudson we meet in the series. She may like to present a dotty exterior but there's also a side to her that's as tough as nails.
Both sides of her are wonderfully maintained throughout the fic as it slowly unfolds from one unlikely scenario to the next in such a way it's highly believable. Her reactions to each of the other characters ring true throughout the story. Scenes that especially stood out to me where the row between Sherlock and John when John discovers Sherlock and Mrs Hudson have started an affair and Martha’s misery when Sherlock goes missing. Even at the end of her tether she can still spare a thought for the unhappiness of others, and then she decides that this time she doesn't really want to care, even though that makes her miserable as well.
And of course Mrs Hudson is the one to bring John back into the fold. Mycroft's attitude throughout had me dancing with happiness. Yes, that's my Mycroft. Anything to make his little brother happy. He'll stand by his brother, no matter what. And more than anyone else he realises why his brother would choose Martha Hudson.
Unavoidably Mrs Hudson does die in the end but before that this fic takes you on several turns around the room, from the lowest low to the highest high of a tumultuous and true love affair.
Enjoy!
Author: Lilith
Pairing: Sherlock/Mrs Hudson
Length: approx. 52,000 words
Rating: explicit
Warnings: major character death
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock Holmes and Martha Hudson, friendship, love and romance:
He kissed her cheek again and his lips lingered for a fraction of a second longer than normal. “Good-night, Mrs Hudson.”
She sat back on the sofa when he’d gone and touched her hand to her cheek, just like a giddy girl.
There are things that you don’t wish for, things that you don’t ever let yourself think about. Not even when you’re dying, least of all then when the cruel mirror shows you how old and ill you are. Youth is just an illusion, a flutter of butterfly wings in your soul, and there’s no point crying for the moon.
Reccer's comments: Yes, this is the fic where Sherlock and Mrs Hudson become lovers and even end up marrying each other. Sherlock may be a virgin at the beginning of the fic but yet it is he who seduces Martha, and remains the driving force behind the whole madcap enterprise.
Told from Mrs Hudson’s POV the writer captures her voice perfectly from first to last. The spot on language, full of lovely Briticisms turns reading this fic into a wonderful experience. But once you’ve accepted the premise this fic has so much more to give for Martha Hudson's portrayal feels a 100% IC throughout. It begins with her reaction to the bad news she's received and her musings over what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She doesn't want to see the midnight sun or go swimming with dolphins. Reading that put a smile on my face for that's so like the Mrs Hudson we meet in the series. She may like to present a dotty exterior but there's also a side to her that's as tough as nails.
Both sides of her are wonderfully maintained throughout the fic as it slowly unfolds from one unlikely scenario to the next in such a way it's highly believable. Her reactions to each of the other characters ring true throughout the story. Scenes that especially stood out to me where the row between Sherlock and John when John discovers Sherlock and Mrs Hudson have started an affair and Martha’s misery when Sherlock goes missing. Even at the end of her tether she can still spare a thought for the unhappiness of others, and then she decides that this time she doesn't really want to care, even though that makes her miserable as well.
And of course Mrs Hudson is the one to bring John back into the fold. Mycroft's attitude throughout had me dancing with happiness. Yes, that's my Mycroft. Anything to make his little brother happy. He'll stand by his brother, no matter what. And more than anyone else he realises why his brother would choose Martha Hudson.
Unavoidably Mrs Hudson does die in the end but before that this fic takes you on several turns around the room, from the lowest low to the highest high of a tumultuous and true love affair.
Enjoy!