fanfiction: yours
Title: Yours
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: past canon character death
Word Count: ~4,000
Summary: In which Holmes almost does not survive Reichenbach, and Watson realizes that Holmes was expecting that all along. Holmes/Watson, Watson/Mary, Holmes/Irene
( He almost chooses not to come back.
Falling, his eyes closed, Watson’s face like the ghost of a photograph on his eyelids, Holmes imagines what it would be like to drown-lungs seizing, a few brief seconds of pain like acid in his chest, and then silence, calm, as the water drags him down-and he thinks that wouldn’t be so bad, would it. )
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: past canon character death
Word Count: ~4,000
Summary: In which Holmes almost does not survive Reichenbach, and Watson realizes that Holmes was expecting that all along. Holmes/Watson, Watson/Mary, Holmes/Irene
( He almost chooses not to come back.
Falling, his eyes closed, Watson’s face like the ghost of a photograph on his eyelids, Holmes imagines what it would be like to drown-lungs seizing, a few brief seconds of pain like acid in his chest, and then silence, calm, as the water drags him down-and he thinks that wouldn’t be so bad, would it. )