Long Live the King (2/2)

[hope_tang]

Title: Long Live the King (2/2)
Author: hope_tang
Rating: PG
Spoiler Warning:The Reichenbach Fall
Warnings:
[(includes potential story spoilers; click to open)]
assumed major character death, discussion of violent crime, non-graphic violence and attempted murder(s), brief mention of off-screen harm to children

Summary: The seven or eight months After are hell. The seventeen months after that aren’t much better.

Comments

[eridne]

Oh, is this really the end?
I hope they survived. :(

Nice touch on the change in formatting for waiting part btw.

[hope_tang]

It's the end of this particular chapter, but like the last line says, "It's not over." ;)

Thanks; the HTML coding for this entire piece was tricky (especially the right aligns). Of course, in the sequel/companion piece to this, I also have to code a list. \O/

And if the ending is nagging at you, I will say this: DI Greg Lestrade is one of my favorite characters, and ...I'm a happy endings kind of girl. :)

[eridne]

Haha. I wasn't sure how to interpret the last line, after reading "his dying boss". But yay for the ambiguity then, I can now tell myself the whole team gets a happy ending. :)

Will look forward to your companion piece.

[simplystars]

I, too, am relieved to know it's not the end of the story! I find this to be a riveting Lestrade character study - and a very even-handed treatment of Sally, too. :)

(You might consider putting a 'TBC' or 'to be continued' at the end of this section to spare future readers undue angst...?)

[hope_tang]

...to spare future readers undue angst...

But I like --oh, wait, no, I'm not Moffat and Gatiss, so I don't have to torment my readers with angst. =D

I'm happy that you liked this. I've always had a soft spot for my fictional police officers, and Lestrade is one of my favorites. As for Sally, I believe that there's far more to her character than what we've seen on screen. Lestrade wouldn't keep her around on his team if she wasn't a sharp investigator.