Winter in London - Part I

[w_a_i_d]

In response to this prompt, some liberties taken with the specifics. Watson tries to live with the memory of a terrible bargain in secrecy.

Warnings: Emotional aftermath of rape.

Comments

[bk7brokemybrain]

This was rec'd today by
schemingreader, and so far this first part is so beautifully written. I can't imagine how happy that anonymous prompter must be. Wow.
Onward...

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you! It's so nice to see new people starting from the beginning of this, -- I've already thanked schemingreader. I hope you'll enjoy the rest of it.

The prompter does seem pretty happy, which is good, seeing as I really didn't use much more than the bare bones of her prompt and still haven't finished the bloody thing.

Can I just say..

[katead]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not reading it til tonight when I can concentrate but I'm very excited :D

Re: Can I just say..

[katead]

ugh, this was supposed to be for the latest part but I guess you've got it anyway now ;) I shall use the excuse that I was trying not to spoil anything for later by not looking at it (which although rather pathetic as excuses go is true)

Re: Can I just say..

[w_a_i_d]

Heh, well I appreciate the sentiment wherever it ends up!

[lapislazuli67]

At the moment I'm going through all those kinkmeme-threads and that's where I found this story a few weeks ago. I tend to skip the rape-prompts because usually they squick me out pretty badly and pretty quickly and I had already scrolled by this one. Then I felt daring and thought "well,let's see how far you'll come, before getting thrown out". But you had me after the second paragraph and I didn't stop once.

Now I'm reading it for the second time, so obviously the squick didn't happen at all and this story is absolutely gorgeous and heartbreaking and wonderful. You are a miracle writer. :-)

There are so many lines I like, I would probaly qoute the whole thing if I tried to point them out...

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you so much -- what lovely things to say. It's always particularly gratifying when I manage to hook someone who's (understandably!) put off by the prompt and subject matter. I'm so pleased you liked this.

[artconserv]

Thank you so much for this lovely story. You handled the subject in a beautifully subtle way. I liked how you paced the story--slowly and almost in a pastoral way--but it kept me riveted the entire time. Your characterizations were very sensitively done, too.

I enjoyed this very, very much and hope you will consider doing more like this. Wonderful, beautiful story. Thank you so much. :-)

Sincerely,
Lorraine

just started this

[iwantthatcoat]

Just started reading this and i am already struck by how beautiful and poingant it is. Thank you.