One Watson's As Good As Another (Chapter 4)
Chapter four of a clean-up of a story I wrote for this shkinkmeme, prompt:
During the Hiatus, Mary and Watson do conceive a child. However, instead of Mary dying in childbirth, it is Watson who dies while Holmes is away.
Mary is left widowed, with their small child to raise. Holmes discovers this upon his return to London and, though devastated by Watson's ( Read more... )
During the Hiatus, Mary and Watson do conceive a child. However, instead of Mary dying in childbirth, it is Watson who dies while Holmes is away.
Mary is left widowed, with their small child to raise. Holmes discovers this upon his return to London and, though devastated by Watson's ( Read more... )
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I'm debating about just slamming it up on AO3, but I don't know for sure.
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I'll admit I did leave Holmes very vague -- I think some of it was because I was trying to follow canon (in which Holmes wanders in and out of 221B, Watson naps and eats and Mrs. Hudson cooks), but add a little more spunk. If I had more druthers, I'd probably have written the original idea in my head in which Holmes is asexual, the marriage is for protection and Mary and Holmes become great friends.
And in the end, similar to the Ritchie!Movies, she falls in love and marries someone else after Holmes (grudgingly) divorces her and retires to Sussex.
But I never did. People liked the Mary/Holmes pairing more. Eh, maybe someday. When I'm not knitting like mad for presents.
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