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[eglantine_br]

Title: A Port in Extremity
Author Eglantine_br

Extremities Challenge

He did not think Archie had heard. When Horatio lifted him, (so horribly light in his arms, bones and stretched skin burning with fever,) Archie had swooned. His head had fallen back against Horatio’s jacketed arm. Horatio could see the blue vessels beneath the skin, (dirty and

Comments

[anteros_lmc]

Oh Archie...I can see it all so clearly and it hurts so much. You bring it so close, and make it so real and present.

He knew this hand as well as his own, knew the small fine scars, the creases, the exact and lovely placement of the blue vessels of the wrist.
That's beautiful. I've always thought that JB does indeed have lovely hands...

[nodbear]

That frightening time of waiting and the terrors of fever - vividly evoked as ever.

Poor Archie

I think of our boys and wonder what fearful times they went through as well

[emeraldarrows]

Lovely and heartbreaking.

[mylodon]

Here he was small and ill, but undeniably real. Found, lost, and found again,

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

[esmerelda_t]

Wonderfully descriptive fic as always.