Fic: Watson's Watch

[garonne]

Title: Watson's Watch
Author: Garonne
Words: 3600
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Holmes/Watson, Mary/Watson
Note: Characterisation à la Guy Ritchie
Summary: Holmes and Mary understand more of Watson's secret fears than he himself. Angst all round.

Comments

[shewolf_luna]

This is wonderful and oh so painful. Although the line "Fortunately for her glass of wine and my white shirt-front, Watson returned at that moment" made me giggle!

[garonne]

Thanks! I thought it needed some light-hearted moments to temper the angst... :)

[lunabunni]

Ouch...my heart. Brilliantly done.

[garonne]

Thank you!

[sunsetsnowfall]

*sobs* beautifully done! You have the characterisations perfectly, especially; I lit my foulest smelling cigar and blew the smoke in her direction. that's Holmes down to a T! <3

[garonne]

Thanks, I'm very glad to hear it. I was rather fond of that particular line - I'm glad you noticed it ;)

[tinzelda]

Oh, my heart is breaking! This was lovely, if painful. I'm so pleased that you decided to write something inspired by the movie, and you did it so well!

I think this story captured why I've haven't been inspired to write by the sequel - there seems to be no way to write a happy ending (except maybe Holmes and Mary share Watson as you hint, which OK, I'm not totally against, but that would have to be carefully done to make me truly believe it, and I'm not convinced that would be a completely happy solution. sorry for the ramble). But since we can't have that, we can at least have this wonderful, bittersweet story. I was especially impressed that you showed Watson's state of mind - how conflicted he is, how much he really does care for both Mary and Holmes - without writing from his point of view. I always like seeing a bit of Watson's darker side - the gambling and his family issues, and you hint at that very effectively.

In short, you are brilliant, as always! Thanks for yet another a great (*sobs*) read.

[garonne]

:-) I'm so happy to hear you liked this - I was hoping you would! I love your RDJ Holmes. I was rather nervous about trying my own. Sorry for breaking your heart, though... (I had to go off and read a load of fluff after writing this ;) )

It's true that it's hard to see a way around Watson's marriage. I really didn't set out to write such a miserable fic, but - well, there's no getting around what happens in AGOS. What they call "polyamour" (e.g. Watson being shared and everyone being perfectly happy about it) is very popular as a topic among French journalists at the moment, for some reason, but I certainly couldn't pull that off convincingly in a fic.

Anyway, thank you!

[jenlee1]

Oh, my... this is absolutely lovely. Bittersweet and wonderful and it hurts, in just the way it should.

Love how very perceptive your Mary is, and Watson’s honest confusion about what he wants. And Holmes... poor Holmes, who can’t quite hide his bitterness at the entire thing - try as he might, for Watson’s sake.

There are too many spot-on, lovely lines here to quote them all, but I do very much enjoy your writing style and character voices. Your Holmes, in particular, is just as I would imagine ;)

Just… very, very nicely done. Thanks so much for a lovely read. <3

*mems*

[garonne]

Thank you, I'm very glad you liked it. I'm particularly pleased you liked my Mary, because I'm rather a fan of hers, despite being an inveterate slasher - a difficult balancing act! :-) I'm glad to hear it seems to have worked all right.