Songs of Spring

[w_a_i_d]

My dear Watson,

It has now been ten days.  I hope your sojourn in town has proved refreshing.  I have known where you are for most  of that time, of course - it needed no very stringent inquiries to establish  you had taken the London train; there are many hotels, but only four you know well, and as I believe you to require familiar, yet

Comments

[innie_darling]

A love letter and an unqualified apology? Lovely.

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you!

I admit, I don't know exactly what Holmes did to prompt all this, but it was definitely crappy.

[anonymous]

Oh my goodness! This is so lovely! I just can't think of another way to describe it :)

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you!

[snarryfool]

There's something to be said for a relationship that after thirty years retains enough passion to induce one party to storm out and stay in a hotel for days. Speaking here as someone in a quite happy long-term thing that might delicately be called high-conflict.

[w_a_i_d]

Aww. I'm rather terrified of conflict myself, but I admire the passion!

I sort of had in the back of my mind a message that my godfather (in his mid sixties) sent while away from home to his wife via Facebook -- except worked out how to DO Facebook yet, so he actually just posted it to his wall. And it was amazingly sweet, saying, among other general routine things: "I'm lonely here -- I need you," and I was rather struck that it was still possible for a couple to have that sort of yearning towards each other, when briefly separated, after thirty years.

[ingridmatthews]

Disgraceful schmoop? NAY, AWESOME SCHMOOP!

I still cuddle this fic like a basket of cookies, hot cocoa and 100-proof rum.

[w_a_i_d]

You are clearly a woman after my own heart *offers swig of rum from hipflask.*

[cordelia_v]

Lovely. You manage to create something schmoopy here that is absolutely Holmes' voice and utterly in character---quite an accomplishment.

Oh, and it just melted me. Thank you.

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you! It was rather fun to write, also I am pleased to give the poor lonely "schmoop" tag some use after all the woe and abuse and pain I normally come up with...