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ficklepig.livejournal.comTitle: And Let the Well Run Dry
Author: holyfant
Pairing: Mary Morstan/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 4920
Rating: teen and up
Warnings: character death
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Mycroft is wrong. It doesn't even take six months. (A loose retelling of the Orpheus & Eurydice myth.)
Reccer's comments: A canon divergence in which Sherlock does not return from the undercover mission to Serbia at the end of HLV. John plays Orpheus to Sherlock's Eurydice.
The author handles the subject matter and the fusion with myth sensitively and without excessive sentiment. Readers who know the truth are offered the terrible gift of identification with the protagonist as he comes to the same understanding.
Eerie, otherworldly, and irretrievably sad, this story does real justice to the original tale.
Brief gory description of fatal injuries.
Author: holyfant
Pairing: Mary Morstan/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 4920
Rating: teen and up
Warnings: character death
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Mycroft is wrong. It doesn't even take six months. (A loose retelling of the Orpheus & Eurydice myth.)
Reccer's comments: A canon divergence in which Sherlock does not return from the undercover mission to Serbia at the end of HLV. John plays Orpheus to Sherlock's Eurydice.
The author handles the subject matter and the fusion with myth sensitively and without excessive sentiment. Readers who know the truth are offered the terrible gift of identification with the protagonist as he comes to the same understanding.
Eerie, otherworldly, and irretrievably sad, this story does real justice to the original tale.
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