Fic Rec: The Mourning Woman

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The Mourning Woman by M_Leigh
Length: 2278
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's Summary: "The last time Molly Hooper had a secret to keep, for somebody other than herself, she was fifteen years old." Molly takes care of business, after the fall. Sherlock/John-ish.

Reccer's Comments: A fabulous depiction of Molly's part in Sherlock's 'death'.  I don't think Molly should be a synonym for mouse and neither does the author.  The author wrote a companion piece The Bachelor Stripped Bare by His Shadow, Even that offers John's perspective and is also very good.  Molly's perspective in Mourning Woman is so unique and relatable that it edges out to be the better of the two, but just barely.

Excerpt:
She wasn’t allowed to miss him, not while John missed him, because she knew the way John was missing him wasn’t something she’d ever felt, probably wouldn’t ever feel. It was like somebody’d taken John and taken him out of himself and sent him back out in to the world to stumble around without being able to feel anything anymore. It was like he’d had a stroke and was trying to relearn everything he’d always done naturally, by instinct, without having to think about it.

Comments

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This is a favorite of mine. I recced it when I was driving the Crack-Van for Sherlock. There is a really lovely podfic of it by croissantkatie, http://croissantkatie.dreamwidth.org/724.html