Fic Rec: So Keen a Sympathy

[venusinthenight]

Title: So Keen a Sympathy (also on LJ)
Author: sanguinity
Pairings: Mary Morstan/Kate Whitney, John Watson/Mary Morstan, implied Holmes/Watson
Length: 5059
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No standard warnings apply
Verse: ACD Canon

Author's Summary: “I should have gone with you,” Kate said, and I looked up to find her watching me. “We should have gone away and gotten that little house together.”

Reccer's Comments: This was the present I received for the most recent Holmestice.

Some time ago I'd read "The Man with the Twisted Lip", in which Kate Whitney appears. Since then I'd wondered about her past relationship with Mary (or at least I have always assumed that Mary is Watson's wife in the story), if it'd possibly gone further than a friendship. I'd prompted for something in this regard for this past Holmestice, and sanguinity delivered with a beautiful story.

I adore this little slice of domesticity, here. And there is SO. MUCH. LOVE. AND UNDERSTANDING. And there's a happy ending for all concerned.

Author has added the following tags to AO3, which I'm attaching here as content notes: Period-typical heteropatriarchy, period-typical classism, drug use, infidelity

[Mods, may I have a character tag for Kate Whitney? And a pairing tag for her and Mary Morstan?]

Comments

[ficklepig.livejournal.com]

I really liked this!