Fic Rec: My Best Friend Margaret
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221b_recsTitle: My Best Friend Margaret
Author: bubblesbythebeach
Pairing: Mrs. Hudson/Margaret
Length: 1,200 words
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Cigarette ash falling on the window sill. Toes curling on the upholstery, a knee drawn up next to an ear, vee of legs stretched open. The lining of her dress falling between, and hot sunlight on the back of her neck.
Maggie’s wrist rolls away from her mouth, dropping the cigarette into a glass.
“I’ll do your lips,” she says.
Reccer's comments: At time of posting it’s the last day of Femslash February 2017. So I thought I’d rec a fic that’s stayed with me from last February. If you recall, Mrs. Hudson mentions her best friend and bridesmaid Margaret to Sherlock on the morning of John and Mary’s wedding. And here the author takes that parallel and that lightly-sketched character, and produces a beautifully-written portrait of Margaret—and the young Mrs. Hudson too. As well as the well-rounded characters, I so admire the use of description in this fic—how visual the story is. You feel you’re right there in the room with the characters.
The fic takes place just immediately before Mrs. Hudson’s wedding—when she’s still Martha Sissons. Margaret is helping Martha to get ready and we see the physical and emotional closeness between the two women. We also get to dip into what they're feeling. Martha is nervous but excited, and sure about getting married. But deep inside her, Margaret’s heart is breaking. On the outside she seems a brash, confident, outspoken young woman—Martha thinks of her as a ‘haughty know-it-all’—but in three years she hasn’t managed to tell her friend how she feels and she's aware now it’s almost too late.
The story ends at a point where Margaret might be about to speak up. We know how things end for Mrs. Hudson and her friend, but you can’t help but hope that this time the story might just take a different route.
Author: bubblesbythebeach
Pairing: Mrs. Hudson/Margaret
Length: 1,200 words
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Cigarette ash falling on the window sill. Toes curling on the upholstery, a knee drawn up next to an ear, vee of legs stretched open. The lining of her dress falling between, and hot sunlight on the back of her neck.
Maggie’s wrist rolls away from her mouth, dropping the cigarette into a glass.
“I’ll do your lips,” she says.
Reccer's comments: At time of posting it’s the last day of Femslash February 2017. So I thought I’d rec a fic that’s stayed with me from last February. If you recall, Mrs. Hudson mentions her best friend and bridesmaid Margaret to Sherlock on the morning of John and Mary’s wedding. And here the author takes that parallel and that lightly-sketched character, and produces a beautifully-written portrait of Margaret—and the young Mrs. Hudson too. As well as the well-rounded characters, I so admire the use of description in this fic—how visual the story is. You feel you’re right there in the room with the characters.
The fic takes place just immediately before Mrs. Hudson’s wedding—when she’s still Martha Sissons. Margaret is helping Martha to get ready and we see the physical and emotional closeness between the two women. We also get to dip into what they're feeling. Martha is nervous but excited, and sure about getting married. But deep inside her, Margaret’s heart is breaking. On the outside she seems a brash, confident, outspoken young woman—Martha thinks of her as a ‘haughty know-it-all’—but in three years she hasn’t managed to tell her friend how she feels and she's aware now it’s almost too late.
The story ends at a point where Margaret might be about to speak up. We know how things end for Mrs. Hudson and her friend, but you can’t help but hope that this time the story might just take a different route.
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