Variations on Emptiness

[capt_facepalm]

Title: Variations on Emptiness
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective (retired), Major John H. Watson, RAMC
Summary: 1918. Watson is somewhere in France, Holmes is not
Warning: (none)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 16th 2018 prompt: Musical prompt (Cold by Jorge Méndez)

.oOOo.

Sherlock Holmes returned to Sussex with an unsettled mind.

The war in France was not going well. His brother, without going into details, of course, had said as much, thus confirming information Sherlock Holmes had received from other sources. Unlike so many, he did not have any immediate family serving in the army, but he did have one very good friend there, and that friend tended to value the care of others above his own.

So, alone in his cottage, besieged by wind and rain, the retired detective's mind repeated: Was Watson afraid, was he cold, exhausted? Was he safe?

.oOOo.

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Supplementary Notes: Musical prompts are tricky.

Comments

[gardnerhill]

(whimper)

Poor fellow - he too has family in that conflict.

[capt_facepalm]

Yes, Holmes does, but society would not really understand.
Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Such tough times
Mrs P

Re tricky music prompts...perhaps you could sing something next time?

[capt_facepalm]

Nobody wants that!
Truly!

[bwblack]

Poo Holmes although I always appreciate a worried Holmes when that worry is over Watson.

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I try to write Holmes as glib on the surface but actually quite caring at heart, especially once he gets to know Watson. I write Watson not realising this until much later, as his concern and regard for Holmes has been constant since the earliest days.