Great story!

I can't believe I missed this! *facepalm* It was a good thing I checked your profile!

You -must- write for the SH fandom more often. I find both your fics so insightful of the characters, treated with much respect, humor and inteligence they so deserved when done stories for. Tears almost sprang from my eyes when I was reading Watson's letter to Mycroft. You really know how to delve into the characters' depths and find their inner emotions.

Thanks again for another lovely read!

aw . . . sad. and really good.

come now, this installation is crying out for a next chapter!

Surely you would not deny your story the continuation it deserves?

Oh. My. What a heartstopping little drabble. Remembrance, indeed.

And yet, he should have gone (as he eventually did).

It's short, but it got straight to the point and I think was very, very well written. Poor Watson! I always love fics that focuses on Holmes' feelings about Mary's death, and you captured everything here splendidly.

Write on. :D

Aw, that was so sad and sweet... Watson's a solider through it all!

Poignant and wonderfully written. Brava!

Lovely.

The idea that Holmes might think at first that it was Watson who had died had never occurred to me. Very moving, and nicely done.

Oh, goodness.
That is so brave and steady and sturdy and proper...just like Watson himself.
No. Watson would not despair.
Thanks for this!

That was breathtakingly poignant, especially that paragraph depicting Holmes as he received the news. How you could pack so much IC reaction into a few sentences is beyond me, but I bow to your skill with words!

And the “I’ll not see him ruined. Must I return?” speaks louder than anything else about Holmes's mindset at the time - the fact that the Hiatus continued speaks of Watson's. I love how you portrayed the strengths and weaknesses of both here.

And glad to see you do that 221b idea of the watch that you sent me so long ago - I never felt that I could do it justice, and I'm thrilled to see it here!