Fic: Rest: G

[spacemutineer]

Title: Rest
Form: 221B
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: G
Warnings/Content: alcohol
Summary: After returning from his hiatus and death itself, Holmes settles in and finds what he had been missing.

I slept for an age. I had forgotten what it felt like to truly sleep, to relax and drift away without mortal tension gnawing at the back of one's mind. Similarly, I had forgotten what being drunk felt like, being well and truly inebriated with a companion long-lost, our inhibitions lowered and our camaraderie as easy as it ever was. Did he know how much I had missed him? Could he tell? In the end, it was unimportant. He had forgiven me. I knew he would and equally I knew he should not. However necessary, some wounds are too deep to ever fully heal. I have been acquainted with a surgeon and an injured man long enough to know that. Patients and friendships can easily perish under such powerful lingering strain.

But my Watson forgave me as I knew he would, and we drank and laughed and I fell asleep in my chair beside him. I left my name and life behind never expecting I would survive to return to them, yet here they were waiting as if I had never left. My friend led me to my own bed in my own home in my own city where I slept that night and all the following day. For the first time in three long years I rested, soul and body.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

This paints a lovely picture!

[scfrankles]

How lovely to see you posting again, and particularly to see you posting here in Holmes Minor ^_^

Echoing Small Hobbit - this is a wonderful portrait of Holmes' return. I'm very taken with your final sentence. And with:

I had forgotten what being drunk felt like, being well and truly inebriated with a companion long-lost, our inhibitions lowered and our camaraderie as easy as it ever was

and

I left my name and life behind never expecting I would survive to return to them, yet here they were waiting as if I had never left. My friend led me to my own bed in my own home in my own city where I slept that night and all the following day.

[spacemutineer]

Ah, thank you so much!

[spacemutineer]

I'm happy to be posting again too. It's been too long. And Holmes Minor is a necessity -- I always tend to favor short form, and you've made such a perfect little home for tidbits. :)

I can never resist an opportunity to get Holmes a little (or a lot) drunk. It's just too much fun. Thank you!