Comment on Some Variations of the Verb ‘To Love’

  1. flags_fiend on Chapter 1 Thu 31 Jul 2025 06:48AM UTC

    Lego dragon

    Your opening is so poetically beautiful. Age 14 is too old and yet not old enough - too old to want a holiday by the sea, too old to want to look like it matters, but yet not old enough to know what is truly happening, to fully recognise the hints of looming danger on the horizon.

    Sherlock is definitely a knife - intriguing, dangerous and liable to hurt if not careful. Mycroft's comparison is apt.

    I read the tag saying John believes Sherlock is dead, I hope that means he's not actually dead. But here it's certain John feels the loss as if he is, the struggle to live in that moment with that grief.

    You capture that grief beautifully as John tears things apart. It's probably a good thing he resists the knife as they make other things so easy to tear. I do wonder what Mycroft is upto, sending him food and things, and why he sent him away?

    The last scene - is it real? A memory? A dream? I love that I can't tell, and it seems John can't either. He longs for Sherlock to come back and yet this one seems subtly different, a fantasy or a fairy tale as dead man don't return and he knows that.

    I love the last line 💗

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    1. Snowfilly1 on Chapter 1 Mon 04 Aug 2025 06:25AM UTC

      Thank you so much, and I’m glad you enjoyed it.

      Fourteen is such a weird age isn’t it? Not one thing or another, not quite fitting into any world.

      Yes, the good news is that Sherlock isn’t dead, the bad news is that he faked his own death and let John believe it and in canon and in this, that has ramifications. Nasty ones, mostly, because John believed he was gone wholeheartedly.

      I’m glad the grief came through, and you’re right it’s a damn good job he stayed away from that knife. Bad enough the thought was there.

      I do enjoy writing Mycroft and his schemes, he’s always up to something, even when he’s trying to protect John like here. Master of string pulling that he is!

      I’m so glad that you liked the last bit, and that you couldn’t quite pin down what it was - that was exactly the sort of disconnected, unreal feeling I was aiming for so I’m thrilled that it worked! And isn’t that the oldest warning of fairy tales - be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.

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