gayalondiel_bak | Fic: Sherlock: WWJ: Rising Waters: Epilogue: Married Ones

Fandom/’Verse: Holmes/Sherlock (BBC)
Challenge:

watsons_woes July prompts challenge amnesty
Series: Rising Waters
Title: Epilogue: Married Ones
Character: Mrs Hudson
Length: Drabble
Rating: PG
Warnings: Series: character death
Author's Notes: Amnesty Prompt 10: Alpha/Omega.

Disclaimer: The Holmes characters fall in the public domain: This version falls under the creative control of Messers Moffatt and Gatiss, and the BBC. No ownership is implied or inferred. This is done for love only.

Summary: Mrs Hudson clears 221B for the new tenants.

The violin and the cane were the last things to go. She had kept them for months, long after clearing out everything else, but now needs must. Cleaning had been somewhat traumatic what with the severed head rotting in the fridge and the dust that had gathered long before Sherlock and John were fished, bleeding, dying, from the pool.

The violin she had kept on the sofa where Sherlock had left it, cleaning around it until the last minute. The cane she had picked up in a moment of distraction from behind the door and then placed reverently in John’s chair, when he had once used it to strike himself and shouted a curse at his infirmity.

What would she not have given to hear that aggravated shout, the tell of a limp after a long night, the tuneless scratching of a violin at three o’clock in the morning. But the days turned, then weeks and months, and finally the flat was let. She collected the items and withdrew them to her own rooms, unwilling to let them go.

She left the room bare for her own married ones, Seb and Jim, to begin their new life at Baker Street.