FIC: Crossing - JWP4

[monkeybard]

Crossing
By MonkeyBard
Rating: G
Length: 100
Universe: ACD
Summary: The long road home.
Date: 4 July 2015
JWP #4: The Well-Travelled Watson. "Travel and foreign lands." Use this however it inspires you.

It begins with a train. Crossing borders. Crossing the continent. The constant thrum of steel wheels against steel rails. The hypnotic rhythm a mixed blessing from mountains to coast.

A ferry follows. Crossing the Channel. The relentless slap and swish of salt water against the hull. Lulling. Never quite numbing.

Another train. Crossing from port to station.

A hansom cab crossing the city.

A door. A step across one threshold.

Seventeen stairs that have never looked longer, never felt steeper.

I cross the last threshold into an empty flat. I can no longer call it a home without my friend.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Lovely description. So sad!

[monkeybard]

Thank you.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

It's so heartbreaking to travel that far and have nothing (and no one) waiting for you. Very nice.

[monkeybard]

Few things are worse than an empty house that used to be full. Thank you.

[methylviolet10b]

That's one trip I'm sure Watson wished he'd never had to take. Poor fellow.

[monkeybard]

Indeed. A lonely trip with a lonelier ending.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Heart-wrenching and brilliant!

[monkeybard]

Thanks very much!