Legacy

[rabidsamfan]

For a moment the resemblance was astonishing, and then the boy grinned and fell into rambunctious conversation with his cousins, becoming only one of the many. If his hair was sandier or his eyes a lighter hazel it hardly mattered in that crowd. But I caught Mrs. Forrester's eye and she turned hastily away. It was only later that she admitted to the adoption – a substitute babe for her daughter's lost child, a substitute mother for a babe whose own had gone reluctant to the grave, and whose father could not keep him.

But they kept the name. John Sherlock.

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

! Really?!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*evil grin* You know what happens when the plotbunnies bite...

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew more about the story context... but this still grabs me. One of these days I'll storm the library for the Holmes-mysteries, to finally reread whatever I can get.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*grin* This one is really fairly out in left field, but the plotbunny nibbled so I wrote it.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

OMG. I get what you're implying on this one - and just - OMG. That's a hit to the gut, in a good way.

Wow.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*grin* Why thank you! I'm pleased it packed a punch.

[dreamflower]

Oh my!! *whoosh*!

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

I... strongly suspect I am missing something on this one. Holmes had a kid? Or... probably missing something. It's still affecting though.

[katie310117.livejournal.com]

So this is...
Watson's secret bastard child who was raised by someone else? I'm not sure I get it.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Not a bastard. Mary's child, but she died in childbirth, and Watson couldn't raise the boy, so he gave him up to one of the Forrester's daughters. (The Forresters being the people Mary was a governess to when they met.)