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donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote2016-07-12 11:54 pm

The Frozen Sea Within

Title: The Frozen Sea Within
Fandom/Warning/Rating:
Sherlock Holmes (ACD canon), DEPRESSING FIC WARNING, rated G
Word Count: 100 words

Summary:
 They finally found him.
Author's Note: Written for [livejournal.com profile] watsons_woes JWP#12. Title is from a Kafka quote.

Lestrade never thought he'd be thankful of the cold, but he'd seen the bodies pulled from the water many times before and some had bloated and swelled to the point they looked barely human.

At least Doctor Watson had been spared that.

They'd never have located him if Holmes hadn't tricked Edwards into confessing. They'd searched the river when Watson first disappeared, but not thoroughly enough to find a body hidden in its undergrowth, weighed down with stones.

"It's good we finally found him," Lestrade said to Holmes, breaking the awful silence between them.

"There is nothing good about this."