Chapter Text
can be listened to
Length: 9:30
Size: 8.69 MB
Reader's Notes:
This is the second part of the main Ava Watson story arc, as told from Sherlock’s point of view. The first part was “Rocks of Salvation”, which you hopefully either read or listened to before starting this.
The journey continues to be compelling, as KeelieThompson1 continues the tale with humor, drama, angst, and love – always love. This fic has some of the most memorable dramatic peaks of anything I’ve read in this fandom.
It starts with a prologue, set seven months in the future, which, fair warning, is chock full of angst and melodrama. Sherlock is Not In A Good Place, emotionally. Then, with the next chapter, it goes back in time to just after the end of “Rocks of Salvation” and this story tells the tale of how things went from there, to the catastrophic events of the prologue. The third part of the story arc then continues with “Crush it ‘till the Petals Fall”, which deals with the aftermath.
It doesn’t hurt to re-iterate warnings for this chapter: drama, angst, self-harm
Many thanks to KeelieThompson1 for writing this compelling story and giving me permission to create a podfic of it.
We also continue to be lucky enough to have sw70 doing the Beta work on this (and again, she has not read the story so it’s all new to her!). Just close your eyes on parts of it, you'll be fine.
Short musical interludes are from “Into Dust” by Mazzy Star.