Absolutely heartbreaking and wonderful! There can be no Sherlock Holmes without his Dr. Watson and no Dr. Watson without his Sherlock Holmes. Very sad but true... Great story!

Oh wow. That was so well done. Thank you for sharing.

beautiful. B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! That was so well written. Congratulations because that was just... Wow.

I usually avoid major character death; but I saw the gorgeous illustration that was made for this story, and I just had to read it. Damn, is it beautiful! I am seriously crying, and tears don't come easily for me. I swear if I'm ever in a situation where I have to cry on command, I'm just going to think of this story.

That's the way they would have wanted it. John had to live without Sherlock once, he wouldn't want to do it again.

well, ouch. That was amazing, my feels will need a lot of comfort food to recover, beautifully written!

Oh my! That was just pure excellence! I'm soooo glad readers chose to give a death fic a read when too many seem to avoid them. This was beautiful...and sad too, but mostly beautiful.

BRAVA!

I'm on a spree, reading all your fics. And this one. Oh, gosh. Oh, my god.

I am actually in tears. This was so tragically perfect and it made me cry.

On the one hand, I'm so pleased that I'm not the only one who enjoys character studies and messing about with Lestrade's POV.

And on the other, THEY DIED IN EACH OTHERS ARMS

I AM NEVER GOING TO RECOVER FROM THIS

fuck, sorry if I'm going overboard but seriously. wonderful.

I am at a loss for words...

Oh, that's really sad. But I'm glad they had 25 years, they never left Baker St & they went out together. And I'm glad Sally was promoted to DI. Very nice!

This was so beautiful, and so sad... really well written, and totally heart breaking :'( i need to go and recover now...

:'( am in floods of tears this is so sad! I'm glad that they at least died together and that Lestrade got to tell their story, wow, excellent writing! Nice one!

:D

I cried. I'm stil crying... This was amazing..

Oh my heart. This is gorgeous and heart-breaking and all sorts of touching. I think you write Lestrade very well, and everything here is beautiful and perfect. Very well-written.

I just want to say I'm sorry for your loss. You have my condolences.

I would probably never have found this if it wasn't for khorazir's beautiful artwork. I don't know which is more heartbreaking - the story or the picture, but they're both tragically beautiful. I don't understand why it's always a comfort to read deathfic where the boys die together, but somehow it always is. I love this story.