JWP 2019 | Day 18

[thesadchicken]

Title: New Life (or What Reinchenbach Took)
Author: thesadchicken
Rating: G.
Universe: Ritchie!verse, Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (2012).
Characters: Simza Heron, Watson (mentioned), Holmes (mentioned).
Summary: Simza Heron reflects on her life.
Word Count: 212.

Author's note: I love Simza a lot.

Prompt: Also Appearing Tonight - Sherlock Holmes: Spotlight a side character or an OFC; have Holmes and/or Watson appear or be mentioned, but only briefly (less than a paragraph, or a few sentences).

Her legs ached from running and her lungs burned from breathing the cold Swiss air. Her hair whipped her face, the wind making it dance around her head like serpents. She had been running for so long – too long – it was time to stop.

She’d lost so much along the way. The sun would set on a smaller world tonight. And yet as Simza Heron looked back at the roaring falls, she felt light. As if something had been lost – something she did not know if she would miss or not.

Those mighty falls roared on, and Simza stared into the water. Reichenbach had taken so much from her. She thought of her brother, of her friends, of the pile of names and faces and memories that would now for ever belong to the past. She thought of the two Englishmen, of the way they sat close together, the hand of one gently grasping the other. She thought of the doctor’s eyes when he had returned, stunned, to reveal that the water had taken his friend.

The water had taken so much from so many. Tonight Simza would think of all those names and faces and she would smile, and she would drink, and she would be grateful.

A new life awaited.