[ SECRET POST #2437 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2437 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Initially, I'd probably lock down and go unresponsive, because that's my proven response to major shocks. I'm not sure what way it would go afterwards, but I suspect my main emotion would be confusion/shock rather than anger. Once Holmes explained, I'd have accepted the necessity, so not much anger, but the whole dead-not-dead would just knock me for a loop for a while. I'd have trouble accepting the reality of it.

I've always thought that Watson's relatively quick jump to relief and joy (after the fainting fit where his brain just shut down for a bit while trying to grasp what happened) was because he'd always nursed a hope that there was something he wasn't seeing, some hope that Holmes wasn't dead. Holmes was always fairly tricky, and there was no body. Which, in hindsight, makes those three years in between significantly more painful, if you've ever seen people with missing friends/relatives that they don't know for sure are dead, but it would explain why he could jump so quickly so happiness. He'd been expecting/hoping for the return for some time.