Yitzock wrote:

Well, now that the authors have bee revealed, I would like to thank silverblaze for the brilliant story! I don't know you as well as some other members of the forum, and I certainly had no idea you were such a good writer.

Thank you (blushes). You don't know me because I don't visit this forum very often anymore. I used to be a regular last year and the year before, but I kinda left. The secret Santa was so much fun that I came back for this. And the Spesh of course.  

Special thanks to mrshouse for the beautiful fic you wrote for me. Thanks again.

Schmiezi wrote:

Dear NotYourHousekeeperDear, your fic is still being written. I got the promise that it will be finished.

Dear nakahara, I don't know about your fic yet. I hope that your secret santa will contact me anytime soon to tell me what to expect.

I am so very sorry that I cannot give both of you more today.

OK 
It can´t be helped, I guess... 

At one in the morning, on a Saturday night
 
Oh-la-la. I was kidnapped to a wonderful trip by my friends through the weekend and little did I now that such a sweet surprise would wait here for me upon my return. Happy!
 
Thank you so much, Dorothy, that you spent time and effort to create this story for me. I feel so humbled, so lucky and so thankfull, witnessing your kindness. I hope that it wasn´t too big a bother for you and that you enjoyed writing this story too.
 
I loved this story very much, both as a case fic and as a lovely Johnlock tale.
 
At first, let me tell you that I´m impressed how elegantly you dealt with my crazy prompt for the story. I vaguely remembered that I had such mundane things like violin and chemistry in it and I had completely forgotten that I also added such over-the-top items like Westminster Bridge and Elgin Marbles into it. Yet you managed to use every one of these in a very natural, pleasant manner and to build an ingenious, interesting scenes where these prompts were used. None of them stuck out awkwardly and every one added something new to world of your tale. Beautiful, thank you.
 
I loved it how the narration jumped right into a gripping action with Alexander´s jump at the beginning of the fic and how it was impossible to put the story down after that, because it immediatelly roused my curiousity and bound me down to it. Single scenes were wonderfully constructed, painting a vivid atmosphere with a few well chosen words. The case was interesting too and it was nice how a relatively simple suicide / homicide gradually and unexpectedly turned into something more serious and emotional, being a real challenge for Sherlock, for whom emotions are really not his forte. It was also wonderful how seamlessly have you intervowen Johnlock with the case at this part of the story and how you made it important to a solution of the case (which, whimsically, was both Sherlock´s failure and a success at the same time).
 
But the thing that got me the most was your description of Sherlock´s and John´s relationship which you originally put into those early stages when the pair already „did-the-do“ but is not used to an intimate life together yet. I don´t know how you did it, but every little gesture, every frail feeling or a fleeting moment of tenderness between these two was so convincing, so real and so touching that it almost hurt. It was sheer perfection similar to the peerless rose: so enticing to look at, with such a hypnotic scent, but stabbing you right through the heart with her thorns… thankfully, this is the pain that Johnlock readers endure gladly and with abandon.
 
Thank you again, unexpected Santa and thank you, Schmiezi, for organising this chain of nice gifts for me. Have a good night, both of you.

Dorothy83 wrote:

Gosh, I'm so glad you liked it! And thank you so much for your wonderful comment - and additional comment on ao3! You're so lovely!

I had fun writing this. As I said I am not great at casefics but I enjoyed the challenge as it gave the chance to try something new! And your prompts were tricky but in a good way, made my brain work. haha.

again thanks so much for your comment! I feel so undeserving! *mwah*

Believe me, you deserve every bit of it.