Written for the LiveJournal community Watsons_Woes for their July Writing Prompts challenge. The prompt for day 11 was: Ladies' night: Use a female POV.
Historical note: As per The Final Problem, May 3, 1891 is the date Holmes and Watson arrived in Meiringen, with the trip to Reichenbach occurring the following day.
Part of my Spencer-verse (primarily canon with a few details borrowed from the Granada TV series-in this case, I've borrowed the fact that Watson is not married at the time of The Final Problem).
_May 3, 1891_
Spencer haunts the house like a specter, roaming the empty rooms upstairs then winding about my ankles, mewling pitifully as if asking after his absent masters. I scratch his head and offer him extra chicken for dinner and tell him I'm worried too.
I have never seen Mr. Holmes as harried as he was before he and Dr. Watson left for the Continent and I am concerned they will suffer some misadventure abroad. I am certain that Mr. Holmes' odd visitor has something to do with their departure; I did not like the look of him and Spencer hissed at him as he left.
A whole week they've been gone, and there's been no word. That's typical for Mr. Holmes, but Dr. Watson is usually more thoughtful. Given my sense of foreboding and Spencer's unease, I cannot help but think that, at this point, any news could only be bad.
