Mycroft Holmes
For this man, the years he spent watching John Watson and Sherlock Holmes soldier on after the fall made his heart ache. There was a time he used to think the man,John, was a chameleon, the making or the breaking of his younger brother. And he was proven right, John Watson could be so ordinary that it would be easy to dismiss him among the crowded street, along with the masses and then he had smoothen the rough edges of Sherlock's, made him a good man, soothed the pain of being too smart and too different, love his brother in everysense.
And that made John his brother's downfall. The months Sherlock had spent on the hospital by John's bedside talking endless, from when they met up to before his brother made his fall. He thinks that the reason behind Sherlock's endless storytelling of how they had met was for the sake of John not forgetting, what are the chances afterall for the dear doctor to forget everything upon waking up?
for the dear doctor to remember the past where he had love Jim Moriarty and not the present where his heart is with Sherlock Holmes?
And when John Watson had slowly stop spending time outside baker street, he should have noticed that there would always be crack on his fortress, that there would always be a blindspot and this had caused him greatly, because when John Watson disappeared he heard his brother's heart break into even smaller pieces.
Greg Lestrade
He knew from the moment when the bombings started that John Watson had a hidden depth to him, the doctor, he realized only then kept so many secrets and wore so many masks that it was impossible to see what was truly on his mind. And that in his mind made John Watson a force to be reckoned with, the man who claimed to be clever was so much more, he was also a genius.
A falcon that hid its talons.
And that made him look closely on John upon Sherlock's death. On the briefest of moments when John would let down his guard, he'd see the longing and melancholy behind the smile. He had lost a friend and he can not afford to lose one more. He knew that John had a niece, one that made him think of Sherlock's analytica nature and obvious affection for the doctor.
When John had lost both, it was the first time he saw the man cry after too many months of solitude in 221 B, underneath the rain. Since then he took an even closer eye to John, it is here he noticed the various colored paper cranes kept inside two large jars. And a japanese book about paper cranes. Later he learned the meaning behind it and felt like drowning underwater.
John Watson's disappearance made it hard for him and Mycroft but they both moved on. Too tired of pain and regret.
Molly Hooper & Mrs. Hudson
Instrumental as she was for helping Sherlock fake his death, she was still an observer, a side character in the story between Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. The knowledge that Sherlock was actually alive ate her, with John slowly adapting Sherlock's quirks of experimenting. How she wished to tell John the truth but she knew of what was at stake and this made her endure it. Wishing for the day when everything comes to light, when the two lovers could be reunited comes.
Because as little as she knew of the man behind Doctor John Watson, she considers them both a friend.
As for our dear landlady Mrs. Hudson, who is a second mother for Sherlock and John and perhaps Blanca too, the loss of her children made her heart ache. Sherlock who understands too little of emotions, John who carried too much in his shoulder and Little Blanca who is scared and understands little of the world made Baker Street lively, she likes to think that they were her children, God knows they need a maternal figure to guide them.
She only knew from her old age that with loss comes a gain and she could only hope that this would outweigh and cease the pain in her heart.
When everyone had finally move on it is when the miracle they've been waiting for arrives. They along with the rest of the world could only watch with baited breath as the world only consulting detective faces the worlds only gentleman thief.
A/N: the last and final part of the series is entitled "I Chase After Your Shadows In The Darkness". Thank you for reading up until now :)