Man, this fic was like a one-two sucker punch. And I almost feel badly for John, at the very end, except. And poor Helen.
I was in London a few years ago (I think it might have been early 2008), and all of this makes me wish desperately that I'd been into Sanctuary at the time so I could have paid more attention to the "Ripper Walk" we went on! Though it's all very unreal to listen to, since obviously nothing looks the way it did a century and a quarter/half ago.
(You'll also note that I neglected to mention Ashley. I suppose that I am hoping Helen got pregnant on August 30th or just before, that she's about 10 weeks along at the end of the story, and that she hasn't noticed yet because she's been busy and stressed. Which is a stretch, I'll admit, but workable.) Helen Magnus is also a very/rather tall lady, and might not show as much as a woman of standard height for the time would (iirc, they were even shorter than the average female is now).
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Date: 2011-01-22 05:21 pm (UTC)I was in London a few years ago (I think it might have been early 2008), and all of this makes me wish desperately that I'd been into Sanctuary at the time so I could have paid more attention to the "Ripper Walk" we went on! Though it's all very unreal to listen to, since obviously nothing looks the way it did a century and a quarter/half ago.
(You'll also note that I neglected to mention Ashley. I suppose that I am hoping Helen got pregnant on August 30th or just before, that she's about 10 weeks along at the end of the story, and that she hasn't noticed yet because she's been busy and stressed. Which is a stretch, I'll admit, but workable.)
Helen Magnus is also a very/rather tall lady, and might not show as much as a woman of standard height for the time would (iirc, they were even shorter than the average female is now).