Poirot Book Verse - Healing

[luthienberen]

Title: Healing
Fandom: Agatha Christie: Poirot books: Murder on the Orient Express
Rating: G
Notes: As the Orient Express finally moves off after the incredible events during her imprisonment in the snow, Doctor Constantine reflects on his part in the affair.

Written for 100fandoms Prompt 018 Fix
and
for 100words Prompt #134 - Shakespeare VI,
“This above all: to thine own self be true
And it must follow, as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

[On A03]


Doctor Constantine stared at the snow flashing by under the winter sun. Ah! So many lives ruined, so much grief and agony.

All his life he had striven to do the opposite of men like Ratchett: to heal the hurts of others, to seek a cure to illnesses, or alternatively a peaceful end.

Thus he was glad to be true to his mantra of healing, to fix the wrong committed against these stalwart people. Now perhaps they could mend, begin their lives afresh. Maybe, in time, they would find a peace of sorts.

He was eternally grateful to M. Poirot.

Comments

[misbegotten]

I haven't read Christie in ages. Thanks for this little glimpse into the 'verse.

[luthienberen]

Thank you Misbegotten! :) Murder on the Orient Express was the first Christie book I read properly and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Also, nice icon!

[smallhobbit]

Nice to see Poirot making an appearance - if only after his actions.

[luthienberen]

Thanks smallhobbit! Poirot has a way of popping up even when not present in the flesh :D

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I love Doctor Constantine. It was the Italian (+ everybody else!), of course!

[luthienberen]

I love his enthusiasm in the book, I was laughing each time he declared a new suspect. It's great to meet another person who loves Doctor Constantine!