Fic - I'll Get By - John/Sherlock - PG-13

[lotherington]

Title: I'll Get By
Author: lotherington
’Verse: Long Ago and Far Away
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters/Pairing: John/Sherlock
Summary: WWII AU. Easter, 1944. Sherlock runs into a ghost from his past at Easter lunch.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mild homophobia
Word Count: ~2,400
Notes: The title is from I'll Get By.

Comments

[anonymous]

Everything you write is perfection.

[scipia]

This was wonderful. This 'verse is amazing and the fluff at the end was beautiful.

[raina_at]

Who needs Victor Trevor when you've got John Watson :-) Mycroft is a berk, and John is wonderful, as usual. Lucky, lucky Sherlock :-)

[laurab1]

Oh! I'm happy Sherlock has John, now :)

[anonymous]

I do hope we will see more in this verse. I miss it greatly.

However, this story just didn't ring very true to me in comparison to the others.

You've got super wobbie sherlock with a super wobbie past and it just ruined it for me.

Frankly, Ifeel more for victor here. Sherlock is complety unnecessarialy cruel towards a man that fell out of love. I wanted to slap sherlock for his behaviour.

John is smart enough that while he should have been angry at Mycroft he should have told sherlock that people fall out of love, or are afraid of it. And holding onto such vicious hatre for victor is childish, idiotic and cruel.

Left a bad taste in my mouth and the desire to "strangle" sherlock for being such an ass to victor...a man that did nothing to deserve that behaviour.

[lotherington]

Hello! Thank you very much for your comment - I've replied in much greater detail over at my tumblr, if you're interested in seeing the reasoning behind the points that you've expressed concern about here. :)

[anonymous]

(firstly, please excuse any major typos. I'm using a new voice typing program to 'type' this and many kinks to work out.)

Thank you for leading me your comment. Sorry I am anon as I've no public LJ and no tumblr.

I still, thoughfeel the same way.

I understand the historic meaning and the research you did. I am very inpressed by this.

However, I still feel that Sherlock's behaviour here was far too...'off' from the rest of the story and that while Sherlock feels this way...and his feelings are valid to him it's an injustice to Victor. Sherlock's "simple" moving of place settings and his vile comment to Victor were pointed, calculated and designed to hurt at the most vulnerable--but that's how I read it.

You state that "Sherlock, being upper-middle class/pushing upper class, and because he’s Sherlock, expresses emotion much more freely than John does, as his social position is much more secure, owing both to his family’s money and his status as an ‘eccentric...he was still born into the same Edwardian culture of touch and

[lotherington]

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you - RL is knocking me for six at the minute! Don't worry about being anon either - I don't mind