221B: Old School Ties

[marysutherland]

BBC Sherlock

Rating 12 (implied violence)

Spoilers: for The Reichenbach Fall

Mycroft had to admit that Kitty Riley had a certain rat-like cunning. She could say anything about Sherlock's past, of course, now he was dead, but it had been ingenious to bribe someone to obtain an old school report.  What she'd found was certainly lurid enough for the red

Comments

[thesmallhobbit]

Great twist - and those comments do make more sense for Holmes major.

[marysutherland]

In some ways the brothers are so similar - it's just Mycroft has developed a more polished facade over the years.

Re: 221B: Old School Ties

[disassembly_rsn]

*Very* good. That would be the kind of skimpy research/taking out of context that would *really* come back to bite someone.

The major/minor difference sounds very plausible. Those who wrote it up never expected it to be taken out of context, and in context it's obvious who it refers to.

Re: 221B: Old School Ties

[marysutherland]

Kitty likes sensation: I suspect she didn't want to investigate Rich Brook's story too closely, in case it fell apart and she didn't get her front-page story. So I presume she'd be so desperate to dig out dirt on Sherlock that "minor" details wouldn't bother her.

[marysutherland]

I don't often write evil!Mycroft, but frankly Kitty Riley probably deserves it. (Though I still want to write one where she gets her comeuppance from Mrs Hudson).

[kalypso_v]

Oh good! I'd been wondering how you were, and this is a very happy indication! Still crowing over the mistakes of others in Latin...

[marysutherland]

Been very busy with professional writing (on dodgy medieval priests, among other topics) and several long fics that have got bogged down. But I couldn't resist a quick bit of Mycroft being sneaky.

[zauzat]

a lovely little story, and a clever idea!

[marysutherland]

Glad you enjoyed it!