Fic: A Reliable Man. Part Eight: Framed.

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Summary:  Lestrade has been arrested and the evidence against him appears overwhelming.  Nobody likes a bent copper....

Rating: PG - mild language

Type: Gen

Word Count: 7500

This is part of a series of connected stories, the others are here.

Thanks again to elfbert  for general encouragement and long chats about all sorts of things.

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Comments

[alai5]

I really like it! this is the best fiction i read in ages and hope you continue.
I added you and i hope you don't mind.

[randomly_rusted]

I'm very happy you liked it! Friending me is fine, it's a fic journal so the best way to see stuff.

[red_chapel]

I just discovered this series -- loved it all and have to know: Is there more?

[randomly_rusted]

part 9 is on the go but is proving difficult. It is going to be a while longer yet but it is coming.

Yay for action!

[weefreethings]

For 7500 words, this was a remarkably quick read! Great mix of drama and action, especially the scene where Lestrade has to fight off the thugs and keep them off the bomb at the end. You've done a great job showing that, although he's no James Bond, he's well-trained, healthy, and most of all, determined. And best of all, Mycroft got to see some of it. Mycroft's growing affection for Lestrade is all the more tragic for being so understated. How much of Lestrade's decision to remain in prison, disgraced and at the mercy of the “cowboys” is based on trust in Mycroft and how much is just plain duty? Poor Mycroft, this must be driving him nuts! :( I suppose it serves him right, but still

Re: Yay for action!

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Mycroft knows what he wants, he just has (for once) no idea how to get it. He is thinking hard about it though...

At that particular moment Lestrade would have been anyone's for a really good meal but he's not always quite so easily managed!

[nathcoelho]

I lost cont how many times i said: Poor Lestrade
but well
poor him!
Glad that he got out of that in one piece!