Sherlock: Certainty

[tartancravat]

Title: Certainty
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sally Donovan, Lestrade, John
Rating: PG
Word count: 1,131
Disclaimer: This is a transformative work of the BBC’s Sherlock, which itself is a transformative work. Not making any money here.
Warnings: Spoilers for The Reichenbach Fall
Notes: Written for the latest round of sherlock_remix, a remix of Regret, by yalublyutebya.

Comments

[solojones]

Ah, I really liked this. I have to admit, I rather hate Sally in the show, but getting inside her head to at least see her conflicted about Sherlock's death is nice. I particularly liked:

This is Sally Donovan, lighting a candle for a dead man.

Lovely evocative image.

[tartancravat]

Sally is pretty easy to hate in the show, but I think it's sort of not her fault. :/ Thanks for reading!

[solojones]

I do really hate Sally, but then I also confess that I'd love to hear a bit more about Sally's reasons for hating Sherlock so much in the show. I always like seeing a nuanced depiction of a character, even one I don't like.

[tartancravat]

Yeah, I wish Sally was more multi-dimensional in the show. It might make her less hateable. :/ I guess that's what fic is for, though.

[i_luv_redheads]

I'm glad you wrote this. I feel like Sally is always portrayed as this evil witch with no morals or something. However, we have to remember that she's a cop. She's trained to be suspicious, on alert at all times. How would you react to this pompous guy showing up at all of your crime scenes, making these wild claims, and then throwing your own mistakes in your face? Would you be hostile? Of course you would! Sally gets the idea in her head (remember Moriarty is a genius too and so can we really fault her all that much for falling into his trap?) that Sherlock is actually NOT all that he says he is and the evidence is all there for her to see. Sally is NOT the only one that falls for it. Lestrade isn't innocent in all of this. It's refreshing to read something that shows that Sally is a HUMAN and that she sees the error of her ways but she is STILL not going to fawn all over the idea of Sherlock because that's not her true character. I think it would be frankly ridiculous to assume that just because she realizes that she's

[tartancravat]

I really like the idea that there's more to Sally's story than we ever see in the show, maybe even more history than just the fact that Sherlock is a dick. She's rather satisfying to write, as a character, because of that.

:D Thanks for reading!

[rachelindeed]

This is quiet, lovely, and realistic. Thanks so much!

[tartancravat]

:D Thanks for reading!

[p_for_polkadots]

I've always liked Sally as a character and this is one of the few stories that (at least in my eyes) do her justice. Well done.

[tartancravat]

She's a pretty interesting character, really. Thank you!

[agentotter]

That was absolutely fantastic. I loved the whole thing, but in particular that scene with the cigarette was really powerful, I thought. And I loved the style you used writing it... I'm not sure if it's just your usual or if you were trying to really write it in Sally's own voice, but I could practically hear the actress reading it aloud to me... I think you really captured her sort of speech patterns and her simple but effective turns of phrase. Really just awesome. A++++++ would read again. ;D

[tartancravat]

This was probably part my normal style and part Sally, I think. Some fics just demand to be written in certain ways.

:D :D :D Thank you!