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weefreethings

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Apr 21, 2011 12:07

Title: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Summary: When Lestrade breaks off his relationship with Sherlock, Mycroft seizes the opportunity to collect Lestrade for himself. As the most dangerous man in Britain, he can take care of Lestrade and protect him. He just can't understand why Lestrade seems so subdued and unhappy.
Rating: PG-13
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sherlock (bbc), john watson, mycroft holmes, di lestrade, fan-fiction

Comments 17

randomly_rusted April 25 2011, 09:02:46 UTC

It is a definite problem with Mycroft/Lestrade... the power imbalance.

The way to escape is good, but Blackmail rather, and some of it useful against me is better. Running away isn't power.

weefreethings April 25 2011, 17:26:24 UTC

Thanks for commenting ( ... )

randomly_rusted April 25 2011, 20:30:48 UTC

He definitely has to have some kind of structure to work in and governors upon him. Not just his own nature. I have been wondering if Sherlock isn't one of his shackles... His concern has to have been noted ( ... )

weefreethings April 26 2011, 02:59:47 UTC

Definitely makes sense for Mycroft to have money, partly to explain the suit, and to partly to give him even more flexibility to break rules.

ACD's Mycroft was probably too lazy to even spend 450 quid/year. Hard to write stories about a guy like that! Just love the one scene in the Final Problem where Mycroft masquerades as a cabbie to get Watson away from Moriarty. It must have taken him years to recover from that exertion.

I've just assumed all of Mycroft's tech is portable, as it so often is these days. But he sure does _not_ want people looking at it. Why does a guy with a cell phone use a pocket watch to tell time, or a notebook to record addresses (which he would have memorized anyway)? And then he goes and texts them nasty messages... >.<

In my (Crossroads) fic, Mycroft really doesn't want people to see his phone or his computer because they are so cool that even his bosses covet them. Maybe he's just being dramatic. Oh, wait! He's above all that...

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OP OP OP zions April 27 2011, 05:16:27 UTC

*squeals*
OMG!
You filled my prompt! *is OP of prompt*
I'm exstatic! (Haven't read it yet, just needed to express my utter glee and thanks first!) I loved your Insufficient Clearance - it actually was a sentence from that story which put the idea for my prompt in my (angst-addicted) head. And now you went and filled it! Just how brilliant is that?! Look at your summary alone... so promisingly foreboding! *loves*
*dashes of to read it*

Re: OP OP OP weefreethings April 27 2011, 17:43:24 UTC

If you haven't heard me say so already, it's an amazing prompt. I'm not entirely satisfied with my fill, but your idea got me to try some stuff that I had never done before. There's probably all kinds of ways to approach that prompt. One of the anons was trying to chase down some more fills, but I fear all writers are at the mercy of their muses.