Fic Rec: A World More Full of Weeping
Title: A World More Full of Weeping
Author: Eva
Pairing: Greg Lestrade/Mycroft Holmes
Length: 24,219 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: At the AO3, the author "chose not to use warnings," but I didn't read anything to warn for.
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: Lestrade fulfills his Fae Family's Marriage Debt and gets engaged to Mycroft Holmes, solving one Family's problem--only to gain a whole slew of new ones.
Reccer's comments: Greg and Mycroft are my second most-favorite pairing in the BBC Sherlock world, even though I don't believe the actors have ever shared a scene with each other. Thank goodness Greg mentions Mycroft in Baskerville; I'm sure fans of that pairing have, like me, created years of interactions between them based on that one throw-away line.
Eva, however, has created an alternate universe of magical and half-magical creatures who share blood ties and familial obligations, a world full of unseen dangers and surprising turns. Her Greg, full of curiosity and kindness and grief, pulls us along with him as he maneuvers his way through his Family's and then Mycroft's machinations. But that makes his experience sound harsher than it is; though the story's ending is ambiguous, I found it hopeful.
I really, really liked this Greg, and to my surprise, I ended up liking Mycroft quite a bit, at first despite his Machiavellian ways and then because of them. And I loved the world Eva created with its complex web of responsibilities and accountability; I found it simultaneously beautiful and harrowing.
Not all journeys end in lovers meetings, but Greg's journey hasn't ended when the story closes and I have hope for him.
Author: Eva
Pairing: Greg Lestrade/Mycroft Holmes
Length: 24,219 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: At the AO3, the author "chose not to use warnings," but I didn't read anything to warn for.
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: Lestrade fulfills his Fae Family's Marriage Debt and gets engaged to Mycroft Holmes, solving one Family's problem--only to gain a whole slew of new ones.
Reccer's comments: Greg and Mycroft are my second most-favorite pairing in the BBC Sherlock world, even though I don't believe the actors have ever shared a scene with each other. Thank goodness Greg mentions Mycroft in Baskerville; I'm sure fans of that pairing have, like me, created years of interactions between them based on that one throw-away line.
Eva, however, has created an alternate universe of magical and half-magical creatures who share blood ties and familial obligations, a world full of unseen dangers and surprising turns. Her Greg, full of curiosity and kindness and grief, pulls us along with him as he maneuvers his way through his Family's and then Mycroft's machinations. But that makes his experience sound harsher than it is; though the story's ending is ambiguous, I found it hopeful.
I really, really liked this Greg, and to my surprise, I ended up liking Mycroft quite a bit, at first despite his Machiavellian ways and then because of them. And I loved the world Eva created with its complex web of responsibilities and accountability; I found it simultaneously beautiful and harrowing.
Not all journeys end in lovers meetings, but Greg's journey hasn't ended when the story closes and I have hope for him.