Series Rec: Time and Weddings by Bold_as_Brass
Series Title: Time and Weddings
Author: Bold_as_Brass
Pairing: Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, incidental Mycroft Holmes/OMC
Length: 29,271 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock (BBC)
Author's summary: The past is always with us, but sometimes life gives us a second chance.
Reccer's comments: Charming, canny, heartbreaking, and hot? Check, check, check, check. I'll risk being fifteen minutes late for work if Bold_as_Brass shows up in my inbox first thing in the morning.
I don't know what this writer does at work, but boy can they edit. Scenes are set up at an easy pace, sensual detail interlocking neatly with background information, light humor and enough tension to keep things ticking along.
This pair of stories explores first times, twice.Minor spoilers follow.
In "The Wedding Present," Mycroft lurks around the edges of the Watsons' reception party and Holmesily manipulates Greg into his bed. Lestrade-POV sex ensues, progresses with a couple of interesting wobbly moments, deftly navigates the intellectual and personal power differential, ends satisfactorily for all.
Or does it? "The Wedding Past" follows Mycroft as a young man out of his element, exploring his sexuality in the fraught context of 1980s cottaging culture while he prepares for a gay-unfriendly career in intelligence. The vivid characters he encounters in this brief flowering of his erotic life could mark him for years to come - especially a particular vice cop who has his work cut out for him.
An intimate epilogue in an unusual setting brings the timelines together and points toward a potential resolution of poor decisions made in the past.
I hope it doesn't give too much away to note that there's an incident involving extremely dubious consent. This kind of thing is to my taste, and I feel that the author handled it well, but it did have an impact. In any case, it's of a piece with the humane complexity of the writing.
Author: Bold_as_Brass
Pairing: Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, incidental Mycroft Holmes/OMC
Length: 29,271 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock (BBC)
Author's summary: The past is always with us, but sometimes life gives us a second chance.
Reccer's comments: Charming, canny, heartbreaking, and hot? Check, check, check, check. I'll risk being fifteen minutes late for work if Bold_as_Brass shows up in my inbox first thing in the morning.
I don't know what this writer does at work, but boy can they edit. Scenes are set up at an easy pace, sensual detail interlocking neatly with background information, light humor and enough tension to keep things ticking along.
This pair of stories explores first times, twice.Minor spoilers follow.
In "The Wedding Present," Mycroft lurks around the edges of the Watsons' reception party and Holmesily manipulates Greg into his bed. Lestrade-POV sex ensues, progresses with a couple of interesting wobbly moments, deftly navigates the intellectual and personal power differential, ends satisfactorily for all.
Or does it? "The Wedding Past" follows Mycroft as a young man out of his element, exploring his sexuality in the fraught context of 1980s cottaging culture while he prepares for a gay-unfriendly career in intelligence. The vivid characters he encounters in this brief flowering of his erotic life could mark him for years to come - especially a particular vice cop who has his work cut out for him.
An intimate epilogue in an unusual setting brings the timelines together and points toward a potential resolution of poor decisions made in the past.
I hope it doesn't give too much away to note that there's an incident involving extremely dubious consent. This kind of thing is to my taste, and I feel that the author handled it well, but it did have an impact. In any case, it's of a piece with the humane complexity of the writing.