Comments | marysutherland: It's good to talk

marysutherland

It's good to talk

Nov 07, 2011 09:27

BBC Sherlock

Rating 12 (violence)

Summary: A therapy session brings a shock for Ella. Set after A Study in Pink and spoilers for that.

Originally inspired by the therapy session in Fengirl's fic Sleeping Beauty and betaed by the wonderful Blooms84

( John had spent most of the last three therapy sessions raving about Sherlock Holmes and his abilities )

mental health, ella's pov, preslash

Comments 12

morganstuart November 7 2011, 15:21:28 UTC

"I know," he said quietly, "but so am I."

He smiled at her again: a small, battered, inoffensive man. Ready to save people or kill them.

I really love this.

shezan November 7 2011, 18:17:18 UTC

Very lovely. I might add that David Cameron, etc. etc.

marysutherland November 7 2011, 18:35:06 UTC

Glad you enjoyed it - but this is set just after Study in Pink, which is canonically in Jan 2010, when we did still have the luckless Gordon.

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marysutherland November 11 2011, 20:45:48 UTC

Glad you enjoyed it - it's amazing how you get such a sense of Ella just in the one scene of Pink. (And I think she's in Series 2 as well, which is pleasing).

I don't think they give the cabby a name in Pink. But in Study in Scarlet, he's Jefferson Hope (and a cabby, and does the poison pill swap etc), so I thought I'd follow that.

kim47 November 11 2011, 03:18:59 UTC

This is such an excellent, interesting character study of John. I love it.

random_nexus November 11 2011, 04:44:55 UTC

This was very good. Totally enjoyed being in Ella's head there, and what an intriguing view both of her and of John. I totally bought it, it worked. Very enjoyable read!

marysutherland November 11 2011, 21:47:23 UTC

I've had counselling myself and there's a certain kind of patient yet persistent attitude in a good counsellor/therapist that it's interesting to try and write. I suspect John can't be an easy client to work with, though, even without Mycroft's interference.