Recorded (Sherlock)

[morganstuart]

Title: Recorded
Author: Morgan Stuart
Fandom: Sherlock
Disclaimer: This universe does not belong to me; I'm just an appreciative visitor. I make no profit from this fan work.
Description: When each of the three men screams, all Sherlock can do is listen.
Historian's Note: This was originally written as a standalone story. If you wish, however, you'

Comments

[amedia]

*incoherent wail* Oh, this hurts, but it hurts so good

[morganstuart]

Oh, whew! I was quite nervous about this one (which is why I sat on it for two months before posting it here), so it's wonderful to hear that it "hurt so good." I looked on it as something of an experiment in style, so it's especially thrilling to know that the prose worked well for you.

It's tremendously gratifying to know that the sequence with Mrs Hudson made you genuinely worried for her, as I'd hoped - and relieved, when Sherlock couldn't let her go through with it.

Sherlock's desperate attempts to learn from the recordings, what he can't learn, what he does learn (about Lestrade and Watson personally), so very deeply IC. Oh, thank you so much! It feels foreign and plain wrong to imagine him as helpless, so I'm grateful that his reactions here still seem in character to you. I'm doing a little internal "happy dance" now, knowing that the ending struck the right note of heightened strain, too

[morganstuart]

Augh! *hugs you tightly*

I'm glad you found this to be effective. As always, thank you so much for reading and commenting! You're the best.

[morganstuart]

Oh, thank you so much for this - and apologies for the shredding! *hugs*

[sabrinaphynn]

Third-ing the shredded comment. I am a big ol pile of mozzarella cheese here.

Sherlock is certainly dancing under Moriarty's thumb here, yikes!

(great.... Now I want pizza, too!)

[morganstuart]

Mmm... pizza...!!!

Apologies for the shredding! Yes, this is as close to helpless as I can imagine poor Sherlock. Moriarty is a bad, bad man.

Thank you so much for reading and commenting. Have a bite of mozzarella for me, okay? ;)

[ext_356711]

I think amedia said it best. That was very powerful, and tragic, and I think the ending was exactly right. Moriarty is no fool. He's not missing anything important in the philosophy that caring makes a person weaker--because it does. It can also make a person stronger, but Moriarty knows that too. He's not missing it--he's working around it, and in that way he does bring Sherlock down. Brilliant.

[morganstuart]

Thank you so much for this. It's wonderful to hear that the ending struck the right note.

Moriarty is no fool. He's not missing anything important in the philosophy that caring makes a person weaker--because it does. It can also make a person stronger, but Moriarty knows that too. He's not missing it--he's working around it, and in that way he does bring Sherlock down.

Oh, this! THIS! You've stated it so clearly and eloquently here. That's exactly what I imagined happening. Thank you so much for underscoring this. I'm thrilled it came through in the story, especially the part about working around it: John's and Lestrade's caring truly does make them remarkably strong here, but Moriarty knows how to use their heroism to his advantage to torment Sherlock further -- to, as you say so well, "bring Sherlock down."

I'm so happy that this worked for you. I can't thank you enough for your lovely comments, but I'll try: thank you!