Sherlock: Certainty

[tartancravat]

Title: Certainty
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sally Donovan, Lestrade, John
Rating: PG
Word count: 1,131
Disclaimer: This is a transformative work of the BBC’s Sherlock, which itself is a transformative work. Not making any money here.
Warnings: Spoilers for The Reichenbach Fall
Notes: Written for the latest round of sherlock_remix, a remix of Regret, by yalublyutebya.

Comments

[i_luv_redheads]

I'm glad you wrote this. I feel like Sally is always portrayed as this evil witch with no morals or something. However, we have to remember that she's a cop. She's trained to be suspicious, on alert at all times. How would you react to this pompous guy showing up at all of your crime scenes, making these wild claims, and then throwing your own mistakes in your face? Would you be hostile? Of course you would! Sally gets the idea in her head (remember Moriarty is a genius too and so can we really fault her all that much for falling into his trap?) that Sherlock is actually NOT all that he says he is and the evidence is all there for her to see. Sally is NOT the only one that falls for it. Lestrade isn't innocent in all of this. It's refreshing to read something that shows that Sally is a HUMAN and that she sees the error of her ways but she is STILL not going to fawn all over the idea of Sherlock because that's not her true character. I think it would be frankly ridiculous to assume that just because she realizes that she's wrong that she would suddenly like this douche bag of a dude all of the sudden. That's not how it works in real life.

Wow that was a ranty rant. All of that was to say that I really liked this and I'm so glad that you wrote it. :o)

[tartancravat]

I really like the idea that there's more to Sally's story than we ever see in the show, maybe even more history than just the fact that Sherlock is a dick. She's rather satisfying to write, as a character, because of that.

:D Thanks for reading!