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Feb 22, 2011 17:26

Title: Willful Destruction of Evidence
Author: wouldbeashame
Beta: captain_vox
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Lestrade, Anderson, Donovan
Summary: The one in which Lestrade ignores a footprint. Not misses, but ignores. And then willfully destroys evidence.
Word Count: 552
Warnings: Description of light torture.
Spoilers: A Study in Pink

( Comfort between the words... )

fanfic, anderson, lestrade, sherlock bbc, sally

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madder_badder February 23 2011, 04:53:07 UTC

This is very clever, and not a little chilling. Very good!

wouldbeashame February 23 2011, 04:59:22 UTC

Thank you.

Yeah, I work out my issues with canon in fanfic. I suppose it does come off a bit... dark? The show started it? Yeah, there's really no excuse.

madder_badder February 23 2011, 05:12:34 UTC

Well, you are right - there would probably be a footprint, or some evidence of Sherlock's, er, enhanced interrogation techniques.(Why do we like this guy again? It can't just be the coat, can it?) So, as I said, clever. But still creepy

wouldbeashame February 23 2011, 06:12:42 UTC

How tactful~ Why do I see that phrase ending up in Lestrade's case report after some unfortunate Sherlockian incident?

I may actually be incapable of doing fluff without a dash of either bizarre or creepy... (Manipulative bastards are desirable? And that neck of Benedict's? Mysterious superpower?)
Thanks again.

genclay February 23 2011, 11:02:30 UTC

This maybe a tad dark, but when you take into account John shot the guy with a deliberate killing shot, and for all intensive purposes John is the show's 'moral centre' I find this fits in perfectly.

wouldbeashame February 23 2011, 11:17:14 UTC

Thank you.

Dark is apparently what I do well, or perhaps am drawn to, in both shows and my fiction. No one in the show is a perfect pillar of morality, no matter what they seem or present to the world. It becomes a game of 'relatively least atrocious', in which I would place John or Lestrade at the top.

Of course, there is the argument of whether it is worse to kill a man who is putting another in immediate mortal peril or to torture a dying man for information that may prove useful in the solving/preventing of future crimes. Was killing the only way to be sure he would not harm Sherlock? Was torture the only way to acquire that information? Do I think far too much about my TV shows?

(Also, please forgive my inner Sherlock!voice for pointing out that 'may be' should be two words here and that the phrase is actually 'all intents and purposes')

genclay February 23 2011, 14:32:29 UTC

I tend to be a fan of dark fiction, or more precisely complex fiction. Layers of moral ambiguity are fun and some of my favourite friendships or pairings consist of twisted individuals who are inexplicably loyal to each other ( ... )

wouldbeashame February 23 2011, 18:19:01 UTC

Complex is always intriguing to me, as well as paradoxes. To have a character rife with darkness and still utterly loyal covers both of these points. I'd blame Heroes fandom for this tendency of mine, but it started long before then, that was just when I realized it ( ... )

madder_badder February 24 2011, 10:58:50 UTC

hmmmmm, I'm not sure when I realised I'm drawn to that dynamic. I did watch the first series of Heroes but it's not a fandom that I've delved into. Maybe I will ( ... )

genclay February 24 2011, 11:01:41 UTC

That was me, I fail today.

wouldbeashame February 27 2011, 04:56:04 UTC

I'd recommend Heroes, anyway. Good and just as twisted, if not occasionally more so at least in fandom, as Sherlock ( ... )

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