[fic] technically this means i should go write woundfucking

[apiphile]

(but I have to write to my grandmother first)

Title: The Empty House
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Words: 4,090
Pairing: Gen or Mycroft/Sherlock if you squint.
Disclaimer: All of dis belong to da BBC / estate of ACD.
Notes/Spoilers: As the title suggests, this takes place after The Final Problem.

Comments

[alizarin_nyc]

Gah! Phenomenal.

You had me at this - Mycroft Holmes was pleasantly enjoying the fact that communicating through silly little codes in the letters' page of the Times had rendered his brother quite unable to waste words on recriminatory bile.

Every sentence is beautiful and so very, very Mycroft Holmes, I can't stand it. Or I can. Yes, I can!

They engaged in what Mycroft recognised even as he entered it as a very juvenile and unnecessary staring contest, and after a long moment in which Mycroft neglected to count the echoing ticks of the mantel clock’s second hand, he shook his head and let his brother win the dubious honour of dried-out eyeballs.

Ha! Love it. Also juvenile, dirty, stompy foot Sherlock. And that stiff-lipped kiss. And the eating. Lovely.

[apiphile]

Thanking youuuuuuuu. :) I have put, I suspect, an unhealthy amount of thought into what Mycroft's brain must be like.

[alizarin_nyc]

But the result is stunning. I heart unhealthy obsessions anyway.

[apiphile]

Isn't that more or less what Fandom is? :D

[fahye]

YES <3 Yes especially to cryptographical arms races and both of them being supremely petty.

[apiphile]

I am a danger to everyone's sanity with the amount of talking I can do about what I think Mycroft's deal is. :D

[jadesfire]

Holmes is too precious to me for me to risk reading fic. Apart from this one, because I trust you.

Every detail of Mycroft's voice is so perfect that I can see him every step of the way and feel like I'm living it with him. The mixture of justification and guilt resonates so much through the whole story, and their dynamic feels absolutely perfect. I think the references to the uprisings were my favourite, and the way that so little needs to be said between them because they can anticipate each other at every point. Although my favourite line was definitely they had spent rather too long as children engaged in a cryptographical arms race. It just says everything about them, and how what they're still doing is living out that same arms race, over and over.

I still have no plans to go out there to read Sherlock fic, but I feel like I've just watched a missing scene from the series. Moffat and Gatiss have a lot to live up to.

[apiphile]

I trust you.

ARGH. THIS IS *SOME COMPLIMENT*, HOLY FUCK.

[luinar]

I wanted to say this, because this was mesmerizing... I clicked this open on AO3 to read while I had my cross stitch out, and I was doing some sewing. I'm a divil for doing two things at once. I often read stuff online/watch movies/shows etc while I'm cross stitching.

I realised when I was about a third of the way through this that I had paused with my hand in mid air, needle and thread in mid motion because the story had run away with me.

I was enthralled. DRINK A GIN IN MY HONOUR WHEN YOU MEET WITH LANYON. I'M JEALOUS!

[apiphile]

AWWWWWW YESSSS. I'm glad that worked out, I wasn't sure if I was building tension or just waffling on and on.

BUT YOU GET TO SEE HER ALL THE TIME I mean, I will have an additional gin or several on your behalf and try to thing of something scandalous to say about muscular gentlemen. :D

[luinar]

YES BUT SHE'LL GET TO SEE YOU AND I WON'T AND THAT'S NOT FAIR!

I will have an additional gin or several on your behalf and try to thing of something scandalous to say about muscular gentlemen

;_; You know me so well!

[krytella]

You made me interested in Mycroft! I mean, now that I think about it, he's a pretty damn interesting character, but I guess while watching I was too focused on other things. He and Sherlock are such intense people, and so removed from the normal world in their ways that are different but intertwined.

[apiphile]

Yeah, there's something about him, like he's trying very hard to be normal but not quite managing it, whereas Sherlock isn't trying so much. ;)