Fic for holyfant: All Hearts Are Broken, part 1/2

[holmesticemods]

Title: All Hearts Are Broken
Recipient: holyfant
Author: dioscureantwins
Characters: Irene, Sherlock
Rating: T
Warnings: No warnings apply.
Beta: The amazing swissmarg was so kind as to help me. She’s a wonderfully kind and resourceful beta.
Summary: After she’d dried off her face and restored her make-up she stashed the socks in the drawer where she kept her stockings. Every now

Comments

[cherrytide]

I'm really enjoying this! Going to read the rest but just thought I'd comment on a couple of my favourite lines:

Instead he studied her, his piercing gaze gliding from her face down to her hands and back up again, as if he were cataloguing her and comparing his observations with a reference map in his mind.

I love this ! Its just a perfect description of the way Sherlock behaves around Irene in ASIB.

The world’s leading dominatrix, brought to her knees by a virgin. Oh, the sheer humiliation. But then, wasn't it always the exceptional creatures which let themselves be tamed by virgins in myths and fairy-tales, like white unicorns and wild lions roaming the desert and such? Except those virgins were usually demure and soft-spoken maidens with golden tresses and robes the colour of freshly fallen snow. A presumptuous, obnoxious thirty-five-year-old in a thousand-quid suit was a bit of a novelty on the virgin front. A post-modern addition perhaps.
Hahaha, perfect! This feels like such an Irene thought, she has a keen sense of the

[dioscureantwins]

Happy to read you were enjoying this. holyfant's prompts really gave me much to play with.

[drinkingcocoa]

Loving this. That bath was so renewing.