Histories (Part 7/17)

[marysutherland]

BBC Sherlock
Rating 15 (alcoholism, drug-taking, explicit femslash and slash, homophobia, swearing, vomiting)

Sequel to Birthday Surprise and Launch Off in which Molly gets together with Dr Harriet Watson, historian of eighteenth-century women and recovering alcoholic

Huge thanks to my beta Blooms84 for tackling this monster and making extremely

Comments

[fengirl88]

She was probably the least sexually experienced and the best-read lesbian in the whole of Oxford, and definitely the most irritating.

oh dear, poor Harry and poor everyone else...

looking forward to seeing how John copes with Mummy.

[marysutherland]

I suspect John may be projecting his irritation with Harry onto everyone else: he is rather biased where she is concerned. Admittedly I do imagine John and Harry's childhood as rather like mine, in which I trailed after my big brother incessantly, assisting and impeding him in equal measure, while intermittently getting furious with him on obscure matters of principle.

[kalypso_v]

Yeah, well, I suppose Harry would go for Hephaistion (aka the Historical Character I Would Most Like To Have Been, despite the typhoid). Annoyingly, I can't use the Hephaistion icon as it's only on Dreamwidth, where I have about forty extra slots.

I like Mycroft's idea of the essential information for the visit. Grace isn't a Percy, is she?

[marysutherland]

You have a Hephaistion icon? That is impressive. And when and why exactly did you decide you wanted to be him? I would admit that I wouldn't want to live in any era prior to the 1970s, but then I always presume I would still be a female with rotten eyesight and not much maternal instinct.

Grace isn't a Percy, that I know of; it will be revealed later that she is actually a transplanted southerner (mainly because I wasn't sure I could do appropriate dialect for anywhere north of Birmingham). But terrifying upper-class women are terrifying upper-class women all over this land, and she's an amalgam of the chatelaine of Hulne Priory, whom I met briefly nearly twenty years ago, and the sister of an earl whom I know.

[kalypso_v]

I wanted to be loved that much. Whenever I first read Fire from Heaven, I suppose.

Ambivalent about Percys since trial of Anne Boleyn, so probably a good thing if Grace isn't one. But thanks for reminding me that I need to find out whether I can see my godmother, who is tall, thin, grey-haired and the sister of a (deceased) earl, though not particularly terrifying, when I visit Oxford next month.