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Prompting: Part IV

Oct 06, 2010 20:02

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Possible trigger: abuse anonymous October 7 2010, 12:06:03 UTC

Sherlock ends up inviting John 'round for the much-exploited-in-fandom Christmas dinner, or just to meet his mother, or whatever. Mycroft can be in it or not.

Anyway, after a while John starts to see that 'Mummy' (who is a single parent for the purpose of this) is emotionally abusive in a sort of... subtle way. Not screaming and shouting and all that, the kind of thing you perhaps only notice as really harmful if you spend a while around it.

Sherlock and Mycroft never noticed it as such, not having another frame of reference.

(Inspired by this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/aprilechidna/asw3.png so bonus for some kind of mention of that being her idea of a work ethic.)

Re: Possible trigger: abuse ptelefolone October 7 2010, 13:07:45 UTC

I remember going round to a friend's house for lunch, and him telling his mum "hey mum, I got 100% on my mid-sem test," and her only response being "oh really? well, you're improving", so yeah, I can definitely see this. :( Seconded.

Re: Possible trigger: abuse anonymous October 7 2010, 14:15:02 UTC

LOL That sounds like my mum. When I graduated from Uni the conversation was:

"Mum, I graduated with a 4.0 GPA, the same as I've had every year!"
"Oh really? Well you could improve a little."
"No I couldn't. 4.0 is the highest possible."
"Well it's not terrible. I know you could try harder though."

Re: Possible trigger: abuse anonymous October 9 2010, 10:45:38 UTC

Sometimes it takes nothing at all. My mom never says anything about me or how I do. She's also vehement about her policy of "if you don't have anything nice to say..."

Re: Possible trigger: abuse anonymous October 10 2010, 07:29:14 UTC

Uggg... I recently figured out this is my own mother.

Re: Possible trigger: abuse anonymous December 5 2010, 08:28:25 UTC

I...second this notion. Me, too.

Fill a) anonymous October 11 2010, 10:38:32 UTC

Anoning, because the topic is not something I'm comfortable with (or, thankfully, know much about.) Let's hope, I won't offend anyone ( ... )

Re: Fill a) anonymous October 17 2010, 02:05:33 UTC

This is wonderfull. A perfect star point, I can't wait to see more!

Re: Fill a) xtinethepirate November 11 2010, 05:18:44 UTC

this is wonderfully uncomfortable and sad so far, and gives a very different twist on the 'you know how it upsets Mummy' conversation from show!canon. Hope there's more to come.

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