Say My Name 1/6
anonymous
January 21 2011, 23:32:18 UTC
like rumpelstiltskin but better (saymyname) wrote,
guess i'll need to get a raincheck on getting proper sleep this week There's an emergency at work that has to do with the boss' brother. Emergencies at work always have to do with his brother (well, that's a lie, because last time it was a terrorist attack, but at least I get to sleep through those). Sometimes I wonder why M hasn't just implanted a GPS into his arm or something, except the last time I asked him that, he said S managed to rig something up with magnets and maybe an EMP and destroyed it. I couldn't tell if he was joking or not.
Anyway, M called me in yesterday or the day before, since it's past midnight again, at 11:30 PM. I haven't been home since, but I managed to get a few hours at my desk. M hasn't slept yet, but I managed to convince him to eat something (I told him it'd be better for thinking, which I think is even true. Go me!)
like rumpelstiltskin but better (saymyname) wrote,
oh god i'm going to get firedI just put sleeping pills in my boss's tea. He's
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Say My Name 2/6
anonymous
January 21 2011, 23:33:54 UTC
"Hi again," the man says -- short sandy hair, dark trousers, blue shirt. No glasses, no facial hair. He's smiling at her. She has no idea who he is (there's a half-dozen people he could be -- no one dangerous, of course, because she'd have been told to get in the front-seat if he were dangerous).
She waits a beat, until it becomes clear he's expecting a response. "Hi."
The silence draws out awkwardly between them, and after a few seconds, she breaks and goes back to her phone; Mycroft forwards all the emails he doesn't want to answer to her, so she's going through and sending them all the generic form response -- Unfortunately, Mr. Holmes is a busy man, and does not have the time to blahblahblah..."So..." The man says
( ... )
Say My Name 3/6
anonymous
January 21 2011, 23:35:42 UTC
Sherlock refuses to solve a case for Mycroft, so Mycroft pulls strings at Scotland Yard to get him barred from working for them. Somehow, this leads to Sherlock storming into Mycroft's office (right past her, as if she's not even there!) in the middle of Mycroft's meeting with the Prime Minister
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Say My Name 4/6
anonymous
January 21 2011, 23:36:48 UTC
They pick the man up for Mycroft within a few streets of Baker Street -- short sandy hair, watch on left wrist, red shirt with black jeans. Probably John Watson.
He takes being kidnapped rather well. He smiles at her. "Hi, Anthea. How've you been?"
Definitely John Watson. She gives him a brief smile. "Fine," she says, and goes back to typing out her message. ...found no sign of Moriarty in Germany, but reports say...
"What are you doing?" John asks.
"Working."
"What are you working on?"
"Work?"
"Ah, right. Of course." John's quiet for a few minutes, before he says, "If Anthea's not your real name, what is?"
"None of your business," she replies, because her real name is for family (she even has a false identity assigned to her, from working for Mycroft). "If you don't like Anthea, you can call me Elizabeth."
"Anthea's fine," John says. "It's very pretty."
"Thank you."
After his meeting with Mycroft, he says, "So, are you seeing anyone?"
"No."
She's done with work emails and is looking through her own email inbox when she
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Say My Name 5/6
anonymous
January 21 2011, 23:37:39 UTC
She's shopping when a man nudges her shoulder with his own. She levels a sharp look at him. Dishwater blond hair, slightly below average height, military posture, generic clothes. No identifying marks on the face or hands, and he doesn't say her name. Someone she doesn't know. He reaches for her arm, then drops his hand when she steps back out of range.
"Sorry," he says. "I didn't mean to startle you."
She's not good with remembering voices (she speaks to most people on the phone, and the distortion's hard to compensate for), and his isn't particularly familiar. But he's looking at her like she's familiar.
They stare at each other for a moment, him expectantly and her with polite confusion. She breaks first. "I'm sorry, should I know you?"
An awkward pause. "Um, I thought you did. It's John. John Watson?"
Oh. Oooooh. She blurts out the first thing that comes to mind, which is, "You cut your hair. It doesn't look like that on the videos
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Say My Name 6/6
anonymous
January 21 2011, 23:40:27 UTC
"Hi Anthea," John says, and smiles broadly at her as he gets into the car. "I take it I'm meeting with Mycroft today?"
"Mm, no."
Out of the corner of her eye, she can see John look around the inside of the car. "Er," he begins. "Then why am I here?"
"Mycroft wants to talk to Sherlock," she says, and sends the text message to her boss (JW retrieved).
"So he kidnapped me?"
"Mycroft wants to talk to Sherlock alone," she clarifies. "You were on your way home, so he intercepted you."
"Right, of course. You want to talk to your brother in private, so instead of giving him a call like a normal person, you kidnap his flatmate," John mutters, but he doesn't sound angry, just exasperated.
Mycroft can be like that sometimes. She'd complained about how long it took to get to work once, and he'd found her a new apartment and scheduled movers for her, before she'd found out and had to explain to him that no, she hadn't meant it like that and yes, she wanted to stay in her current flat
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Re: Say My Name 6/6
anonymous
January 22 2011, 01:53:26 UTC
Aw, this is sweet! And a very good explanation for the way "Anthea" acts in the show. I like the way you show how she views the world, and the adjustments she makes in order to cope.
Re: Say My Name 6/6dauntdrawsJanuary 22 2011, 02:14:55 UTC
Oh I love it! You did a -great- job with Anthea, you really fleshed out her character and kept her lovely and breezy. And the face blindness aspect was really fascinating.
I -love- that she emails Sherlock with silly pictures of himself, SO hilarious and her relationship with Mycroft is just wonderful. They both look out for each other in different ways and they come off as casual but there seems to be a lot of caring there.
AND JOHN. JOHN. <333333 I love how you wrote him! I'm so glad she finally explained why she didn't remember. Them being adorable over scrabble with each other and him asking her out...Ahhhh! I loved it.
Thank you SO SO much for the absolutely LOVELY fill, you are so very kind and I can't wait for you to reveal yourself so I can read your other works! :')
Re: Say My Name 6/6
anonymous
February 18 2011, 16:27:44 UTC
NotAnthea being faceblind is now my personal canon! There just aren't enough authors writing about it!
It's wonderfully true to my life (well, not the working for Mycroft part, but the faceblindness). I didn't even notice until she said it. I know how John was described but it was how I think of him so it was only at the very end that I really realised.
I'm sorry if I'm babbling but this just makes me so happy! Elena
guess i'll need to get a raincheck on getting proper sleep this week
There's an emergency at work that has to do with the boss' brother. Emergencies at work always have to do with his brother (well, that's a lie, because last time it was a terrorist attack, but at least I get to sleep through those). Sometimes I wonder why M hasn't just implanted a GPS into his arm or something, except the last time I asked him that, he said S managed to rig something up with magnets and maybe an EMP and destroyed it. I couldn't tell if he was joking or not.
Anyway, M called me in yesterday or the day before, since it's past midnight again, at 11:30 PM. I haven't been home since, but I managed to get a few hours at my desk. M hasn't slept yet, but I managed to convince him to eat something (I told him it'd be better for thinking, which I think is even true. Go me!)
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She waits a beat, until it becomes clear he's expecting a response. "Hi."
The silence draws out awkwardly between them, and after a few seconds, she breaks and goes back to her phone; Mycroft forwards all the emails he doesn't want to answer to her, so she's going through and sending them all the generic form response -- Unfortunately, Mr. Holmes is a busy man, and does not have the time to blahblahblah..."So..." The man says ( ... )
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They pick the man up for Mycroft within a few streets of Baker Street -- short sandy hair, watch on left wrist, red shirt with black jeans. Probably John Watson.
He takes being kidnapped rather well. He smiles at her. "Hi, Anthea. How've you been?"
Definitely John Watson. She gives him a brief smile. "Fine," she says, and goes back to typing out her message. ...found no sign of Moriarty in Germany, but reports say...
"What are you doing?" John asks.
"Working."
"What are you working on?"
"Work?"
"Ah, right. Of course." John's quiet for a few minutes, before he says, "If Anthea's not your real name, what is?"
"None of your business," she replies, because her real name is for family (she even has a false identity assigned to her, from working for Mycroft). "If you don't like Anthea, you can call me Elizabeth."
"Anthea's fine," John says. "It's very pretty."
"Thank you."
After his meeting with Mycroft, he says, "So, are you seeing anyone?"
"No."
She's done with work emails and is looking through her own email inbox when she ( ... )
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She's shopping when a man nudges her shoulder with his own. She levels a sharp look at him. Dishwater blond hair, slightly below average height, military posture, generic clothes. No identifying marks on the face or hands, and he doesn't say her name. Someone she doesn't know. He reaches for her arm, then drops his hand when she steps back out of range.
"Sorry," he says. "I didn't mean to startle you."
She's not good with remembering voices (she speaks to most people on the phone, and the distortion's hard to compensate for), and his isn't particularly familiar. But he's looking at her like she's familiar.
They stare at each other for a moment, him expectantly and her with polite confusion. She breaks first. "I'm sorry, should I know you?"
An awkward pause. "Um, I thought you did. It's John. John Watson?"
Oh. Oooooh. She blurts out the first thing that comes to mind, which is, "You cut your hair. It doesn't look like that on the videos ( ... )
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"Hi Anthea," John says, and smiles broadly at her as he gets into the car. "I take it I'm meeting with Mycroft today?"
"Mm, no."
Out of the corner of her eye, she can see John look around the inside of the car. "Er," he begins. "Then why am I here?"
"Mycroft wants to talk to Sherlock," she says, and sends the text message to her boss (JW retrieved).
"So he kidnapped me?"
"Mycroft wants to talk to Sherlock alone," she clarifies. "You were on your way home, so he intercepted you."
"Right, of course. You want to talk to your brother in private, so instead of giving him a call like a normal person, you kidnap his flatmate," John mutters, but he doesn't sound angry, just exasperated.
Mycroft can be like that sometimes. She'd complained about how long it took to get to work once, and he'd found her a new apartment and scheduled movers for her, before she'd found out and had to explain to him that no, she hadn't meant it like that and yes, she wanted to stay in her current flat ( ... )
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I -love- that she emails Sherlock with silly pictures of himself, SO hilarious and her relationship with Mycroft is just wonderful. They both look out for each other in different ways and they come off as casual but there seems to be a lot of caring there.
AND JOHN. JOHN. <333333 I love how you wrote him! I'm so glad she finally explained why she didn't remember. Them being adorable over scrabble with each other and him asking her out...Ahhhh! I loved it.
Thank you SO SO much for the absolutely LOVELY fill, you are so very kind and I can't wait for you to reveal yourself so I can read your other works! :')
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It's wonderfully true to my life (well, not the working for Mycroft part, but the faceblindness). I didn't even notice until she said it. I know how John was described but it was how I think of him so it was only at the very end that I really realised.
I'm sorry if I'm babbling but this just makes me so happy!
Elena
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