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thesardine

Bird's Bone

Jun 11, 2011 10:55

Title: Bird's Bone
Warnings: Bondage, Graphic Violence, Stockholm Syndrome, Mild Incestuous Themes
Characters: Sherlock, John, Mycroft, Moriarty
Summary: When Sherlock and John are recovered from abduction by an unknown agent, Mycroft goes head to head against Moriarty to uncover the evasive truth about the incident.
Thanks, thisprettywren for the beta!

( Chapter Four )

bird's bone, sherlock

Comments 22

lindentreeisle June 11 2011, 21:27:54 UTC

Jesus, you write this psychological awfulness so wonderfully.

Not to mention that seeing who is after Sherlock is absurdly horrifying. Yikes. It makes me feel bad for Mycroft- which is a thing that doesn't happen often- because it must kill him that his power and influence can only extend so far when the people he's dealing with are those whose influence runs in the same spheres.

thesardine June 12 2011, 02:14:17 UTC

Yes! If I made you at least feel sort of bad for Mycroft, I count that as a win! Seriously, he is so great. Who doesn't like a conniving, manipulative, strong-arming (and now perverted) bastard? (Granted, I'm trying to look past all that myself.)

lindentreeisle June 12 2011, 02:30:21 UTC

I'm trying not to think about the shaving incident, because EW.

I just don't like Mycroft! I don't understand why my not liking him personally means I can't use him effectively as a character. I DON'T GET IT.

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thesardine June 12 2011, 02:17:05 UTC

Yes, the laptop survived. The window was too far away.

I don't know if you read through the whole thing again, but if so, does it seem like certain parts were clarified? I'm totally not above editing something directly after posting.

kickthebeat June 12 2011, 03:00:00 UTC

COMPLICATED. and full of complications! god, I dig it. you're so awesome.

thesardine June 12 2011, 20:01:36 UTC

Complications! They're hard for me to keep track of, especially when I put off writing them for two months, but they're fun in the end.

eightnoon June 12 2011, 03:45:21 UTC

Holy hell, I was not expecting that. Makes the boys' situation such a tragedy. Seeing what is going through their heads just breaks my heart.

And I am just not sure what to make of Mycroft, although I find his creepiness fascinating.

thesardine June 12 2011, 20:15:30 UTC

And I am just not sure what to make of Mycroft...

Yeah, I know how you feel! But I have a certain soft spot for characters who let me down when I've been rooting for them...

alltoseek June 12 2011, 04:20:10 UTC

So painful. How do you do this?

I want to tell them both just go ahead and hug and cry and cuddle and cry some more - it's OK, and eventually you'll heal and you won't need the crying anymore (and cuddle only if you want to :-)

I work with traumatized children and you have to baby them again, even if they're way past babyhood, and it's OK. The kids only need it as long as they need it, then they heal and will let you know they don't need the babying anymore.

Of course this is easier for children than for adults. And they're having to muddle through it on their own. Poor babies!

And now I want to know if the codes 'Gloria' had Sherlock working on were real or not - if they were trying to use him, or just permanently incapacitate him. *shudders* And evidently they didn't mind killing John along the way. Evil nefarious government! No wonder Sherlock wants nothing to do with it!

thesardine June 12 2011, 20:28:35 UTC

I want to tell them both just go ahead and hug and cry and cuddle...

It's so tempting! I'm like, "I could fix this for them so easily. :c " But I like to make them work for it >:D

What a completely different thing, though, to have to face that sort of trauma in real life. It sounds like you have a difficult but very rewarding job!