Fic Rec: carrion comfort

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Title: carrion comfort
Author: SarahT
Pairing: Gen
Length: 4752
Rating: Mature
Warnings: implied character death
Verse: Sherlock BBC 
Author's summary: Companionship is where you find it.

Reccer's comments: What a joy to find that the disappointments of S4 didn't shake SarahT loose, but fired the author up instead. They've served up a few excellent Mycroft-centric fics in the last year, but this one came fast and ferocious on the heels of TFP.

The author is adept at conveying mood, and plunges here without hesitation into the dark well of resentment and misery where we find Mycroft after his retrieval from the cell in Sherrinford. The fic is a portrait in negative space of a brittle, traumatized man who has lost his sense of personal safety, mental stability, professional security and family connection. 

Self-isolated, self-loathing, unable to accept support, Mycroft is stalked throughout by an unnerving shadow - a character recognizable to fans of the actor's other television work but fully independent here - who offers cruel insight and finally a sort of resolution.

( The man was seated at his desk, his feet up, tapping a pencil against his nails. )

This is a horror story, no apologies, no happy endings. Bitter greens to cleanse the palate, if you like.