Fic Rec: The trouble it took to find you

[frozen_delight]

Title: The trouble it took to find you (also on AO3)
Author: solrosan
Pairing: None
Length: 1,100 words
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: It was nine weeks since Sherlock last contacted his brother and it is time to start tracking him down.

Reccer's comments: This is a gorgeous missing scene set before the events of The Empty Hearse which explains in a very sweet and sassy way how Mycroft ended up saving Sherlock in Serbia. It also answers the question as to why the main plot of the episode has been written and acted out so anticlimactically in a most satisfying manner. The explanation involves Mycroft and Anthea plotting together like two criminal masterminds - and since I love nothing so much as the thought of Mycroft and Anthea scheming and ruling the country together, I absolutely adore this fic.

solrosan always writes the best Anthea and that's true for this story, too. Anthea is shown to be a competent, independent, witty woman who can think for herself and who's very fond of both Holmes brothers, which makes it seem very natural that she's constantly helping them - and that she's now also playing such a vital part in Sherlock's rescue. The way Mycroft is characterised, clearly worried about his brother, but voicing that worry in his typical understated, distanced manner and trying to retain his composure as though nothing had happened, is also a true joy to read.

In short: This is a sweet, diverting and surprisingly insightful read, full of beautiful little additions to the new canon.

Comments

[solrosan.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the wonderful rec :D It made me so happy to read! Thanks you.

[frozen_delight]

You're very welcome, obviously. :) I'm always so grateful when you write your wonderful stories where you have Anthea explain the world (in this case the new canon) to me.