Fic: 221B - Off to a flying start

[anarion]

Title: Off to a flying start
Words: a 221B has 221 words and ends with a b-word
Rating: Pg-13
Pairings : Sherlock/John
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: Not mine.

Summary: ‘365 days of 221Bs’ challenge: a prompt a day, given by atlinmerrick. Day 310.




Previous 221b: Necessity is the mother of invention


Today's prompt: fresh start

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Off to a flying start


“This can’t go on.”

“What is it to you, brother dear?”

“You are living in a rat hole in a terrible part of town, you have no friends and…”

“Kindly fuck off, Mycroft.”

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He had to admit that his brother had a point though. He hated the flat he was staying in. Of course he could take his mother’s money and live in a spacious flat right in the centre of the city. But that money would come with obligations and responsibilities and he was not willing to have his life be even more influenced and controlled by his family than it already was.

Maybe something had to be done.

When Mike Stamford entered his lab and asked how he was, Sherlock decided that it was worth a try.

“Mike, if you hear about cheap but clean accommodation in the city, would you let me know? One room will suffice.”

“For you? Just one room? That is always difficult. Why don’t you get a flat share?”

“I imagine I must be a difficult man to find a flatmate for.”

“Mh.”

He focuses back on his experiment and doesn’t even hear Mike leave.

Two hours later the door opens again and when he looks up he sees to his surprise that Mike – with a smile and a stranger in tow – is back.





Next 221b: We'll always have Paris


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AN:
The prompt -courtesy of Verity Burns- was 'fresh start'.







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Comments

[atlinmerrick.livejournal.com]

This totally made me smile. And what a perfect use of the prompt!

[verityburns.livejournal.com]

Fantastic use of the prompt! Considering what a fleeting role Mike had in the series, I do find myself disproportionately fond of him. I guess he was pretty damned pivotal... enough to inspire two great writers to make him their subject on the same day, even - what are the chances?!

Oh, and:


“Kindly fuck off, Mycroft.”

Love that!

[treelight.livejournal.com]

Awww, this is the very beginning!!

[phoenix-glow.livejournal.com]

Melty, melty, melt. Sigh.