Fic: 221B - Truth is stranger than fiction

[anarion]

Title: Truth is stranger than fiction
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 221.




Previous 221b: Timing isn't everything (except when it is)


Today's prompt: legend/ legendary

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Truth is stranger than fiction


He never talked to journalists, he abhorred them and their methods of bending the truth to serve their own purposes.

He did not need to be famous, he did not need people talking about him. The only thing that counted was the truth. Solve the riddle, give closure, serve justice. He didn’t need the credit. He only needed to be right. He only needed John and John’s approval.

He did not care that others talked about him, that they bent the truth in their own way, to serve their own purposes. Some tried to drag his name through the dirt, while others praised him to the skies. He ignored all of it.

He knew that John was not so indifferent about it (neither was Lestrade, but Sherlock never found out that he was behind the letters to the editor that usually appeared after an especially nasty article), but he did not know that John collected all the good articles.

He also never realised that John and his blog did a lot to help build the stories about him, those that criminals whispered to each other in fear and those that the wronged held on to with hope in their hearts.

Despite all the stories no one except a few chosen people ever knew the truth about the sleuth living in 221B.



Next 221b: Family Ties


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AN:
The prompt was 'legend/ legendary'.
Kinda fitting for day 221, isn't it? Yes, it's DAY 221!

I really, really disliked the scenes in the beginning of 'Reichenbach Fall' where he does all the press stuff. It seemed completely out of character to me. For both of them.







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Comments

[atlinmerrick.livejournal.com]

Oh my god you ended a 221B with....221B. You are more than a teensy bit utterly fantastic, aren't you?

[arianedevere.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats on reaching day 221!

[danlef.livejournal.com]

I disliked those scenes too. But it seemed to me that he's been somewhat forced to perform them. Like the men saved were giving the press conferences and wanted Sherlock to appear. You could see he felt awkward there. Hell I understand him so much in that.

Always thought that the press thing had been engineered by Moriarty, somehow. To put him on a pedestal only to make the fall deeper.

[anarion.livejournal.com]

Another reader just told me that in her opinion Sherlock was using the press thing to draw Moriarty out. I will have to watch the episode again with that in mind.

[danlef.livejournal.com]

Hm, everything's possible since we don't see in that f...r Thompson's head. But the version you've just mentioned doesn't ring true to me. Maybe it's just my projection, but I really can see his embarrassment when he's put in the spotlight. If he would staged it to draw Moriarty out, he'd been acting accordingly, showing off more pride, I'd say. But that's all irrelevant anyway:)

[chocolamousse.livejournal.com]

He only needed to be right.
So true.

I love that Greg writes letters to the editor when Sherlock is slandered. But you're wrong, it's not John's blog that helps build his reputation, it's only Sherlock's website and its enumeration of two hundred and forty different types of tobacco ash. *nods*

Congratulations on your 221st 221B! :-)

[rox712.livejournal.com]

I didn't like that part either, so this makes much more sense to me.

[titc.livejournal.com]

♥

[tamzette.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

Anarion, brilliant!

[verityburns.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that is clever... and kind of poetic. Bravo!

I'm with you on the 'Reichenbach' opening - the only way it makes sense in my head is if it was deliberate. I guess time will tell!

[purrculier1.livejournal.com]

I really, really disliked the scenes in the beginning of 'Reichenbach Fall' where he does all the press stuff. It seemed completely out of character to me. For both of them.
YES! This ^ always felt out of character for me too. Sherlock just looks so disgusted at the fuss and his comments about the gifts prsented to him, how he doesn't wear ties and his cuffs have buttons.His expression is just I AM NOT A PERFORMING MONKEY.
Sorry, but GGRRRRRR it just felt wrong.
That said, Yay! Lestrade and his anon letters to the editor and John's secret scrapbook of the good articles.
YAY! To you for your 221st-221B ending in 221B. Your mind is a lovely place to visit(yup)Thank You so much for the guided tours.