#bamf mary

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Sherlolly Appreciation Week has been brilliant - I’ve seen and read so many wonderful pieces 💖

This series by @stlgeekgirl is absolutely incredible - if you haven’t already, I recommend you give every part a read. Victorian AU, picking up the threads of TAB and weaving them masterfully into the Sherlolly story we know and love. Delightful from start to finish.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2205948

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Thank you @stlgeekgirl for writing and sharing ❤️

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Magpie: Three for a Girl

She pulls the gun back to cock it and then resumes her stance.

The escalation frightens the man who cowers and lapses into Danish, crying, "Nej, nej!... You’re–– you’re doing this to protect him from the truth... but is this the kind of protection he would want?"

Mary never gets the chance to answer that question, because a baritone voice behind her comments, "Additionally, if you’re going to commit murder, you might consider changing your perfume, Lady Smallwood."

 As she turns to face him, all Mary can think is Oh, Sherlock, you stupid, stupid boy.

If you want to know how Mary went from being John’s Guardian angel to the point of shooting his Best Man Friend, read on... here

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Magpies: Three for a Girl   Chapter Five

As the lights are switched on, Lady Smallwood walks straight to the refrigerator, opening it and taking out a bottle of white wine. She thumbs the Vacuvin top off with one hand while opening the cupboard above to take out a Riedel glass. Marjaana watches as the glass is filled to the halfway mark and then, after a momentary hesitation, to the three-quarters full level. She puts the bottle back in the fridge and then comes around the kitchen island, heading for the chair in which Marjaana is sitting.

The tall blonde manages two steps in that direction before stuttering to a halt. "Who the hell are you?"

Marjaana raises her hands away from her black-clad body and says, "The answer to that depends on you, Lady Smallwood."

Read it all here on Ao3

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Magpies: Three for a Girl

“She'd run for her life. As far and as fast as she could, burying herself in a plethora of different disguises, never staying anywhere for long, never making contact with anyone who might have links to any intelligence service anywhere. She'd headed straight for civil wars, floods, famines, earthquakes, epidemics—the worst of the worst, places where anyone willing to help was put to work with very few questions asked. The trail should be impossible to follow, and the South Sudanese camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is about rock bottom. Yet now, even that is being taken away from her.” 

Find out more in the latest chapter here. 

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Magpies: Three for a Girl

Mary knows when she's been outsmarted. There aren't many people in this world who can invoke that kind of fear in her, but he has. Putting her elbows on her knees and her head down into her hands, she does her very best to push away the panic that has dogged her every moment since she met Hawking Man.

To learn why Mary comes to this conclusion, read Chapter Three here. 

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Magpies: Three for a Girl

The mystery that is Mary—who she is, where she came from and what debts she accrued along that journey. How did she come to fall in love with a man she was supposed to be protecting and why it will lead her to put a bullet in Sherlock's chest. A five plus one, completed. 

Read Chapter One here.

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Sherlock and Lestrade getting themselves kidnapped and Mary bailing them out of trouble by taking out their attackers but leaving them to get themselves out of their restraints (because they were dumb enough to get captured in the first place) and when they finally get loose and stagger home for dinner she's just like, "Well, what kept you two?"

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Headcanon | Self Defence.

When Mary was at boarding school she was bullied and that sent her to learn self defence. The students were told to find a out of class activity, she found a martial arts centre down the road from the school which they school paid for her to go to, as long as she didn't use the skill unless necessary. She agreed and signed papers and things. She became pretty skilled in it and ran up the belt pretty fast, it helped her escape the torments and taunts of the bullies and the school in general. 

She never reached black belt, but she got close enough.