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[majesticnerdyvee]

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

in which there is a show, John and Sherlock keep on pining, they go for a pie, and Sam and Dean reach out from Disneyland!

Irene side-eyed John, then Sherlock, and when the former turned his neck to look at his crush (this sounded surreal), he caught a glimpse of sadness in Sherlock’s features. Did he miss something? He almost voiced his question when his phone rang. A notification displayed on the screen -- he completely forgot about this!

“Sherlock look -- it’s from Sam and Dean!” he said, his thumb sliding over the smooth screen to open the phone. He leaned on his elbows so that his friend could see the message. Sam sent him a selfie of him and Dean, both men posing in sunglasses and cotton candy in hand. Behind their backs, the famous Disney castle stood guard. 

“When did you get their number?” Sherlock asked, taking John’s phone, their fingers brushing lightly. John suppressed the need to intertwine them and squeeze reassuringly. Whatever troubled Sherlock, he wanted to wipe from existence. 

“When they drove us back to the Shack,” John said. “Sam wants to stay in touch since they’ll be coming back after they’re done with their exorcism journey.”

An adorable frown formed on Sherlock’s forehead. “I don’t remember that.”

“No, you were asleep on my shoulder.” Sherlock shifted his attention fully to the selfie that framed John’s phone screen. Irene muttered something John didn’t quite catch. “But anyway, I friended him on facebook, so I have him in my contacts. I actually forgot we did this. Good thing Sam reached out like this.”

“I want to see the hot guys too!” Irene complained, snatching the phone from unsuspecting Sherlock. She was so fast he blinked once and then he stared at his empty palm. Irene clicked her tongue as she looked the Winchester brothers over. “Who is who?” 

“Tall guy, long hair -- that’s Sam,” John explained, pointing at him. Both brothers were wearing flannel shirts with sleeves rolled up. “Shorter guy is Dean. He’s the older brother.”

“My lesbian eyes rate them as objectively hot.”

“Thank you for your very important, yet absolutely uncalled for insight, Irene,” Sherlock said dully.

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[sleepy-milkbread]

A little something I drew yesterday!

[majesticnerdyvee]

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

in which there is a conspiracy, Irene had enough of Mary’s shit, Irene is a BAMF, and something else snaps as well

Irene’s heart pounded, blood rushing into her head and ears like a wild river. Her ankles pointed to the fragile ceiling, and Mary undoubtedly planned to do something ominous to her. Think, think! What would distract her? No small talk. She had to shit-talk her way out of this fuckery. Her eyes caught a glimpse of a play ball (who the fuck left it there?) mere inches from her. If she stretched her hand, she’d get a hold of it. She had to distract that crazy woman. Irene took her chance, grabbed the ball, and threw it at Mary. She screamed and let go of her pearl necklace to catch the incoming item of offense. Irene fell on the floor, breath knocked out of her lungs. 

“How dare you!” Mary snarled, throwing the ball back at her, pettiness an obvious personality trait of hers. 

“Hey look!” Irene wheezed, pointing at nothing in particular behind Mary as she regained her sense of balance and gravity. “John’s here!”

“What? Where?” Mary swiveled around her own axis, panic betraying her cool features. Irene pushed herself on her knees, evaluating her options. In the free split second, she made a decision. And then Irene threw herself at Mary and pulled her to the hard floor, both of them screaming bloody murder. Irene hooked her fingers around the pearls necklace and snatched, tearing it apart. It held itself intact enough, dave for one pearl that rolled off the chain. 

But there was not a moment to spare; Irene and Mary were now engaged in a full-on girl fight full of hair pulling, unfair kicking, and throwing the other at an unstable wooden pillar that held the ceiling together. Mary grabbed Irene by her wrists and attempted to throw her across the room, but Irene dragged her along, both of them slamming into the weakest support beam. They stopped dead in their tracks when a loud crack one-upped their screeching and the ceiling gave out. 

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[xistentialangst]

Mary’s Confidante

I’m rewatching HLV. This bit struck me as odd:

From a narrative perspective, this line feels like it is setting something up for a future reveal. Mary has a confidante.

I’ve seen meta suggesting this is Janine (x) and also David (x). These are certainly possible. But the gut sense I got rewatching this was that Mary’s confidante must be someone we know, and knew at the time of this scene. 

David is Mary’s ex-boyfriend. He’s involved only in TSoT as an ex, and perhaps serves as a foil to John’s “ex”, Sherlock. But otherwise we don’t really see much of David. It’s possible he’s being set up as the baby’s father, which gives a better explanation as to why he exists at all in the story. But as Mary’s confidante? That would hardly be a rug-pull moment since the viewer doesn’t know David and has nothing invested in him. Furthermore, he’s already in the position of “on Mary’s side" as her ex-bodyfriend. Also being her confidante is sort of <shrug>, not a reveal.

Janine -- Janine gets involved in Sherlock’s plots in HLV, so it would be a bit of a surprise if she had deeper ties to Mary and knew she was an assassin all along. It would also explain (possibly) how Mary got into Magnussen’s office (though Mary could have just done her assasiny-spider man thing, as we saw her scaling a building in the black outfit in S4 setlock). But again, it’s not that much of a rug-pull because we don’t have much invested in Janine .

The question is: a confidante for what? Even though she’s speaking of Sherlock coming back from the dead here, I’m not convinced she’s speaking of her own “resurrection” as Mary Morstan 5 years ago. Again, it’s not that relevant story-wise HOW she took over the dead baby’s identity. She simply did. I don’t see that figuring into a big future reveal.

What if the thing Mary’s “confidante” is helping her with is the scheme to infiltrate John life and become involved with him, Mary’s whole “nicey nurse” personna at John’s work? That’s much more relevant to the main arc of Sherlock. And what if it’s someone we know? Someone in the main story who has helped Mary all along?

Mycroft? Lestrade? Mrs. Hudson? Molly?

My bet is on one of these. It could be any of them, especially Mycroft. Yet let’s take a look at  Molly. Now THAT would be a rug-pull. I submit:

1.  We have Molly saying at the Sherlocked con that she was Mary were “good friends” (on screen) in (or by the end of) S4. 

2. We have that odd tweet from Amanda to Loo after the S4.E3 readthrough (”What are we going to do?”), implying somehow they were in the same boat.

3. We have Molly appearing during setlock at the beach bit when Moriarty makes his appearance. Why the hell would lab scientist Molly be there? Unless she was a plant all along. (I was looking for the photo she posted of her shoes in sand/rock during that setlock but couldnt’ find it. If you have it please add!

4. We also have this “Molly in disguise” from S4.E3 setlock. Why?  

Also, Molly has medican knowledge, so she could have helped Mary with faking being a nurse.

On the con side: If Molly was BOTH SHerlock and Mary’s confidante Mary would have known all along that Sherlock wasn’t dead. So that opens some new questions. Was she hanging out with John waiting for Sherlock to return?

Am I positive about this? No! It’s just a theory. Take it as you will.

[xistentialangst]

In the trailer at :44 Lady Smallwood says “You say you know what SHE’S going to do next.” Then at:48 there’s a cut to Mary in the scarf with the gun. 

What SHE’S going to do next implies Mary, and Lady Smallwood saying it implies they are looking for her and it’s at a very high level (Smallwood is the PM? Or something similar.) Earlier in the trailer, Smallwood says “You were brought back to deal with this” (meaning the Moriarty Miss Me video).

To me, this implies that Mary vanishes and that whatever she’s done, or whoever she is, is bad enough to worry the highest levels of government. Mary=Moriarty, maybe. Or at least she’s a serious enough threat to worry people very high up. In either case, Sherlock is looking for her.

There doesn’t seem to be an other “she” villain in S4 this could be referring to.

I’m thrilled with this. It’s all dark and threat and there’s not a single shot of Mary WITH John or Sherlock, much less baby and dog as well.