Wrong Side of the Blanket
Previously: Mrs. Hudson tutors Sherlock, while Molly awaits for Mycroft to call her. {x}
Scene 12
{Holmes Manor - Mycroft’s bedroom}
“Please, sir. You mustn’t open your eyes,” Gregory was holding a seated Mycroft’s face in his hand, while rubbing a wet cloth along his cheeks and moustache. The beard was dripping with water from the cloth, flowing down his neck and soaking his cravat.
Mycroft began to feel stifled, not from the nearness of his man-servant, which was actually very intoxicating, but from the racing of his heart, making him breathe deeper. He could distinctly smell the man and that did not help him control his breathing in the least.
Rising abruptly, he grabbed the cloth and said, “Ask Miss Hooper to join me in my study.”
Stunned for a moment, Gregory simply nodded and left.
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