#Bruce-partington plans

[kgreen200]

Case Prompts for John

By KathyG.

Summary: In this sequel to “A Chance to Practise,” that is set in the first-season episode, “The Great Game,” Mycroft suspects that Sherlock has passed the Bruce-Partington case to John. He decides to help him out. Thanks to BesleyBean, from the BBC Sherlock Fan Forum, for beta-reading and Brit-picking my story!

“Then how did he end up with a bashed-in brain on the tracks at Battersea?” Mycroft asked. He was referring to the deceased Andrew West, whom he suspected of having stolen a memory stick containing plans to a missile defence system. John sat in the chair facing Mycroft’s desk in the latter’s large Whitehall office, looking up at him and taking notes; he was wearing a two-piece suit that he had evidently bought off the rack. Night had fallen outside, and two table lamps shed a soft light throughout the room. Leaning against his desk with his legs crossed and his arms folded, both shoes flat on the carpeted floor, Mycroft continued, “That is the question—the one I was rather hoping Sherlock would provide an answer to. How’s he getting on?”

“He—he’s fine, yes. Oh, and—and it is going…very well. It’s, um, you know—he’s completely focused on it.” John grinned at Mycroft unconvincingly.

Yes, sure, he is, Mycroft thought, biting back an amused smile.  You have your share of talents, John Watson, but lying is clearly not one of them.  Out loud, he said, “Well, I’ve told you everything I know, John.”

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[ofbakerst]

a spot of amateur burglary

[jazzandpizazz]

[doingbad]

Holmes and Watson just invented a new love language and it is terrible

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

[..]

[theriseofthesea]

Absolutely cackling at Holmes being upset that there haven’t been any crimes lately and then immediately following it with

“it’s fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal,”

[dathen]

“Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion. But to run here and run there, to cross-question railway guards, and lie on my face with a lens to my eye—it is not my métier. No, you are the one man who can clear the matter up.”

Sherlock: You’re smarter than me, why do you need me?

Mycroft: Because you actually ENJOY floor time :/ and talking to people :///

[blogginmyfavoriteshit]

Oral surgery is made so much more pleasant when one's drug addled brain is filled with soft images of Sherlock Holmes snuggling down into his chair. Just put him on Watson's lap and have him stroke his back and scritch behind his ears while you're at it Sir Arthur..... holy shit

[ineffabletwaddle13]

Holmes tapping his fingers on things such as a book, his lip, his tummy, a piece of paper, a picture frame, his thigh, plus tapping his pipe on a map.

Holmes in the books by Arthur Conan Doyle also taps his fingers on things a lot:

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans: “He sat lost in thought, tapping his fingers on the table”... “ tapping the furniture”

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax: “his long, nervous fingers tapping upon the arms of his chair"

His last bow: “Holmes, tapping the valise”

The Adventure of the Empty House: “More than once he fidgeted with his feet and tapped rapidly with his fingers upon the wall”

A Study In Scarlet: “He gnawed his lip, drummed his fingers upon the table, and showed every other symptom of acute impatience”

The Problem of Thor Bridge: “in his nervous restlessness, he could not sit still, but paced the carriage or drummed with his long, sensitive fingers upon the cushions beside him”

[skyriderwednesday]

 Lestrade and Mycroft met us by appointment at the outside of Gloucester Road Station. The area door of Oberstein’s house had been left open the night before, and it was necessary for me, as Mycroft Holmes absolutely and indignantly declined to climb the railings, to pass in and open the hall door. By nine o’clock we were all seated in the study, waiting patiently for our man.

Asdfghjkl, what did you expect asking Mycroft to climb over railings????

I can only imagine that he and Sherlock got into an argument about it, which Watson and Lestrade stood awkwardly witnessing for a while, before Watson got fed up, forced Lestrade to help him over the railing, and went in to open the front door.

[vaguelysaunteringdown]

Last poll of His Last Bow!

[teaspoonnebula]

If any of you can't be bothered to read today's letter, don't worry, Shaggy and Scoob have you covered.

[sarnie-for-varney]

Holmes making animal noises part 4:

[ofbakerst]

wake up, brother mine

[dathen]

Truly tragic that the Jeremy Brett adaption of The Bruce Partington Plans replaced Lestrade with Bradstreet… It would have been Too Powerful having Mycroft and Lestrade in the same episode but that’s a risk I’m willing to take