A Holmesian Solstice

Title: Four Times Mycroft Holmes Tried to Look After His Brother, and One Time Sherlock Returned the Favour
Recipient: dogandmonkeyshow
Author: pipmer1
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sebastian Wilkes, Anthea
Rating: Teen
Warnings: mention of drug use
Wordcount: ~5,000 words
Summary: Best intentions and manipulative machinations don’t always lead to desired or expected results. Absolution, however, is generally forthcoming if one knows how to wait for it.

Beta: REDACTED, who helped tremendously with tightening things up and was stupendously helpful with the Mycroft voice.

Author’s Note: A minor warning: This fic has a decidedly ‘unreliable narrator’ quality to it; as such, their opinions and thoughts about certain other characters are not necessarily the author’s own.

( Four Times Mycroft Holmes Tried to Look After His Brother, and One Time Sherlock Returned the Favour )

Title: I, Spy?
Recipient: ancientreader
Author: solrosan
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: ‘Anthea’, Mycroft Holmes, Lady Smallwood, No pairing
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: Mentions of drug use. Mentions of 2016 Brussels bombings, the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, and other terrorist attacks.

Summary: After having used up all favours he had with people at foreign intelligence services, Mr Holmes had tracked Sherlock down. Andrea really wished she didn’t know about some of the things he had promised to get the information he needed, because she wasn’t sure she was ready to lie under oath for him. He had asked for help, though, and to Lady Smallwood she had no problem bending the truth a little.

Most people think she is Mr Holmes PA. Her nieces thinks she is a spy. Lady Smallwood knows she’s neither. Mr Holmes knows she’s both. Her dates think she works in politics. The woman in question… isn’t sure.

Note: Hi, ancientreader!

Thank you for the prompts (and thank you mods for the match)! I took the “Whatever became of Anthea?” and ran with it. I hope you enjoy it, I had a lot of fun writing it. (and I’m stuck contemplating “Did Mrs. Hudson ever meet Irene Adler?” so that might come later…)

Also thank you to zedille who did some amazing beta work and a lot of support throughout.

As for Anthea’s name in this fic, I’m going with Andrea, the name she has on the script according to the Sherlock Series 1-3 Special Limited Edition Collector’s Box.

Also on AO3: I Spy?

( I, Spy? )

Title: Modesty has never been one of Mr Holmes' requirements
Recipient: solrosan
Author: dognmonkeyshow
Characters/Pairings: “Anthea”, Mycroft, Sherlock, Lestrade, OCs
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Andrea Mortimer is surprised to discover that she has applied for a position in the Department of Business, Industry and Skills. Now she needs to figure out what the job actually is.

Modesty has never been one of Mr Holmes' requirements (on AO3)

Title: Caring is not an Advantage
Recipient: frozen_delight
Author: dioscureantwins
Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft, Anthea, Mummy, Daddy, John, Mrs Hudson, OC’s
Rating: T
Warnings: no warnings apply.
Beta: the amazing stardust_made was so kind as to help me. She’s a wonderful writer and an incredibly kind and resourceful beta. Thanks to her this has become a much better story than it would have turned out to be otherwise.

Summary: “Fine.” A sharp click in his ear told Mycroft Sherlock had ended the call, robbing Mycroft of the chance to implore him to be careful. Slowly, he put the receiver back in place. Perhaps that was better, after all.

I was very happy and honoured to find I had been assigned the lovely frozen_delight. Dear frozen_delight, I’ve endeavoured to write you a story that would give you pleasure and sincerely hope I’ve succeeded in doing just that.

( Read part one of the fic here )

Title: Just another day.
Recipient: goldvermilion87
Author: solrosan
Characters/Pairings: John Watson, ‘Anthea’, Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes. No pairing.
Rating: G.
Warnings: No warnings apply.
Summary: A quite ordinary day in John’s, ‘Anthea’s’ and Lestrade’s lives, because even lives involving the Holmes Brother are filled with routine. In the end nothing ever really happens to anyone.
Notes: Hello, goldvermilion87! I hope you’re not too disappointed with getting a fic and I hope you will enjoy it. For fics you said “funny stories and slice of life stories.” I can’t guarantee the fun part, but this fic shows small slices of the everyday life the characters live.

I want to give a huge thanks to zedille who is a constant source of encouragement and swissmarg for swift and wonderful betaing. Thank you, both of you!

( Just another day. )

Title: Into a Grey Sky Morning
Recipient: egonongrata
Author: [to be revealed]
Characters/Pairings: Harry Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Anthea
Word Count: ~1,630
Rating: PG
Notes: Set immediately following TGG. Title comes from “The Best I Ever Had” by Vertical Horizon. I owe many thanks (and probably my first born) to [redacted] for wrangling an overabundance of wild commas and awkward phrasing and just generally making this better than it was.

To egonongrata: This isn’t exactly what you’d asked for, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. :)

Summary: Moriarty’s game affects more than just those directly involved: Harry Watson and Mycroft Holmes in the aftermath.


( Into a Grey Sky Morning )

Title: One Thousand Apologies
Recipient: the_thinktank
Author/Artist: colebaltblue
Characters/Pairings: Holmes, Watson, Mycroft, Anthea, Harry, Moriarty (safe for gen or read as pre-slash depending on your goggles)
Rating: PG
Warnings: gratuitous use of photoshop and canon references
Summary: an epistolary tale set during the hiatus, i.e. a story told in images.
Notes: The images are of varying sizes, but have all been shown at 100% here so if you have it set to view in your style, it may mess with your layout, best to view it with styles turned off. Images are large and not dial-up friendly.

( One Thousand Apologies )