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smallhobbit ([personal profile] smallhobbit) wrote2014-08-18 10:07 pm
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Writing Meme - Something New

Looking through my recent posts to AO3, there are two ficlets written for [livejournal.com profile] fan_flashworks, two fics written for the Viclock exchange on Tumblr, one extremely cracky ficlet written for [livejournal.com profile] ushobwri because I was determined to prove that I could include all six prompts in one ficlet and my contribution to [livejournal.com profile] lewis_challenge summer fest.

And there is also Mary's Little Secret.  Just a ficlet, it's set some time about a year or so after the end of S3 of Sherlock.  The summary I posted said "John Watson thought they had agreed to no more secrets, but it seemed he was wrong."

It began when I saw a post on Tumblr in which it was suggested that the coat Mary was wearing was proof that she'd been pregnant before.  I never had a maternity coat - just some elastic bands keeping the two sides together when I was heavily pregnant in the middle of winter (about when Mary herself was pregnant).  But it got me thinking, what if Mary had had a previous child?  And then there was the possibility of updating the ACD story of The Yellow Face.  So, I put the two together, added a slight twist and, as in the original story, Sherlock Holmes is rather surprised by the outcome.