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SH Rec: Signum Crucis (Mycroft/Lestrade)
Jun. 14th, 2017 10:19 amThings I love about this fic:
- scheming, powerful, morally dubious Mycroft
- persistent, hard-working, determined Lestrade
- John and Sherlock being likeable and annoying in equal measure
- an angel mythology that's half Good Omens and half Supernatural (and that wonderful feeling that after working against someone for centuries, you actually have more in common with them than with your own rarely-seen higher ups)
- wings!
My sign of the best AUs are the ones that leave me wanting more, leave me imagining what else might happen in that universe and how they'd react, and this is a nice series of three stories that worked really well for me. I love the idea of Mycroft as Hell's Great Tactician (who's really decided to ignore the Great War for a while because human politics is his idea of fun) and I love Lestrade as an outclassed angel, someone who knows he's not Mycroft's equal but that doesn't mean he isn't going to try to help humanity anyway. Plus, wing smut. (Mmmmm, wings.)
(Also, the mention of Aziraphale in the second story made me grin. Mostly because I could imagine Lestrade and Aziraphale chatting over a cuppa. I could even imagine Crowley there. However I bet that Crowley would avoid Mycroft as much as he could, because Crowley's general approach to powerful demons is to slink away and hope he wasn't noticed.)
Signum Crucis (12806 words) by manic_intent
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Crossover, Angel!Lestrade, Demon!Mycroft, Interfering!Sherlock, Clueless!John, Wingfic, wing!kink
Series: Part 1 of Pater Noster
Summary:
- scheming, powerful, morally dubious Mycroft
- persistent, hard-working, determined Lestrade
- John and Sherlock being likeable and annoying in equal measure
- an angel mythology that's half Good Omens and half Supernatural (and that wonderful feeling that after working against someone for centuries, you actually have more in common with them than with your own rarely-seen higher ups)
- wings!
My sign of the best AUs are the ones that leave me wanting more, leave me imagining what else might happen in that universe and how they'd react, and this is a nice series of three stories that worked really well for me. I love the idea of Mycroft as Hell's Great Tactician (who's really decided to ignore the Great War for a while because human politics is his idea of fun) and I love Lestrade as an outclassed angel, someone who knows he's not Mycroft's equal but that doesn't mean he isn't going to try to help humanity anyway. Plus, wing smut. (Mmmmm, wings.)
(Also, the mention of Aziraphale in the second story made me grin. Mostly because I could imagine Lestrade and Aziraphale chatting over a cuppa. I could even imagine Crowley there. However I bet that Crowley would avoid Mycroft as much as he could, because Crowley's general approach to powerful demons is to slink away and hope he wasn't noticed.)
Signum Crucis (12806 words) by manic_intent
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Crossover, Angel!Lestrade, Demon!Mycroft, Interfering!Sherlock, Clueless!John, Wingfic, wing!kink
Series: Part 1 of Pater Noster
Summary:
Good Omens!AU. Mycroft trades favours and requests that Lestrade keep an eye out for his current vessel's little brother. Lestrade begins to suspect that having to babysit the impossible Sherlock Holmes is all just a new stage in the technical if highly one-sided war that he's been waging against Mycroft's influence, an opening salvo from Mycroft against his sanity, maybe.
