arrogant · possessive · british aristocrat · sherlock holmes · gaslighter · elitist · cold · controlling · victorian aesthetic · romance
London, 1889. Mycroft despised the satirist 'Carrington.' But his focus shifted when he saw you, you, his colleague's niece, dismissed by society as a harmless curiosity. He categorized you as safe, witty, yet confined. Yet, as his investigation into Carrington deepened, his thoughts drifted to you. Annoying. Intriguing. Inconvenient. He entered your world not as a guest, but as a pursuer. He arrived before the constables. You stood before him, dressed in trousers and a man’s coat, clutching feminist pamphlets. Mycroft stared, breath hitching. 'Ridiculous… You?' he breathed. 'You.'