sherlockbbc_fic | Prompting Part XXXIV

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I feel for Janine, w/her pretty face, flashing eyes, hearty personality and her plump thighs.

I'd like to hear how she deals w/not just finding out out some guy was using her for a month to get to her boss BUT her best friend of a few years, Mary, became friends w/her for the same reason.

Edited 2014-02-04 23:51 (UTC)

Sherlock isn't that hard to deal with. She's been used by guys before, usually for the sex or as an escape from a girlfriend/wife, but she supposes that she can lump him into that category.
As she bitterly writes the letters to the papers, she hesitates for half a second, wondering if she should really go through with this. This is Sherlock after all, and she is actually quite fond of him, but he must learn his lesson like the rest, and so she seals the envelope and presses on a stamp.

Mary is something of another matter.
They'd been best friends since they'd met about five years ago, soon after Mary had moved to London.
They'd gone to movies, chatted for countless hours, soothed broken hearts and plotted revenge on exes together.
She'd been the lead bride's maid at her wedding, for God's sake!
To find out that not only her (alleged) to-be fiancée was only using her to break into Magnussen's office was one thing.
But turning from the computer to see Mary - her best friend, the kind-hearted Mary Morstan - dressed in combat gear and holding a gun - that was another thing entirely.
She only remembered Mary saying "I'm sorry" quietly before the world had gone black. The next thing she'd known, she was waking up in the back of an ambulance with a murderous headache to the news that Sherlock had confronted Magnussed and had been shot.
Janine set the letters to the side, leaning back into the stacked pillows of the disinfectant-smelling bed.
Her head still throbbed, and she clenched her teeth as if to threaten away the pain.
She would send the letters to deal with Sherlock, but she would talk to Mary before she did anything.
All she could do now was hope that her best friend had a good answer for her.

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There was a soft knock on the hospital door, and Janine's hands clenched as a familiar blonde head poked into the room.
"Janine?"
"Mary."
"Mind if I come in?"
"Depends, you plan on hitting me again?"
Mary visibly winced, slipping into the room and closing the door quietly.
"I am truly sorry," she whispered, looking up through dark lashes, her eyebrows pinched together in concern. "Are you all right?"
"You have a lot of explaining to do," Janine replied, struggling to a sitting position with a hand pressed to her forehead. Mary reached out and took a step forward, intending to help, but Janine shook her head a bit, letting her know that she was fine.
"Yes, I suppose I do have quite a bit to explain," Mary said after a moment. "Shall I call for takeout? Anything you want, my treat. This is going to take a while."
"Chinese," Janine said, patting an empty spot on the hospital bed beside her. "I'm stuck here till tomorrow - the moron of a doctor thinks I have a concussion - so we have all evening."
Mary sat beside her, taking her hand and giving it a squeeze.
"Thank you for hearing me out-"
"I'll only hear you out on one condition," Janine said, holding her other hand up to stop Mary from talking. "Next time you try to take out Magnussen, you let me know, and you let me help. The bastard's about three months behind on giving me the raise I've earned, and his employee conditions SUCK."
Mary was quiet for a second, considering, but then the corners of her mouth pulled up into a smile.
"Wouldn't dream of leaving you out."
"Good."
The two shared a smile, and Mary pulled out her cell.
"The usual?"
"With egg rolls and extra fortune cookies."
"Is there really any other way to order it?"
The two grinned and giggled with one another as Mary punched in the number, and Janine felt herself relax.
Maybe everything would be okay after all.

THANKS!

Loved it.

Prompting Part XXXIV

Janine

Coping

Re: Coping