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sherlock60Canon Story:MUSG
Title:Not His Father's Son
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sabrinaphynnRating: G
Warnings: excessive abuse of canon, crossover with Dorothy L Sayers canon
I left Musgrave's service soon after the incident, taking Mother's surname to free myself from Brunton's taint. I found a place as a footman with a good family in Kent, married, and raised my children as paragons of service. In fact, my second son, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Bunter , has just made head footman to Sir John Sanderton. He will go far.
John Bunter
Author's Note: Yes, well... the story mentions a boy in the list of the servants, and also that Brunton was a widower. I thought the boy was possibly his son, who would, of course, do the very opposite of his father. From that leap, a connection to Lord Peter Whimsey's devoted and highly intelligent manservant, Mervyn Bunter, and Musgrave's schoolteacher-turned-servant followed. So I made them family, naturally.
(The illegitimate one follows, also resolving the 'Whatever happened to Rachel?' issue. )
Rachel told me she needed to leave a week before he went missing. I pitied her; bereft, discarded, retching daily over her morning gruel. Rather than Wales, I suggested she head towards my people in Kent. I had brothers who were not averse to a pretty face and inclined to overlook a babe born "early".
Alicia Smithers, nee Bunter.
Author's Note: Yes, well... Don Juan is not a flattering label. I never thought well of Brunton, anyway. I think Alicia - the cook, by the way- liked Rachel and really just wanted to help her. As Rachel was pregnant and this loathsome man tossed her aside, one can see she would have cause to at least feel murderous, more so if one considers how she would be treated at the time. She certainly would not be inclined to get help on his behalf. Rachel's baby, by the way, is a girl, who grows up to become Mervyn Bunter's mother.
Who is Mervyn Bunter, you ask? well... click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Bunter
Canon Story: MUSG
Title: Not Her Father's Daughter
Author: "sabrinaphynn"
Rating: PG
Warnings: child out of wedlock, me being a nerd and therefore abusing of Doyle and Sayers' canonical characters
Also: This story is separate to 'Not His Father's Child' Otherwise it would be half-sibling incest- far too many common genes/chromosomes.
Also: This story is separate to 'Not His Father's Child' Otherwise it would be half-sibling incest- far too many common genes/chromosomes.
Rachel told me she needed to leave a week before he went missing. I pitied her; bereft, discarded, retching daily over her morning gruel. Rather than Wales, I suggested she head towards my people in Kent. I had brothers who were not averse to a pretty face and inclined to overlook a babe born "early".
Alicia Smithers, nee Bunter.
Author's Note: Yes, well... Don Juan is not a flattering label. I never thought well of Brunton, anyway. I think Alicia - the cook, by the way- liked Rachel and really just wanted to help her. As Rachel was pregnant and this loathsome man tossed her aside, one can see she would have cause to at least feel murderous, more so if one considers how she would be treated at the time. She certainly would not be inclined to get help on his behalf. Rachel's baby, by the way, is a girl, who grows up to become Mervyn Bunter's mother.
Who is Mervyn Bunter, you ask? well... click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Bunter
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Date: 2012-08-26 11:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-26 11:59 pm (UTC)Besides, I want someone just like him in my life. Alas, no one is coming forward.
:D
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Date: 2012-08-27 12:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 12:49 am (UTC)Thanks!
Yeah it's fun. I cannot make fun of Holmes' mess because I am so messy myself and yet somehow I am the one who knows where every important thing is, even amoung the clutter.
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Date: 2012-08-27 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 03:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 12:08 pm (UTC)Thanks for the comment!
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Date: 2012-08-27 05:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 12:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 06:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 12:12 pm (UTC)That crossover sounds great!
Thanks for the commenting goodness. ;-)
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Date: 2012-08-27 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 06:10 pm (UTC)Dorothy L Sayers was a big Holmesian fan, so it seems fitting to weave the characters.
:D
I'd bow, but that would be spoilers. (rolls eyes.)
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Date: 2012-08-27 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 08:45 pm (UTC)I can squarely place the blame of my both my ACD and DL Sayers obsessions on growing up watching PBS- WGBH Boston, who is the co-producer with the BBC of Mystery! (now Masterpiece Mystery) where the Sayers Whimsey stories were featured as well as the Granada Holmes series.
Oh, and I just adored the actor who played Bunter in those series.
(I guess even then I had a thing for dark-haired men)
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Date: 2012-08-27 09:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-28 06:48 am (UTC)60 for 60, week 2: The Musgrave Ritual
Date: 2012-08-30 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-04 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-04 01:49 am (UTC)(My sympathies run to the servants, probably from growing up in a blue-blood town where even having a drop of Irish blood can automatically mark you in some people's eyes as servant's class, and this is New England, - not Great Britain but America! )
And really, if you like Doyle, you would enjoy Dorothy L. Sayers. She was a witty writer and an avid Holmesian as well!