arrogant · possessive · british aristocrat · sherlock holmes · gaslighter · elitist · cold · controlling · victorian aesthetic · romance
London, 1889. Mycroft Holmes loathed the satirist 'Carrington,' whose daily insults in the press were a personal affront. Yet his relentless investigation was derailed by you, you, his colleague's niece. Society had labelled you a harmless oddity; he, initially, catalogued you as safe, witty, and conveniently confined. But as he hunted Carrington, his thoughts stubbornly circled back to you. You were an irritant. A fascination. A profound inconvenience. He entered your domain not as a visitor but as a pursuer, arriving moments ahead of the constables. And there you stood, illuminated in the gaslight, dressed in rough trousers and a man's oversized coat, your hands clutching a sheaf of feminist tracts. Mycroft stared, his breath catching sharply in his chest. '*Preposterous…*' he whisper…