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All The Things We Leave Behind by kateba
Fandoms: Sherlock (BBC TV 2010), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
17 May 2026
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Mariam Saleh Spencer-Brown has spent her whole life in crowded rooms, continents away from the place she was born. At Thirty-Two she finds herself in a time of great crisis, faced with the reality that she must flee the only life she knows. Receiving an invitation to join her estranged father, now elderly and frail, in the great house of her birth, she has no choice but to accept. Now she must try to make sense of the alien way of life that her own mother had fled three decades before, without losing sight of one very important loose end that she had been forced to leave undone.
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Mycroft Holmes meets a woman who sees right through him and his Iceman skin, and right into the heart of the little boy who was forced to grow up too early, and she needs his help.
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Perpetua Lonstein-Barclay is a Witch caught between two realities, one the blue blooded society life of her birthright, nestled within the cracks and ruins of the old world, built and sustained off the breaking backs of workers and peasants.
The other a newly burgeoning way of life, grown from the hearts and minds of those who might have otherwise toiled to no end and dropped anonymously into a shallow workers grave, but now found true agency to mold the world around them like clay in the hands of a child.
Both ripe with corruption from the top, she is powerless to escape the blood and money ties of either world. Or so she thinks.
Fate draws her to a man made sullen and angry by his own position in the grey divide between worlds, his own destiny torn in two much the same, but in directions that at first repel her and then draw her closer. Both are there as a result of their own childish choices of the past. Together they seek a solution, to overcome the contradictions in the dialectic motions that rule their lives.
Can they do it? Or will external pressures prevail?
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Julian meets a woman who stands for the bloody destruction of everything he ever ‘worked’ to accomplish in life, and it’s the sexiest thing he’s ever seen.
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It’s the spring of 1868 and Alice Kingsleigh finds herself in a doorway. It is a crudely carved sort of doorway, certainly not meant for the everyday comings and goings of proper society ladies. The promises from the other side frighten her, but she leaves nothing behind, and approaches the possibility of everything before her.
Conversely, it is also April 1927 and Josef Stalin is mourning the loss of his second wife in the centre of a promising bud of the Socialist Future. He knows not how he will continue to find the strength to bring light to the Soviet peoples, but his answer may come where he least expects it.
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