Fic Rec: Quercus Robur

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Title: Quercus Robur
Author: kikainausagi
Pairing: Gen 
Length: 1,600 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: One day John Watson turns into a tree.
Reccer's comments: This fic was inspired by one of those prompts on the meme you think are destined for crackdom, and then suddenly you get...this. A brilliant, touching fic that integrates a truly insane idea into a the real (er...television) world with such deftness and beauty that you swallow it completely, hook, line and sinker.
I think they call it "magical realism."

"An English oak," he says, voice deep with amusement, "Quercus robur. Of course. But John," and here his eyes crinkle up at the corners with merriment, "you do realize 'Heart of Oak' is the Navy's march? Wrong branch entirely."

John drops a twig on Sherlock's head in retaliation. 

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