Points of Light by Pennypaperbrain

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Title: Points of Light
Author: pennypaperbrain
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 15,000~
Rating: NC-17
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock and John are both damaged people. Gradually they discover how they can help each other to stay alive. And not only stay alive, but live.
Reccer's comments: I'm a sucker for stories where two broken men come together and fall in love. And there is so much to love about this fic. It is extremely well written with a very full use of language. It keeps both John and Sherlock in character, and really explores their motivations with sensitivity and depth, so that the intensity of them coming together keeps ramping up. And when that intensity finally explodes...wow. Amazingly hot, very emotional sex that also manages to be a powerful character study. Penny doesn't skimp on the emotional journey that brings them together, and by the fourth chapter, John & Sherlock, Sherlock & John is inevitable. And brilliant. There is a BDSM component to the story, but I find it quite incidental to the emotional growth between the characters. (And the world can always use more Dom!John and Sub!Sherlock.)

"Sherlock has been chasing a revelation, and the one he has found is not the one he expected. Even while he trains the gun on their enemy and calculations cascade through his head, it’s the sight of John wrapped in semtex that draws his gaze again and again.

Moriarty is a cracked and magnificent mind, but Sherlock already has one of those. John is patience, nightmares, judgement, comfort, anger, touch, dead cabbies, friendship, the promise of sex.

Extraordinary."

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NEver heard of this one; thanks for reccing it!