Fic (and fanmix) rec: Virginity/Brighton Morning series, by thinkpink20

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Title: Virginity series
Author: thinkpink20
Pairing: Sherlock/Lestrade
Length: 4 stories (27,254 words in total)
Author's summary: Sherlock and Lestrade spend the evening together, and Lestrade learns some things he never knew.
Rating: NC17 overall
Warnings: None for content, but WIP
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Reccer's comments: In which Lestrade sleeps with Sherlock (first time! quick learner though) with what in retrospect might be seen as a certain lack of foresight, and things get emotionally complicated... on Lestrade's end. Nil sign of stoic pining from Lestrade in canon, I have to say (for anyone, let alone Sherlock), but if he were to, I imagine it would come off like this. There's a likeable, unforced naturalism to the characterization, a light touch that keeps the stories from devolving into OTT angst. The sex is really hot and intimate too, which helps. :D

Links go to sherlockbbc posts. The author hasn't explicitly continued the series to a resolution that I know of, but she's written other, fluffier stories that may fall somewhere within the same timeline.

Virginity
The Morning After
Brighton Morning (NB: must add author's fic journal for access)
Interlude

BONUS: Delicate (thinkpink20's S/L fanmix)

Fic rec: This Town We're Painting, by Fahye

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Title: This Town We're Painting
Author: fahye
Pairing: Annabelle Fritton/Kelly Jones (gen for Sherlock)
Length: 7932 words
Author's summary: She'd never expected to find herself a government employee. But these days Kelly had a boss who'd never once tried to hit on her, an expense account of apparently exospheric height, and a job that was almost as fun as outright crime.
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC + St. Trinian's (2007 movie)
Reccer's comments: This is my bona fide amazing megahit of a Yuletide exchange gift fic, which (despite clear evidence to the contrary) I'm always worried will be overlooked by Sherlock fandom, since it's not tagged as such on AO3. That is, this is really a St. Trinian's fic - the Sherlock content is a free lunch/Easter egg the author threw in when she saw I was in the fandom. But what an Easter egg! My head canon for Mycroft and Anthea's workaday environment, definitely; and as for Sherlock himself, it's too good to give away.