Fic Rec: Transcript 72. Sherlock/John Watson

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Title: Transcript 72.Sherlock/John Watson
Author: UpperEchelonDork
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 19796 (around 6,000 for the chapter in question)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: While traveling to Paris, John texts Sherlock.


Reccer's comments: I am reccing this, despite it being an unfinished WIP (last updated 5/5/2012), because the first chapter can be read as a solid stand-alone one-shot. This chapter is entirely (except for the last few lines) a text conversation between Sherlock and John, while John is on a train to Paris and Sherlock remains in London on a case. I am a sucker for texting fic, and this chapter is the best I've seen in the Sherlock fandom. It is funny, sad, heartwarming and subtly flirtatious. The story starts out with a misunderstanding between Sherlock and John that results in John taking Sarah with him to Paris to attend a friend's wedding. Sherlock gets involved in a case and takes to texting John details and ideas as he works to solve it. Their conversation drifts back and forth between the case, light-hearted banter and serious heart-to-heart discussions. They invariably work their way to more personal revelations, some that are just on this side of unspoken, unacknowledged sentiments.

The author gives the story a mature rating, although what's been written so far doesn't go beyond a 'teen'. Remember, this is a WIP, but I would seriously recommend only reading the chapter I refer to here, otherwise you might just go insane waiting for something that hasn't updated in several months.

Fic Rec: The Flat of Two Serial Killers

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Title: The Flat of Two Serial Killers
Author: janecshannon
Pairing: Gen
Length: 1258
Rating: PG
Warnings: None applicable
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: [Contains spoilers for the story, highlight to see] Someone breaks in at 221b, looking for articles of value but what does he find? A head in the fridge, eyes in the microwave, blood splattered on the floor, maybe some intestines on the kitchen table with the leftovers from a recent meal right beside them and so on. The thief's scared out of his mind, thinking about serial killers but the moment he tries to leave the owners of the flat come home. And they are just as scary, unpredictable and insane as he had imagined them to be.

Reccer's comments: Sherlock and John's lives are admittedly pretty absurd, even with fan goggles. Waving aside the dangerous lifestyle they have chasing criminals, Sherlock's macabre experiments and John's blasé attitude to all the gore are enough to (at least) make most people laugh nervously before retreating quite quickly. And this is with people who have an inkling about how ridiculous they are. Now what happens when a person who has no idea about them happens to ~stumble upon~ their flat in all its glory? Well, you get this hilarious fic, for one. I think, for me, what clinched this fic was the very last line, as I could not stop giggling for a good long time afterward.

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