fic rec: The Least of All Possible Mistakes

[keladry_lupin]

Title: The Least of All Possible Mistakes
Author: rageprufrock
Pairing: Mycroft Holmes/Georgiana Lestrade
Length: 118,096 words
Rating: mature
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: If ever a people deserved tasering, it’s Holmeses.
Reccer's comments: I like AU fics, because it's interesting to see what each author considers essential to the character that travels with that him or her, no matter what else has changed. In this case, it's her sex. Georgiana (she prefers George) Lestrade lives with her husband, visits her mother on Sundays, occasionally works with a nutter named Sherlock Holmes, and gets kidnapped at the end of a long day: ( Excerpt under the cut. )

We see everything through George's eyes: putting up with Sherlock, meeting John and Mummy, being baffled by Anthea, and being so slowly and gently wooed by Mycroft that she isn't entirely sure at first what's happening. It's not the same experience a male Greg Lestrade would have had under similar circumstances, but it's not just the name, canon dialogue, and prematurely grey hair that make this Detective Inspector Lestrade recognizable to the reader.

Fic Rec: The Flight of John Watson

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Title: The Flight of John Watson
Author: JessamyGriffith
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 26646 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: none (see tags)
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: When Sherlock is forced to share his eyrie, he is determined to make the best of it. However, he has no intention of ever pair-mating. It's a pity his body has other ideas.
John Watson can't believe his luck when he meets Sherlock Holmes. But who would ever want a flightless Tiercel with PTSD who can't even manage a courtship flight?

Reccer's comments: Beautifully done piece of imaginative worldbuilding, this is about as au as a story can get and still be in character. I truly loved the descriptions of both avian behaviour and of flight, so very well realised here.

There is also a sequel, Fledgling.