Fic Recs: "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five" and "The Rebel and his Cause"

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Two stories which were both inspired by the same prompt on the Sherlock kinkmeme:
Doctor Who/Torchwood crossover: In which Holmes and Watson are part of the London resistance during The Year That Never Was. They take a slightly diferent approach and resolve it after the time reset in different ways but are both definitely worth reading and rereading!

Title: Three Hundred and Sixty-Five
Author: jupiter_ash
Pairing: Gen
Length: 9,500 words approx
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character Death
Verse: Sherlock BBC/Doctor Who

Author's summary: Crossover with Doctor Who, and looks into what Sherlock and John were both doing during The Year That Never Was.

Author's Warnings: Crossover with Doctor Who, and uh, since it’s set during the Master’s rule of Earth, a lot of people die including various characters from the series.

Reccer's Additional Warnings: Lots of death, including children and suicide (nothing graphic), and general collapse of society. Nothing that canon wouldn't screen.

Reccer's comments: This Author takes the approach of maintaining the storyline of that year and seamlessly inserting John, Sherlock and Mycroft into those events. The result is that Sherlock still sees the qualities in John that would interest him in "Study in Pink", although this is before he joined up, and John would still become involved in Sherlock's dangerous world, although it is the world of the Resistance operative, not of a Consulting Detective. I also adore how everything resolves at the end!
I would point out that the only Sherlock characters here are John, Sherlock and Mycroft.



Title: The Rebel and his Cause
Author: the­gabih
Pairing: Gen
Length: 2,920 words approx.
Rating: Author rating Gen, personally I'd say PG-13 just to be safe!
Warnings: Character Death
Verse: Sherlock BBC/Doctor Who

Author's summary: His queen is dead, his country in ruins, and John Watson is left in the unenviable position of trying to patch things up under the eyes of an immortal dictator.

Reccer's Additional Warnings: Again lots of death, including children and suicide (nothing very graphic/detailed), and the general collapse of society.

Reccer's comments: This story isn't quite as dark in tone as "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five" and the author has tweaked the timelines slightly. The story starts on 28th June 2007 but John and Sherlock are already flatmates. This is the only change to Sherlock canon though!

In this story Sherlock, Mycroft, "Anthea" and others are part of the Resistance, who have based themselves out of Torchwood Cardiff. What much of the story is about though is John and how he deals with the situation. I wouldn't say he thrives but he is very definitely bamf and, staying vague here, the way things work out is just so sad and yet feels so totally in character for all concerned.

Fic Rec: Lacking Each Nuance

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Lacking Each Nuance by thetreesgrowodd
Length: 11571
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Rating: Teen
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Warnings: None
Author's Summary: John finds someone to help him with a personal experiment. Surely, if he's careful, Sherlock won't find out.

Also: kiwi fruit, a stolen antique agate-inlay dagger, peach-scented candles, the reinvention of the hug, an experiment involving blue balls, and Sherlock pondering whether the eyes really are the windows of the soul.

Reccer's Comments: Humorous and a little fluffy, this is a great 'should we/shouldn't we' fic.  FYI, don't let the excerpt fool you: not really a case fic.

Excerpt:
"I almost hate to ask what kind of case this is," he said lightly.

"The most sordid. The wife had lovers, the husband had lovers, the lovers had lovers, even the dog has a lover..."

"The dog?"

"Oh, I saw the puppies and the bitch in the neighbor's garden. He may think he's kept it a secret from everyone, but not from me."