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Fic Rec: Destination Unknown
Apr. 18th, 2014 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frozen_delightTitle: Destination Unknown
Author: kete
Pairing: Sherlock/John, John/Mary
Length: 15,700 words
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock comes home to an empty house.
Reccer's comments: This is a wonderful Sherlock/John getting together story which annuls most of what happened in Season 3 and establishes a beautiful alternative canon. Sherlock has a suitably dramatic return from the dead, John has difficulties coming to terms with the fact that Sherlock didn't let him in on being alive but gets a very thorough explanation of why Sherlock did what he did, and after a bit of pining and lots of hurt feelings honest talks are high on everybody's agenda - first between John and Mary, then between John and Mycroft, and last but not least between John and Sherlock.
I really like the fact that in this story people don't just act blindly on their feelings and mess everything up (things are messed enough as it is), but that they actually talk things through first. I've never been able to reconcile readily, mindlessly cheating!John with the wonderful man we get to meet in canon, so I'm really grateful that there's now finally a story which starts with John/Mary and ends in Sherlock/John where John doesn't cheat on Mary and doesn't treat both Mary and Sherlock badly until he comes to term with his feelings.
But never mind that most of the time the characters are sincerely trying to act rationally here, this story is above all things a really sweet and moving love story. It's magnificent how Sherlock's portrayed here through John's perspective. There's such fantastically tender imagery every time John looks at Sherlock which only proves that John's eyes are irresistibly drawn to him and which tells us how utterly and completely besotted he is quite a bit before John realises it himself.
There's other good stuff, such as one of my favourite Mycroft cameos ever and a touching insight into the Holmes family history, so all in all plenty of reasons to give this lovely story a try.
Author: kete
Pairing: Sherlock/John, John/Mary
Length: 15,700 words
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock comes home to an empty house.
Reccer's comments: This is a wonderful Sherlock/John getting together story which annuls most of what happened in Season 3 and establishes a beautiful alternative canon. Sherlock has a suitably dramatic return from the dead, John has difficulties coming to terms with the fact that Sherlock didn't let him in on being alive but gets a very thorough explanation of why Sherlock did what he did, and after a bit of pining and lots of hurt feelings honest talks are high on everybody's agenda - first between John and Mary, then between John and Mycroft, and last but not least between John and Sherlock.
I really like the fact that in this story people don't just act blindly on their feelings and mess everything up (things are messed enough as it is), but that they actually talk things through first. I've never been able to reconcile readily, mindlessly cheating!John with the wonderful man we get to meet in canon, so I'm really grateful that there's now finally a story which starts with John/Mary and ends in Sherlock/John where John doesn't cheat on Mary and doesn't treat both Mary and Sherlock badly until he comes to term with his feelings.
But never mind that most of the time the characters are sincerely trying to act rationally here, this story is above all things a really sweet and moving love story. It's magnificent how Sherlock's portrayed here through John's perspective. There's such fantastically tender imagery every time John looks at Sherlock which only proves that John's eyes are irresistibly drawn to him and which tells us how utterly and completely besotted he is quite a bit before John realises it himself.
There's other good stuff, such as one of my favourite Mycroft cameos ever and a touching insight into the Holmes family history, so all in all plenty of reasons to give this lovely story a try.
