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Fic Rec: Unbranded Air
Aug. 14th, 2014 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swissmargTitle: Unbranded Air
Author:
suitesamba
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 48,249 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John Watson, widower, tried to leave medicine behind when he left England and came to America. Sherlock Holmes, trying to avoid the marriage his family insisted on, was sent to America after embarrassing his mother and damaging his family's social reputation. Hired to help solve a cattle rustling ring with his unbelievable deductive skills and knowledge of soils, Sherlock is injured and taken to John's ranch. He holes up there while his broken leg heals and pulls John into the investigation, and the two find common ground in more ways than either expected. An AU set in the Wyoming Territory in the 1890s, with John as an army doctor/Afghanistan veteran who wants to start over and Sherlock as a detective without a mobile phone and only John to ease his boredom.
Reccer's comments: I've seen a couple of attempts at Sherlock fics set in the Wild West, but in my opinion this is the one that really hits the bull's eye. John and Sherlock are still Englishmen but given valid reasons for being in Wyoming. When they meet, the two form a fast and unusual friendship that gradually becomes more. There is a case going on which is nicely done, but mostly the attraction of this fic for me is the novel setting - it's especially fun to 'see' them wearing Western gear (the chaps kind of left me breathless) - and the exploration of John's past. And of course how John and Sherlock deal with their mutual attraction in an era that was decidedly not open to that sort of thing.
Excerpt:
( With John in Western gear and a mustache... )
Author:
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 48,249 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John Watson, widower, tried to leave medicine behind when he left England and came to America. Sherlock Holmes, trying to avoid the marriage his family insisted on, was sent to America after embarrassing his mother and damaging his family's social reputation. Hired to help solve a cattle rustling ring with his unbelievable deductive skills and knowledge of soils, Sherlock is injured and taken to John's ranch. He holes up there while his broken leg heals and pulls John into the investigation, and the two find common ground in more ways than either expected. An AU set in the Wyoming Territory in the 1890s, with John as an army doctor/Afghanistan veteran who wants to start over and Sherlock as a detective without a mobile phone and only John to ease his boredom.
Reccer's comments: I've seen a couple of attempts at Sherlock fics set in the Wild West, but in my opinion this is the one that really hits the bull's eye. John and Sherlock are still Englishmen but given valid reasons for being in Wyoming. When they meet, the two form a fast and unusual friendship that gradually becomes more. There is a case going on which is nicely done, but mostly the attraction of this fic for me is the novel setting - it's especially fun to 'see' them wearing Western gear (the chaps kind of left me breathless) - and the exploration of John's past. And of course how John and Sherlock deal with their mutual attraction in an era that was decidedly not open to that sort of thing.
Excerpt:
( With John in Western gear and a mustache... )
