Fic Rec: The Schedule

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Title: The Schedule
Author: wafflestories
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 2,225 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John goes to a medical conference. Sherlock goes round the bend. Hurray, mildly stalkery floof!

Reccer's comments: "Mildly stalkery floof" sums up the tone of this one pretty well :) It's not dark, it's charming and funny and at times poignant. John is away for a week, and Sherlock misses him, somewhat unhealthily, but the story manages to keep it overall endearing. I get the sense in this fic that Sherlock looks on himself as a kind of alien in a world that constantly rubs against him the wrong way, and that without John as a buffer he begins to unravel a bit. The author has a lot of fun with this idea, though there are also moments of melancholy or of harshness to balance the humor. There is, in addition, a case that injects a dose of pure adrenaline at an unexpected moment.

The author writes both action and emotion elegantly, and there is a lightness to the tone that makes me smile, sometimes in laughter and sometimes in sympathy. This story wraps a lot into its small package, and I find it quite delightful.