Fic Rec: My True Love Sent to Me

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Title: My True Love Sent to Me
Author: wafflestories
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 785 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Merry Christmas everyone! I'm sure this has been done before one way or another but hey, carol-y textfic goodness, and John/Sherlock, eventually.

Reccer's comments: This is my favorite Christmas fic. Short, sweet, and hilarious. Really, the best summary I can give you of how it makes me feel is to ask you to remember that moment in the movie Ghostbusters when Bill Murray steps forward to talk about the end of days and shouts, "Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!"

This story is gleeful and brilliant, and I always lose it somewhere around the swans. It also sports a truly perfect John voice. And it's an epistolary texting fic, for those who enjoy that style, not to mention an ingenious songfic.

For those who don't devote space in their brain attic to remembering all the lyrics to "The Twelve Days of Christmas," I'll just leave this here, since you will be needing it : )

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: 12 drummers drumming / 11 pipers piping / 10 lords a'leaping / 9 ladies dancing / 8 maids a'milking / 7 swans a'swimming / 6 geese a'laying / 5 gold rings / 4 calling birds / 3 French hens / 2 turtledoves / and a partridge in a pear tree.

Huzzah!