Reccers for December

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Fic Rec: The (Second) Prime of Life

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Title: The (Second) Prime of Life
Author: AwkwardAnnie
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes / John Watson
Length: 2,325 words
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
Author's summary: In which measurements are taken, a question is asked, plans are made and it is no great tragedy that that which is forgotten stays lost.

Reccer's comments: In the 22nd century, Holmes was resurrected and rejuvenated in order to fight crime again. Meanwhile, a Yard-issue crime-fighting robot read the journals of John H. Watson and... became John H. Watson. What that latter thing means is never fully explored in the show; Holmes has not-my-Watson feelings for the space of an episode then handily gets over it, accepting this Watson as that Watson and happily fighting crime with him thereafter.

AnnieAwkward's "The (Second) Prime of Life" is a poignant, domestic little story that explores the paradox of this Watson both being and not-being that Watson. After all, there are things that robo!Watson doesn't know, and can't know: John Watson never committed them to paper and Holmes won't -- or can't -- discuss them. Further, as a non-human brain in a non-human chassis -- and operating from a decidedly non-human memory of John Watson's life! -- robo!Watson is a fundamentally different creature than John Watson was. These things matter, of course; how could they not? And yet both men choose over and again to accommodate them, to embrace this and avoid that, and painstakingly build a new relationship on the sometimes-treacherous remains of an old one.

Because there are decided rewards to that effort, and going to Mars is the least of them. :-)