Fic Rec: Everlasting

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Title: Everlasting
Author: cypress-tree (cypress_fic)
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: ~17,000 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Verse: Sherlock BBC fusion with Tuck Everlasting, no knowledge of Tuck Everlasting necessary

Author's summary: Most lives end. A Tuck Everlasting fusion, in which the Holmes brothers have lived for a very, very long time.

Reccer's comments: A gorgeous fusion that squeezes at the heart without ever going for cheap manipulation or saccharine melodrama. The relationship between John and Sherlock is as instant as it is on the show, but the emotions are rendered so genuinely that you experience them as a reader - we are not simply told that they feel passionately about each other, but we are made the feel the same. Their relationship is bittersweet but lovely every step of the way, and I do encourage those who might be put off by the warnings to read anyway. "Everlasting" is wholly satisfying in a way that hurts, and we as readers get that reward only by virtue of the content that necessitates those warnings. And, though I came for the romantic pairing, it does not escape my notice that the relationship between Sherlock and Mycroft - rendered in broad, stark strokes that leave a reader with only impressions, but ones that run deeper than any spring in the woods - is exactly how I like to see them: prickly and marked by disdain, but bound together not just by blood but by choice and their version of deeply buried affection.

Comments

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Lovely. Thanks so much for the rec!