Fic Rec: The Fundamental Things Apply

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Title: The Fundamental Things Apply
Author: raina_at
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 6,500 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: "Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten." - Proverb

Reccer's comments: Happy April, everyone! This fic is one of my favorite uses of the 5+1 format, in this case "five times Sherlock kissed John and one time John kissed him back." The heart of the story is really a gentle examination of the idea of addictions -- to drugs, to danger, to losing control -- and it becomes a lovely portrayal of a romance that refuses to be defined by those addictions. I adore the ending, especially.

(Note: It was written in the hiatus between S1 and S2, so the imagined resolution to the pool stand-off in "The Great Game" is different than canon).

*Mods, for some reason the comm's tag list is not appearing for me, so I can't add the appropriate tags right now. It's probably a temporary glitch -- I'll come back and try to add them later.

Comments

[unovis.livejournal.com]

I added the basics. Not sure why you had a problem, but LJ has been glitchy lately.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot! Sorry for the trouble, hopefully whatever caused it has fixed itself by now :)

[verdant_fire]

Thank you for the rec! That's a new author for me, and that fic was lovely. <3

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

My pleasure, I'm very glad you enjoyed it.

In fact, a couple weeks ago, when you mentioned over at the sherlockbbc comm that you would like to see more stories that had never made it to AO3, I made a little list of ones that I remembered fondly. More will be showing up here this month :)

[verdant_fire]

Ahh, thank you! That would be great; I'll look forward to it. :D I didn't give in and watch Sherlock until right after TRF aired, so a lot of the earlier stuff is like hidden treasure to me.

I really liked that author's 'The Deepest Secret Nobody Knows,' too. :)