FicRecs: Almost Always & Carte Blanche

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

Title: Almost Always and its follow up: Carte Blanche
Author: ivyblossom
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: ~3400 + ~6800
Author's summary: John, fearing for his life, writes a longhand blog post he can never put online./ John has written an earnest confession when he thought he was near death. But he doesn't die. The confession is in a notebook burning a hole in his pocket. What to do?
Rating: M
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Reccer's Comments: The first part is a really lovely character study of John. Kidnapped once more and certain he's going to die this time, he writes down one last blog entry centered on Sherlock and their relationship. His voice is pitch perfect, gritty rather than maudlin. Part 2 describes the fall-out resulting from said entry, after he is rescued by Sherlock after all. I love how Sherlock reacts to what he finds out, and John's valiant attempts to keep the notebook from Sherlock (yeah, right) made me grin!

Podfic by crinklysolution to be found here! (Both parts in one file.)

Comments

[themusecalliope]

I read this at work today (if you can believe it.) It made me smile. Thanks for the rec!

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

I... may have read fic at work once or twice. [read: whenever I can get away with it] ;)

[teatotaller.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed these. I think that John's look at himself in the first part was extremely well done.

Great rec.