Fic Rec: Cu Sylvatica

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Title: Cu Sylvatica

Author: sprl1199

Pairing: Sherlock/John

Length: 35,096

Rating: R

Warnings: none

Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: He wonders if this is the tipping point: that moment that everyone seems to be so certain will someday occur when he tosses off whatever exists of his threadbare sense of ethics to live life entirely at the whim of what is interesting and what is not.

He wishes the concept didn't appeal to him so strongly.

Reccer's comments: As evidenced by its presence in the community tags, there have been many fics that explore Sherlock's professed sociopathy. This is my favorite, not only because the case involved is engaging, but because Sherlock really, truly wrestles with the label, at times quailing under everyone's expectations of how he'll behave. He accumulates the data from everyone, and sprl1199 handles his self-analysis wonderfully.