Fic Rec: With Laurel They Go

[stupidmuse-hate.livejournal.com]

Title: With Laurel They Go
Author: sevensesPairing: dragon!John Watson & Sherlock Holmes
Length: 7798
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC (Crossover with Temeraire)

Author Summary: In which Watson is a fire-breathing dragon of Her Majesty's Aerial Forces. Crossover with Temeraire - knowledge of the series will help to understand the fic, but is not necessary.

Spoilers for A Study in Pink and general series spoilers for Temeraire.

Reccer's Comments: I have never read Temeraire and I know nothing about it--but I loved this story. I was totally taken by surprise once I finally understood the premise. Dragons are bred and raised to be companions for humans. Traditionally, once they are paired they stay with their pairing for life. If their human partner dies first, they can find another one (although some dragons choose not to). Watson was a young dragon bred for fire breathing who was matched with his human soon after hatching--a young man named John Watson. After a human dies, a dragon can take their human's name in remembrance. Watson leaves the army because he misses his partner, and because he can't breath fire anymore. So, of course, where is a former firebreathing army dragon to find lodgings in London? Watson is cranky and Sherlock is his normal self--with the exception of being quite smaller than Watson.

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

In case you're curious, the Temeraire series is a series of books by Naomi Novik, starting with His Majesty's Dragon.

[websurffer.livejournal.com]

I think you tagged this slightly wrong. Shouldn't it be Dragon!John Watson & Sherlock Holmes?

[duh-i-read.livejournal.com]

And for the record, a pretty good alternative history with dragons series.

[fyrdrakken]

Oh, brilliant! I'd read the other two dragon!AU stories you recced, but not this one!

[stupidmuse-hate.livejournal.com]

:D Sounds great! Do you guys recommend it to read, then?

[stupidmuse-hate.livejournal.com]

Well Bugger.

Thanks?

>.<

CHANGED

(and definitely thanks)

[stupidmuse-hate.livejournal.com]

Awww....I had recced them because one of them had exactly zero bookmarks on Delicious and the other one I had never heard of (or it was new? Or maybe that was this one...) But I'm glad you got to read this one!

[websurffer.livejournal.com]

No probs. I was just a tinsey bit befuddled and thought I'd point it out as gently as I could phrase in text.

[fyrdrakken]

I follow mad_maudlin, so I can't recall if I've seen that story also recced on this comm before or just read it when it was posted, but I definitely got pointed to the How to Train Your Dragon crossover from somewhere. I'm delighted to find a Temeraire crossover, though. (Yes, I heartily recommend the books -- though the last few have kind of turned into the author travelling the world and showing what the dragons of various continents are like in this alternate universe, the first two or three are particularly good.)