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Title: Four Corners of the Western World
Author: faviconpennypaperbrain
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 100,480 words
Rating: Mature to Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: None provided for the series. Summary for part 2: Four months after his best friend and unrequited crush apparently committed suicide in front of him, John’s life has been turned upside down again by a voicemail from Sherlock in the US, saying he is covertly tracking down the remains of Moriarty’s network, and asking John to join him. Two days on, John is on his way to meet Sherlock in Malta. Everything seems to have changed between them: not only is Sherlock being overtly affectionate in his texts, but he quite explicitly wants sex. But there’s just one problem (apart from the small matter of the international assassins etc): Sherlock’s behaviour is getting steadily stranger, even by his standards. John starts to worry his friend may be on drugs again…

Reccer's comments: This is a raw, intimate look at bipolar disorder (manic depression) in the context of the aftermath of The Reichenbach Fall. The insights to Sherlock's thought processes and states of mind as he see-saws between highs and lows are in turns fascinating, exhilarating, and devastating.

Excerpt from part 1... )

When Sherlock realizes he needs John's help - both to complete his quest and to get a handle on what is happening to his brain - we get to see the other side of the picture, with John struggling to deal with everything Sherlock is throwing at him. Not only his illness and the mortal danger they find themselves in, but the new aspect of a sexual relationship - and one shaped by BDSM practices at that.

The series is a whirlwind of sex, danger, murder, mistakes, and through it all, unwavering love and devotion. One of my favorites.
[identity profile] phoenixfalls.livejournal.com
Title: In Practice
Author: inlovewithnight
Pairing: Gen Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson
Length: 1,494 words
Rating: Not rated by author; I’d put it at Teen for non-sexual D/s content
Warnings: None apply
Verse: Elementary
Author's summary: Determining their edges, how they orient to each other, how they fit, is more engrossing than she thought it would be.

Reccer's comments: Elementary-verse Sherlock is as close to canonically submissive as U.S. network television is likely to get, and so back during season one when Joan & Sherlock’s relationship was solid, there was a trend towards writing them delving into a BDSM relationship. This fic is one of the best to come out of that trend, showing Joan feeling out her role as Sherlock’s Domme.

It’s deep in Joan’s perspective, wonderfully dry; neither character is much given to heart-to-hearts, of course, so the negotiation all takes place between the lines and off-screen; and it’s one of the rare D/s relationships that is entirely platonic, Sherlock needing to submit and Joan enjoying puzzling out how to dominate him with no hint of either romantic or sexual interest. There’s also just the slightest bit of humor about their interactions, totally in keeping with their dynamic during season one, and rounding out a thoroughly satisfying picture of their developing relationship.
[identity profile] holyfant.livejournal.com
Title: Catalyst and Caryatid
Author: Evith Winter Grey (wintergrey)
Pairing: Irene/Molly
Length: entire series 884 words (4 x 221)
Rating: Teen or Mature
Warnings: no archive warnings apply; no spoilers for S3
Verse: BBC

Author's summary: "Catalyst: a chemical used to provoke a reaction—cannot be consumed by that reaction but may be inhibited, deactivated, or destroyed by secondary processes.

Caryatid: a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support—karyatides: "maidens of Karyai", worshippers of the goddess Artemis."

Every ficlet has its own summary, as well.


Reccer's comments: These ficlets are exercises in restraint. Every word had been chosen, weighed and found satisfying. It literally only takes a couple of minutes to read all of the ficlets currently in this series, and together they are not even a thousand words long, but I have rarely before been as thoroughly convinced of a pairing and as overcome by the quiet beauty of prose. If you are in any way interested in these characters and what would happen if they ever met, this is very warmly recommended!
[identity profile] bowl-of-glow.livejournal.com
Title: He's Mad That Trusts in the Tameness of a Wolf
Author: cyerus
Pairing: Irene Adler/John Watson
Length: 2316
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Rape/Non-con
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: Dr John Watson. Moriarty calls him the Puppy. Irene wants to play with him.

Reccer's comments: This is a pairing you don't see often - I wish there was more Irene in this fandom. I love how Irene and John both show their dangerous side here. A dark, interesting fic.

Excerpt: He ignores her and pulls his trousers on, wincing slightly. It's only when he's fully-clothed, hideous jumper and all, that he speaks for the first time. "The mobile?"

"I'll have it sent to you."

"And I should just take you at your word?"

Irene waves a hand from where she's reclining on the bed. "You don't have any other choice."

He takes a deep, shuddering breath. Slowly, deliberately, he stalks towards her and reaches for her face. Irene wonders if he's going to hit her. But no, he grasps her chin with the tips of his fingers, as light and careful as a lover. He brings his head alongside hers, lips brushing her ear.

His voice is a soft rumble, almost seductive. "If I see you again, if you try to harm Sherlock in any way, I will kill you."

"Always the faithful pet." Irene tilts her head back, exposing her neck. Dangerous to do so, with his teeth and hands so near. Perhaps he can see her pulse in her neck, fluttering like a trapped moth. "He doesn't deserve you."

[identity profile] bowl-of-glow.livejournal.com
Title: Never Did Run Smooth
Author: daasgrrl
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 6778 words
Rating: Explicit
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: The course of true love mildly kinky sex never did run smooth. An experiment in fluff and awkwardness.


Reccer's comments: Sherlock decides he and John could spice up their sex life a bit. Things don’t go quite as planned.

This is one of those fics I bookmarked and like to re-read every once in a while. It’s both sexy and humorous (it contains one of my all-time favorite lines - the one about the kidney, it gets me every time; if you’ve read it you’ll know which one I mean), and still sweet and deliciously awkward in places. I love how Sherlock acts in typical Sherlockian fashion, being bossy and expecting things to work because “well, it’s only logical”, and how John isn’t quite convinced but decides to humor him and acts as a loving and considerate partner throughout. The role reversal at the end is the icing on the cake.

“You were in the army for three years, so you’re obviously well accustomed to taking orders. Additionally, in the time I’ve known you, you’ve proved yourself capable of following them with reasonable competence.” John glares at him, which Sherlock blithely ignores. “And you aren’t fundamentally averse to taking on a subordinate role – you did just go and do the shopping, after all.”

“Only because some of us actually like to eat once in a while. Not because you asked me to. Because you didn’t,” John points out. His voice comes out remarkably calm and even, considering just how much Sherlock is pissing him off right now.

Sherlock airily waves the qualification aside. “I’m just demonstrating how obvious an extrapolation it is. You’ll be fine. Just pretend we’re on a case.”

“A case… where I’m aiming to catch some murderer by having sex with you. While letting you boss me about.”

“It’s the principle we’re discussing here, John. You really are being extraordinarily difficult about this.”

“And what exactly do I get out of your little power trip? God, it’s finally happened. You’ve turned into your brother.”

“John!” Sherlock manages to look simultaneously disgusted and horrified. “Take that back!”
[identity profile] chapbook.livejournal.com
Title: Chez les bêtes
Author: breathedout
Pairing: Irene Adler/Various, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette/Mathilde de Morny
Length: 12,923
Rating: E
Warnings: Underage Sex
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Le Havre, 1908. The Child is mother of the Woman.

Reccer's comments: BBC's version of Irene Adler is a character I've had problems connecting with (unlike Doyle's Irene), primarily because the writing for ASiB is chaotic and full of holes, leaving us with an Irene who to me feels more like a symbol than a fully realized personality. In contrast, BreathedOut's brilliant history AU, which moves Irene to early-twentieth-century England and France, presents the reader with a raw and ferocious young woman who feels very human, with her artistic talents, youthful uncertainty, love for her mother, and her capacity to manipulate. The cultural beliefs of turn-of-the-century working- and middle-class Britons are on full display here, demonstrating how very difficult it is for a working-class woman, even one with Irene's abilities, to struggle against these values and expectations. As a result, Irene's attempts to escape the expected routine of grueling, poorly paid, and often unsafe "respectable" work, as well as the conventional roles of wife and mother are all the more powerful.

Alternating the past and present throughout the story effectively shows how "The Woman" came to be in a process neither direct nor easy. It's that structure that allows Irene's epiphany to feel earned rather than a bolt out of the blue. I look forward to seeing this Irene meet Violet Hour's Sherlock and John in the next installment of the Unreal Histories series. I suspect it will be a memorable confrontation!

Excerpt: Read more )
[identity profile] re-white.livejournal.com
Title: The Doctor in the Boot
Author: mugenmine
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 10633
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Dubious Consent, Some Violence, Bondage, Discipline
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: “Breathe, John,” Sherlock said.
John exhaled and closed his eyes and tried to resign himself for the tenth time to the fact that he had to endure it now, that this was out of his authority, and that this would only be over when Sherlock determined it so. He inhaled through his nose and exhaled through his mouth slowly, until he gained control of his breath and his heart, and managed to settle again.
Reccer's comments: Reading this fic was one of those 2AM accidents that sometimes happens when you're crawling the ao3 looking for something, anything, surprising and good to read. This fic is both. This is one of the few D/s stories I've read that doesn't sacrifice character for titillation. Sherlock doesn't descend into an awful caricature of toppy sadism, and he isn't a surprise sex god. He's over-analytical, impetuous and makes mistakes - in short, Mugenmine's Sherlock!voice is wonderfully in character. Her take on John and what he needs and how he lets himself have it is really captivating. From the start she pulls you right inside his head and *keeps* you there - as unsure, and searching as he is. The end result is the best sort of emotional hang over.

The Doctor in the Boot is the second part of what is technically a series, but the author has commented that it can be read as a stand alone, and I agree.

If you give this a shot, please do be aware of the warnings.
[identity profile] holyfant.livejournal.com
Title: The Woman, in Portrait
Author: Cobalt
Pairing: Irene Adler/Kate, Irene Adler/Sherlock Holmes
Length: 605 words
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: What Irene wants, and what she has.
Reccer's comments: In my opinion there is a crippling lack of good Irene fic in the Sherlock BBC fandom, especially stories that also incorporate Kate the maid. This story is so incredibly short you'll spend mere minutes reading it, but the mastery of it lies exactly there: it manages to paint an Irene the reader can feel, can hear in their heads, and can try to understand. Kate makes an appearance that is nearly as brief as her screen time during the show, and yet she comes out of this story as a more developed character whose relationship with Irene has a distinct flavour. I am always in awe of people who manage to give the reader a glimpse of three-dimensional characters in few words, which means I am incredibly an awe of what cobalt does here. This is also an instance of very successful use of the second person singular - I'm generally not much of a fan of stories that seem to be addressing me, but here it is delivered elegantly and deftly. A real gem.

Excerpt )
[identity profile] pennypaperbrain.livejournal.com
Title: That Tired Old Metaphor, Alchemy
Author: anactoria
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 10,163
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none needed by comm rules
Verse: BBC Sherlock

Author's summary: I want this, all of it. I want to dissect you and know all of you; I want to caress the dark and ugly parts just like the red muscle of your heart; I’ll hold them in my hands and wonder at them, because they are so much rarer than mundane goodness. So much more interesting, and that’s why you can’t let anyone else have them, only me.

Reccer's comments: This is recently posted, and very lovely. It immediately became one of my favourite BDSM fics in the fandom. It’s based around quite a familiar trope – the idea that sub!Sherlock likes pain/submission because it makes his mind go quiet – but where lighter fics use that as an endpoint, it’s really just the starting point for anactoria’s deep-sea dive into the subject. The whole story is Sherlock POV (the narration beautifully taut and in-character), and takes us through an intense real-time bloodplay scene which is punctuated with flashbacks that cumulatively show how John and Sherlock’s relationship developed through caution and misunderstanding into something so mutually vital. Throughout, Sherlock is both obviously compelled by need and also his unstinting, caustic self.

Excerpt )
[identity profile] pennypaperbrain.livejournal.com
Title: These Days You Don’t Know How to March
Author: cranberryloops
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 10,341
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none needed by comm rules
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: It's not easy to be Sherlock's. Saved. Owned. Loved. These aren't words John ever thought to associate with himself.

Reccer's comments: This is the kind of love story where one or both parties are desperate and damaged but find stability in each other. In this case, John is the more obviously damaged one, floundering after his return from Afghanistan, in search of a place to emotionally and physically belong. Cranberryloops’ dom Sherlock is compelling too, sharp and abstract and palpably devoted to John.
John is sent back to Afghanistan for part of the story, so he gets to keep that side of himself, and reconcile it with his increasing attachment to Sherlock. The story as a whole charts John’s progress as he (re)learns to be all his apparently contradictory selves, and it explores how, in a tenable BDSM relationship as in any other, responsibility goes both ways.
One of my favourite things about Sherlock fandom is the volume of thinky BDSM fic and IMO this is one of the best. It’s not extensively and graphically sexual, but the entire thing is suffused with sexuality and need. Many of the sex scenes are just beautiful, suggestive, one-line vignettes, and everything that happens is fully plugged in to the characters’ complex, entirely real psychologies. Nothing is simple, John Watson, even if you think you are.

Excerpt )
[identity profile] misplaced-exile.livejournal.com
Title: A String of Empty Houses
Author: [livejournal.com profile] manic_intent
Pairing: Sebastian Moran/Jim Moriarty
Length: 10 088 words
Rating: Mature
Verse: Sherlock BBC / ACD book 'verse
Author's summary: Sebastian is busy getting his lip split open when he first meets Jim Moriarty.

Reccer's comments: I first fell into this pairing after reading this rec, and the reccers comments pretty much sums up for me why this pairing works. The Sebastian Moran in "A String of Empty Houses" is now basically my head-canon for the BBC series, and I'm just waiting (hoping/dreaming/praying) for this Sebastian to show up in season 3. An exquisitely written fic with many insightful details (a bunch of it canon, coming from the books) has Sebastian and Jim fleshed out so well, that you basically end up rooting for the bad guys. Sebastian is a beautiful beast, and Jim is beautifully cracked; you will have no difficulty imagining these vignettes of their life running alongside the television episodes up until the Reichenbach Fall. It is also accompanied by a lovely piece of art by dramatis-echo.

Excerpt:

The post-it notes are the worst.

The so-called foremost consulting criminal in the world walks like a cat, and to a mind used to juggling entire illicit empires locks are at best a minor irritation. Often, Sebastian wakes to his SoHo loft littered with tiny, gaudy rectangles. Sometimes they're filled with unrelated quotes drawn from an esoteric range of literature, or arranged in cartoonish smileys. Usually, for some reason that his uncomplicated hunter's mind cannot immediately fathom, they're blank.
[identity profile] eldritchhorrors.livejournal.com
Title: Points of Light
Author: [livejournal.com profile] pennypaperbrain
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 15,000~
Rating: NC-17
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock and John are both damaged people. Gradually they discover how they can help each other to stay alive. And not only stay alive, but live.
Reccer's comments: I'm a sucker for stories where two broken men come together and fall in love. And there is so much to love about this fic. It is extremely well written with a very full use of language. It keeps both John and Sherlock in character, and really explores their motivations with sensitivity and depth, so that the intensity of them coming together keeps ramping up. And when that intensity finally explodes...wow. Amazingly hot, very emotional sex that also manages to be a powerful character study. Penny doesn't skimp on the emotional journey that brings them together, and by the fourth chapter, John & Sherlock, Sherlock & John is inevitable. And brilliant. There is a BDSM component to the story, but I find it quite incidental to the emotional growth between the characters. (And the world can always use more Dom!John and Sub!Sherlock.)

"Sherlock has been chasing a revelation, and the one he has found is not the one he expected. Even while he trains the gun on their enemy and calculations cascade through his head, it’s the sight of John wrapped in semtex that draws his gaze again and again.

Moriarty is a cracked and magnificent mind, but Sherlock already has one of those. John is patience, nightmares, judgement, comfort, anger, touch, dead cabbies, friendship, the promise of sex.

Extraordinary."
[identity profile] getyourguns.livejournal.com
Title: The Ceremony of Innocence (part 4 of The Cold Song series)
Author: [livejournal.com profile] eldritchhorrors
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: ~10,300 this part (~50,000+ total)
Rating: hard R for graphic descriptions of violence (NC-17 other parts)
Verse: BBC
Warnings: See author's warnings for each chapter.
Author's summary: Sherlock is tested to the shattering point, but some things must be broken before they can be fixed, and some things can never remain hidden...especially from ourselves.
And then Sherlock made this noise.

It was a terrible thing. As terrible as the assemblage in front of them. John had last heard that kind of agonized whimper from a five year old boy just outside Kandahar. He’d lost his entire family in a roadside bombing, the only survivor. They’d found him wrapped around his mother, half her head gone, lap a soup of viscera and blood. He’d made that sound, a keening low in the back of his throat, when John had separated him from the corpse.

He’d never have expected it from Sherlock.


Reccer's comments: Tags of this entry are for all parts of the series, not just this one.
The first three parts were rec'd previously here but the writer just posted an additional chapter that is so powerful, it definitely calls for a re-visit to the series. With this series alone, [livejournal.com profile] eldritchhorrors has become a favourite writer. The way in which they incorporate music and language and story into their fic is a tremendous achievement and makes for a very emotionally hard-hitting, dynamic series. [community profile] a_lliteration

Previous chapters:
01. I Hear Those Voices That Will Not Be Drowned
02. Within This Frail Crucible of Light
03. A Light Shines In The Darkness
[identity profile] allonymity.livejournal.com

Title: Under Control Series
Author: rotaryphones

Pairing: Sherlock/John

Length: Two connected fics, ~27,000 words in total
Rating: NC-17

Warnings: None that fit with this comm’s guidelines
Verse: BBC
Author's summary: “You know John, I could hypnotize you if you really want." What followed was an arrangement that John never thought he would be lucky enough to find, and never insane enough to accept.
Reccer's comments: These stories explore a kink I had never encountered before reading this series, and it basically melted my brain.  It’s all done consensually (or as consensually anything that involves hypnotism can be), but I’m still undecided if they skipped over the “safe” and “sane” bits of the power exchange mantra.  The descriptions of hypnotism are insanely hot and disturbing in the best of ways.

But even more than a chance to vicariously explore an unusual kink, these stories offer an amazing characterization of the two men which fits perfectly into canon.   The first story sends us deep into John’s psyche, but even there the glimpses we get of Sherlock show him to be three-dimensional and not unaffected by their game.  The second story gives us Sherlock’s POV and helps fill out the picture.  Highly recommended.

Story 1:  Under Control

Story 2: Down We Go

[identity profile] brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com
Title: Compound a Felony
Author: by [livejournal.com profile] mistyzeo
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Length: 12,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: D/s, spanking, rimming
Verse: ACD canon
Author's summary: Sherlock Holmes knows there is something else about his new flatmate that he hasn't figured out yet. The truth is, it's a compliment to the thing he hasn't figured out about himself. John Watson, however, knows just how to handle the situation.
Reccer's comments: I love stories about partners learning how to develop their relationships to fit new parameters, and I love kink negotiation, so this fic delighted me in those two ways (and many others, besides). I enjoyed seeing Holmes long for something he can't quite name, and Watson is appropriately careful with him as he tries to go about things in just the right way. Mind-melting hotness is intermingled with insightful character development, and all of it is wrapped into a terribly satisfying (and thoroughly entertaining) whole.

See also the sequel, Our Souls in Patience
[identity profile] brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com
Title: Under Control
Author: [livejournal.com profile] rotaryphones
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 22,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Moments of dubcon and possibly PTSD related themes, general warnings for kinky sex involving D/s and hypnosis
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: “You know John, I could hypnotize you if you really want." What followed was an arrangement that John never thought he would be lucky enough to find, and never insane enough to accept.
Reccer's comments: I love stories where kink is used to reveal character insights. This is a taut, sensual look at John’s mind-control kink, and the consequences thereof. Sherlock’s very in-character response was delightful to watch, and [livejournal.com profile] rotaryphones kept me (and John) guessing at how far the game might go. There are several intense moments that had me on the edge of my seat, and I definitely stayed up past my bedtime to finish this: truly my seal of approval for a story of this length.


“Wonderful,” Sherlock was saying. “You’ve been so good and cooperative. You like the way that makes you feel, don’t you?”

“Yes,” John whispered, basking in the praise. He felt warm and comfortable and obedient, ready and open to whatever came next.

“Then I think you deserve a reward. Would you like that? Something to make you feel even better than you do now?”
[identity profile] stupidmuse-hate.livejournal.com
Title: How to Tame Your Dragon
Author: Mad_Maudlin
Pairing: John Watson & dragon!Sherlock Holmes
Length: 12859
Rating: R
Warnings: dubcon, mindfuck, D/s themes, emotional manipulation, collars
Verse: AU Sherlock BBC

Author Summary: Sorcerer!Sherlock sets out to trap himself a pet dragon. Said dragon turns out to be far more interesting than he initially anticipated.

Reccer's Comments: I will say this right now--there is a reason that there is not a bestiality warning on this fic. That said, I loved this fic. It took me completely by surprise. I thought--oh dear, Sherlock finds a dragon, does some experiments on it, leaves it behind, etc. etc....But that wasn't what I got at all. What I got was Sherlock growing as a character. What I got was a fully fledged alternate universe in which Sherlock and John reside--but very few people intrude upon their life specifically. This is not a case-fic. This is something between Sherlock and John (with Mrs. Hudson, Mycroft, and occasionally Lestrade tossed in the mix) in which the boys grow closer and figure out what they mean to each other.I loved this fic (and read it twice).
[identity profile] stupidmuse-hate.livejournal.com
Title: With Laurel They Go
Author: sevenses
Pairing: 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.
[identity profile] brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com
Title: Trust Issues
Author: [livejournal.com profile] thisprettywren
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: ~9000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock devises a trust exercise. All John has to do is follow instructions; if there's anyone who knows how to give instructions, it's Sherlock.
Reccer's comments: When I finished reading this, I immediately went back to the beginning and read it again. Trust--the growth and the betrayal of it--plays such an important part in the Sherlock/John relationship, and [livejournal.com profile] thisprettywren exploits those themes beautifully here. She paints a mind-meltingly hot picture of John confronting his issues; John is terrifically brave, and Sherlock appropriately brilliant throughout the whole exercise.

"Good," he told John. "Don't move."

John did his best not to sway when Sherlock pulled away; he was back almost immediately, two cool fingers pressing against the underside of John's chin to tip his head up.

"You're doing very well so far," Sherlock told him, his voice low and dark with promise.
[identity profile] brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com
Title: Numina
Author: [livejournal.com profile] thisprettywren
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 10,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: BDSM, knifeplay, breathplay, self-destructive behaviour, general darkness
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John's never really been one to shy away from responsibility, but some are easier than others.
Reccer's comments: This fascinating, suspenseful, and tender tale examines what too much being at home does to Sherlock, then turns 221b Baker Street into a small battlefield as Sherlock races to solve an important puzzle.


So, John had left tools. Clues. Something. Where, though? He turned, looking for obvious signs (disturbances, things shifted from where they’d been that morning) but he couldn’t see anything, but he’d been distracted, wrapped up inside his head—the whole problem, stupid— couldn’t remember how things had been before now that it finally mattered.

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