221b_recs | Entries tagged with pairing: lestrade/sh

biswholocked.livejournal.com

Title: No Such Thing As Company
Author: Lake (beyond_belief)
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Lestrade
Length: 3547
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: It becomes sort of routine, after that. Sherlock shows up most nights, but not all. Some, he sits in Greg's usual chair with Greg's laptop and does God knows what on the internet while Greg lies on the sofa watching Graham Norton. Some nights, Sherlock sits reading a book, but next to Greg on the sofa while Greg watches Graham Norton.
Reccer's comments: I really like this story's simplicity. After Dartmoor, Sherlock and Lestrade's relationship evolves into something very different than before. The relationship feels very organic and honest, in that it's not easy, and it's not simple, but there is a sense of mutual respect underneath their complicated feelings. Also, the dialogue between John and Lestrade at the beginning and end of the fic is wonderfully open, in a way that I think holds true to the rawness of grief.

cherrytide.livejournal.com

Title:The Elephant on the Roof
Author:

frozen_delight
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Length:7563 words
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings:Suicide ideation
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary:For a man who’s scared of heights, Lestrade has taken to spending an awful lot of time up on rooftops.

Reccer's comments: Lestrade accompanying Sherlock on various rooftop jaunts... this story skillfully incorporates the never-shot scene of Sherlock and Lestrade on the roof as well as giving an insight into Sherlock and Lestrade's relationship over the years, Lestrade as a steady, supportive but often ignored presence as Sherlock takes his tumultuous journey from troubled young drug addict, to successful detective, to someone who finally has the maturity to rebuild his life and his friendships post-Reichenbach. It's a sweet gentle romance, and a deft character study of both men.

andrea-deer.livejournal.com

Title: General Rules (And How You Broke Them) (on AO3)
Author: taylorpotato
Pairing: Lestrade/Sherlock
Length: 4.452 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: N/A
Verse: BBC
Author's summary: Out of all the Alphas in the world, Sherlock has only met one that he finds tolerable—Detective Inspector Lestrade. Actually, tolerable might not be a strong enough word. It's possible that Sherlock likes Lestrade a lot more than he should, but that's not something he would admit out loud. At least, not until he's in heat.

Reccer's comments: This is an AU, Alpha/Beta/Omega verse AU, to be precise. One of my all time favourites in this verse. What wins this fic for me is that A/B/O AUs sort of tempt writers into dub-con (at the very least). Some readers prefer these AUs for that reason and obviously there's nothing wrong with that, however I love it when there's an AU, which is written in a certain way, uses certain cliches, and the author of the fic goes: yeah, and how about I change it a bit? And I'm a great fan of those AUs in which at least one of the characters, to stay in character, can't follow AU cliche.

So, basically: Gregory Lestrade is above your silly A/B/O cliches and he is going to do the right thing.

scfrankles.livejournal.com

Title: Lighting Up
Author: Persiflager
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Length: 5472
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: N/A
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Lestrade stubbed his cigarette out on the stone and stood up decisively. “Do you want to get out of here?”

Reccer's comments: This fic is set just after John and Mary’s wedding, and was in fact written before series 3 was broadcast. Definitely not an unknown and unappreciated fic but it’s possible some readers gave it a miss because it wasn’t their preferred pairing. And I would recommend trying it, even if you’re a diehard Johnlock shipper. To start with, it’s not as straightforward as “Sherlock thinks of John as a friend but is instead attracted to Lestrade”, and it’s not what I’ve seen described as a “silver medal” fic—”Sherlock can’t have John so he gets Lestrade”. The story is a great deal more subtle than that. Sherlock says he isn’t interested in John in this way, but this may or may not be true. However, though Lestrade may possibly not be his first choice, neither is Lestrade second best. The mid-part of the story looks back at when they first met and how their relationship developed—an attraction and a connection always being there.

The story is told in third person but from Sherlock’s POV. Nothing is spelt out for us though—there’s a lot we have to read between the lines, which maybe reflects Sherlock’s lack of awareness and lack of openness when it comes to dealing with the subject of emotions.

The sex in the fic is deeply erotic, and feels realistic and in character. But there’s more to this story than simply sex—it has a lot of heart. For me, it’s essentially a piece about two men each getting a second chance.

ficklepig.livejournal.com

Title: The Operative Word
Author: peevee
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Length: 2,559
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: I do not whine and squeal,” Greg protested, immediately recalling several intensely pleasurable incidents where both whining and squealing may have occurred. “And we’re not fucking in my office, for fuck’s sake!” He remembered at the last moment to whisper. “You offered blowjobs!”

Reccer's comments: It feels like cheating to rec

peeveee (note extra "e" in LJ handle). Maybe because it's just too easy. My toes curl and I get hot in the face when I get a fic announcement in my inbox. It makes no difference what the pairing is, it will be in character, funny, to-the-point, and blazing hot. What I've heard referred to indelicately as a "chair slider."

Summary: Sherlock is a prick to Greg and then fucks him into the floorboards. Into the industrial carpet. Whatever.

Ow, I may have sprained my foot.

persiflager.livejournal.com

Title: for the love of a city
Author:

radialarch
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Various, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/London
Length: 2,321
Rating: Mature
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: London is possessive; Sherlock's just frustrated. (Alternatively, five times London cockblocked Sherlock Holmes and one time it didn’t.)

Reccer's comments: This is the perfect Sherlock/London fic. It consists of five sharply polished vignettes, each of which tells the story of a near-miss encounter between Sherlock and a different character, and one gorgeous epilogue where he finally gets lucky. It's funny, hot, weird and achingly tense.

Raz stares at his fever-bright eyes before Sherlock’s mouth crashes into his; there’s the taste of smoke and teeth catching at his lips, and when Raz pulls away to breathe Sherlock makes a low, disappointed noise in his throat.

“All right,” Raz says thoughtfully, unlocking the door. “But no fucking.”

“What, then?” Sherlock demands, even as he’s crowding inside.

“Something better,” Raz says.

(Full disclosure: I was one of the beta-readers for this story, although I didn't contribute much more than 'yes this is excellent'.)

what-alchemy.livejournal.com

Title: Consolation
Author:

mildred_bobbin
Pairing: Sherlock/Lestrade, unrequited Sherlock/John
Length: 18,000 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: Faced with spending Christmas Day alone watching Christmas repeats on telly, Greg Lestrade decides to check on Sherlock, because he’s alone too, isn’t he?

Reccer's comments: I come back to this one a lot because I love the progression of Sherlock's relationship with Lestrade and the gradual evolution of his feelings for him. Lestrade does start out as the titular "consolation" - what Sherlock can have instead of John, what Sherlock can use to spite John - but he doesn't remain that way, though the road there is not smooth. Both Lestrade and Sherlock feel very true here, and tender, and in character. The climactic conversation, many long years in the making, always leaves me clutching my hands together under my chin. This story is, in my opinion, the definitive non-pre-canon Sherlock/Lestrade, and I always come away wishing I could stay in the story just a little longer.

tryfanstone.livejournal.com

Title: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blow-Job (Remix of Object of Focus by

Jain)
Author:

unovis
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Length: 2687 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: It's a remix. Thirteen different ways, as it says, structure and title borrowed from "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens. One part in particular borrows directly from that poem.
Interesting vignettes on their own, but the different approaches make more sense if you read the story it's based on.

Reccer's comments: I'm fairly sure it's not bad form to rec a mod's work? This gorgeous piece of writing covers so much ground in so few words. It's witty, wise, elegaic, colloquial, funny, and so perfectly structured the thought behind the words is breathtaking. I loved this when it was written and I still love it now.

swissmarg

Title: In Darkness, Light
Author:

kryptaria
Pairing: John/Sherlock, Lestrade/Sherlock
Length: 12,981 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Non-canon character death
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary:
"One day, we'll be standing around a body, and Sherlock Holmes will be the one that put it there..."
"Why would he do that?"
"Because he's a psychopath, and psychopaths get bored."
Sally Donovan got it wrong.

Reccer's comments: The hook of this story is that Lestrade is a serial killer. The interesting part comes when he confesses it to Sherlock and John. This leads to a fantastic exploration of Sherlock's character and the complicated dynamics of the relationships amongst the three men. The climax is pure genius, perfect in so many ways.

One thing I really like about this story is that it shows Sherlock both as a good man and a very not-good man. Sherlock's darkness is there. All it needs is something to set it free... or something to contain it.

Excerpt:

Sherlock’s not normal, so Greg doesn’t try anything the way he would with John. There’s no attempt at bargaining or explanation or excuses. Instead, he takes a breath, and says, “I killed a woman last night. I need you to get rid of the body for me, before it’s found.”

Just a note, the M rating is due to graphic descriptions of pre-meditated murder, not sex. It's not gory, but it might be distressing.

unovis.livejournal.com

Title: First Breath
Author:

havocs_roman
Pairing: Sherlock/Lestrade
Length: 1229 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Loneliness and shared slumber are an odd combination.

Reccer's comments: To be honest, I don't know whose home this takes place in. When I first read it, I assumed it was Lestrade's, as Sherlock in Lestrade's home is a particular love of mine. But maybe not. It's someone's home, and it takes place entirely on a couch, which is home for Sherlock, or at least home base.

The author calls this a little "snapshot" of the two of them, without context. I'm not sure where they are, why Lestrade's hair and collar are wet, or why Sherlock is "wrecked." It might be nice to know. I'm reccing it for the writing, though, for the conceit, and for the sheer smoky sexiness here, where Lestrade is drawn to Sherlock's breathing.

Contains tobacco, the really good cigarettes. You might doubt how well this could work if it were described outside the story.

the-thinktank.livejournal.com

Title: They're Gonna be All Right
Author: impishtubist
Pairing: Possible Asexual Sherlock/Lestrade
Length: 5,100
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John tries to figure out just what Sherlock and Lestrade are to one another and realizes that not everything can be so neatly defined. A series of moments.

Reccer's comments: I'm on a definite Lestrade fix at the moment and there are definitely not enough Sherlock/Lestrade fics out there; the tv series just set these two up so perfectly for delving into their complex relationship. Here

impishtubist brilliantly uses John as the outsider to try and get to the bottom of just what the relationship is between Sherlock and Lestrade through a series of short vignettes and with very believable interactions. And the brilliant thing about this fic is even at the end, you are still trying to work it out.

shefa.livejournal.com

Title: The Top Secret Live Journal of Sherlock Holmes

Author:

woe_in_a_hoodie

Pairing: John/Sherlock, John/Lestrade, Sherlock/Lestrade, John/Sherlock/Lestrade

Length: not sure... very long, though, thank goodness :)

Rating: R-NC-17 depending on the chapter

Warnings: Cursing everywhere, sexual content, 4chan makes an appearance, a tiny flash of incest due to Rule 34, drug use (nicotine patches), and 'Real People Slash' in that in this universe, Sherlock has an RPS fandom that follows his site and John's blog.
Notes: THIS FIC IS PURPOSEFULLY ABSURD. (Thought you ought to know.) Much love to Louise Rennison, author of the Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series of novels, which are the main inspiration for this work.

Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: Sherlock has a Livejournal, which he updates constantly via his mobile phone and netbook. Everyone offline thinks that he's this stoic super-genius, when in reality he's a bonkers super-genius.

Reccer's comments: Warning. Don't read this fic in the presence of children or anybody who you don't want reading over your shoulder and asking, "WHAT on EARTH is so incredibly FUNNY?" Seriously. You don't want to have to explain cock spats to an 11 year old. Really, you don't. (For the record, I didn't mention cock spats to my 11 year old, in case you were worried. I did however have to stop reading the story b/c I couldn't stop laughing and he wasn't going to let that go without explanation.)

This is one of the funniest, zaniest, laugh-out-loud, cleverest stories I've read in fandom. It's cleverly done and Sherlock's voice is spot on and, at the same time, skewed just that tiny bit off so that he's absolutely, undoubtedly insane. In a good way.

When you need a pick me up, read this story. You'll laugh so hard, you'll cry.

Current Mood: amused

sussexdowns.livejournal.com

Title:Coffee
Author:

fengirl88
Pairing: Sherlock/Lestrade
Length: 221 words
Rating: PG-13
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: He doesn't like breakfast, but this is perfect.

Reccer's comments: I. LOVE. 221B*. FICLETS. I love basically any kitchy fandom-specifc drabble-type fic, really, especially when they're done as well as this one is. Actually, I'm pretty sure this was my gateway drug to shipping S/L :) For such a short-format story, this seems really...I guess expansive is the word.

(*221b ficlets, for those unfamiliar with the format, are short fics, 221 words, last word beginning with the letter b.)

ginbitch.livejournal.com

Title: If they loved John and Sherlock like we love John and Sherlock - two parodies.
Author: P.G. Wodehouse and Dorothy Parker (of course!) - as dictated to

warriorbot
Rating: PG - fittingly enough
Wordcount: ~1,000
Verse: ACD or Sherlock AU crossover
Summary: Slash in the style of my favourite writer and my favourite poet
Warnings: If you don't know and love the works of P.G. Wodehouse or Dorothy Parker you may well hate these. If you do know and love the works of P.G. Wodehouse or Dorothy Parker you will definitely hate these...
Pairing: John/Sherlock, Sherlock/Lestrade
Fic is here: http://warriorbot.livejournal.com/10584.html

Reccer's comments: After all the angst I've been reccing, some light relief! I should come clean and confess that this was first fic that I beta'd - but what a fic! Beautiful, beautiful Wodehouse parodie and a Dorothy Parker epigram that I warn you sticks in the mind like the worst earworm!

Short, sweet and gorgeous, these are real gems!

ginbitch.livejournal.com

Title: The Old Bad Songs
Author:

fengirl88
Pairing: Lestrade/Sherlock, John/Sherlock, Lestrade/Maurice (other character, from EM Forster and the Merchange Ivory film.)
Length: 21000 words. A very long fic but a _really_ good one...
Author's summary: Lestrade becomes enmeshed in a blackmail case he's working, and has to turn to Sherlock for help. The title of the story is a translation of a Schumann song title, Die Alten Bösen Lieder, and will make sense eventually. Individual chapter titles are taken from songs this Lestrade knew in his youth.
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: Angst, UST, and bratty behaviour (mostly from Sherlock)
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: This fic is _epic_. It was one of the first WIPs to get me hooked in the BBC verse. The scope, the scale, the tension! It has a kick-arse case fic, Lestrade's backstory, a stunning trip through gay history and MAURICE!!! E M Forster's Maurice, known to many from the Merchant Ivory film. He and Lestrade remain my OTP! In short, a dark, tense thriller of a piece. Oh, and don't miss the epilogue...

petronia.livejournal.com

Title: Virginity series
Author:

thinkpink20
Pairing: Sherlock/Lestrade
Length: 4 stories (27,254 words in total)
Author's summary: Sherlock and Lestrade spend the evening together, and Lestrade learns some things he never knew.
Rating: NC17 overall
Warnings: None for content, but WIP
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Reccer's comments: In which Lestrade sleeps with Sherlock (first time! quick learner though) with what in retrospect might be seen as a certain lack of foresight, and things get emotionally complicated... on Lestrade's end. Nil sign of stoic pining from Lestrade in canon, I have to say (for anyone, let alone Sherlock), but if he were to, I imagine it would come off like this. There's a likeable, unforced naturalism to the characterization, a light touch that keeps the stories from devolving into OTT angst. The sex is really hot and intimate too, which helps. :D

Links go to

sherlockbbc posts. The author hasn't explicitly continued the series to a resolution that I know of, but she's written other, fluffier stories that may fall somewhere within the same timeline.

Virginity
The Morning After
Brighton Morning (NB: must add author's fic journal for access)
Interlude

BONUS: Delicate (

thinkpink20's S/L fanmix)

mariska-lee.livejournal.com

Title: E
Author:

sarren
Pairing: Sherlock/Lestrade
Length: 8,259 words
Author's summary: Lestrade met Sherlock in 2005. Or at least, that's what he tells people.

Rating: Explicit. NC-17. Mature.
Warnings: M/M sex, and a brief mention of drugs.
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: In "A Study in Pink", Lestrade mentions that he's known Sherlock for five years. E offers a possible backstory for that - one starting when Lestrade responds to an anonymous text message to meet the sender in a gay club. Sex and crime-stopping ensue. But after that night, there's nothing for months, until he hears again from his one-night stand.

I love the way this story unfolds. Over time, Sherlock becomes a more prominent presence in Lestrade's life and thoughts - and in his work, as Sherlock's text-message-hints to Lestrade have begun to pave the way for his role as a consulting detective and Lestrade calls him in on a case.

This story contains everything - Lestrade's and Sherlock's voices are very much IC, there's sex, a case fic, and one of the most brilliantly funny phone calls ever, in which we learn the meaning of the name Sherlock, as well as why Sherlock will always fail at phone sex.

E, by Sarren

unovis.livejournal.com

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Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have been abbreviated as SH and JW in pairings and some other places (e.g., content: sick jw). Since this recs comm is open to all versions of Sherlock Holmes, it seemed the simplest way to identify the characters. Lestrade, Gregson, and Dimmock are listed as "inspector" following ACD book canon, and Moriarty is listed only once by his (their) surname alone. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is abbreviated throughout as ACD.

*We won't add a category for "slash-if-you-squint" or similar invitations for the reader to see subtext in a story. If the author hasn't labeled her work as slash, then it's genre: gen or genre: friendship.

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Entries tagged with pairing: lestrade/sh

Fic Rec: No Such Thing As Company

Fic Rec: The Elephant on the Roof

fic rec: General Rules (And How You Broke Them)

Fic Rec: Lighting Up

Fic Rec: The Operative Word

Fic Rec: for the love of a city

Fic Rec: Consolation

Fic Rec: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blow-Job

Fic Rec: In Darkness, Light

Fic Rec: First Breath, by havocs_roman

Fic: They're Gonna be All Right

Fic Rec: The Top Secret LiveJournal of Sherlock Holmes by woe_in_a_hoodie

A short one for Sherlock rec day :)

Fic Rec: If they loved John and Sherlock... (Crack, PG, by warriorbot)

Fic Rec: The Old Bad Songs by Fengirl88

Fic (and fanmix) rec: Virginity/Brighton Morning series, by thinkpink20

Fic Rec: E, by Sarren

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