Series Rec: Four Corners of the Western World
Title: Four Corners of the Western World
Author:
pennypaperbrain
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:
Speed and power possess him, and they are useful. Perhaps logic is not the key to this particular puzzle. He is a lone man with a gun, like in John’s ridiculous films. He will pursue his adversary to a quiet place then shoot him in the chest, fast and slick, with no option to back down. Simplicity is the answer. Graf will surely party into the night so Sherlock will go out mid-morning and resume the hunt. When the deed is done he has only to return to his rental car, drive out into the desert and burn his ridiculous disguise of hat, platform shoes and cotton wool cheek pads, leave the Yaris in Salt Lake City and fly to Europe in search of Zagami and Kolyvanov. In search of John.
A simple plan. As good as complete already. Sherlock reviews each step, pacing his hotel room, pacing and turning, fire in his brain, hurling the pillows from the bed to the floor, pacing and clutching his forehead, nails digging into his scalp to calm down, he is in control of this, he is outmanoeuvring the fear, he is riding it. He is a machine. A part of his mind reports incongruities, but he has no time to indulge it. He is not a machine. John loves him. John loves him. And Sherlock…
Sherlock paces his motel room until dawn.
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.
Author:
pennypaperbrain
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:
Speed and power possess him, and they are useful. Perhaps logic is not the key to this particular puzzle. He is a lone man with a gun, like in John’s ridiculous films. He will pursue his adversary to a quiet place then shoot him in the chest, fast and slick, with no option to back down. Simplicity is the answer. Graf will surely party into the night so Sherlock will go out mid-morning and resume the hunt. When the deed is done he has only to return to his rental car, drive out into the desert and burn his ridiculous disguise of hat, platform shoes and cotton wool cheek pads, leave the Yaris in Salt Lake City and fly to Europe in search of Zagami and Kolyvanov. In search of John.
A simple plan. As good as complete already. Sherlock reviews each step, pacing his hotel room, pacing and turning, fire in his brain, hurling the pillows from the bed to the floor, pacing and clutching his forehead, nails digging into his scalp to calm down, he is in control of this, he is outmanoeuvring the fear, he is riding it. He is a machine. A part of his mind reports incongruities, but he has no time to indulge it. He is not a machine. John loves him. John loves him. And Sherlock…
Sherlock paces his motel room until dawn.
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.