What It Is to Burn
Title: What It Is to Burn on LJ. Also on AO3 here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/187571
Author: foxxcub
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Length: 9300 words
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none, really. The rating says it all.
Verse: Ritchie films
Author's summary: Adaptability was part of the human condition. There was not a living creature on earth who did not possess the inherent need to change and grow with their surroundings. Set immediately following the events of the movie--without the whole Moriarty thing.
Reccer's comments: I seem to have found some real gems in the Ritchie-verse this time. Normally, that's not my favourite corner of the fandom, but Foxxcub is a genius at portraying the two of them in this 'verse.
After Watson's marriage, Holmes tries to condition himself to live without John Watson. Needless to say, that doesn't work well for him, especially after he is shot and is forced to admit his attraction to Watson while he is drugged and in hospital.
Foxxcub describes despair very, very well. I don't like fics in which the two of them deceive Mary, or worse, disregard her existence. Watson is far too much of a gentleman to treat her like that, even if Holmes would be capable of it. Here, the two of them are so destined to be together, like Romeo and Juliet, that's there's really no help for it, but still Watson secures Mary's consent and the fic ends on a tentative, but hopeful note.
Author: foxxcub
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Length: 9300 words
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none, really. The rating says it all.
Verse: Ritchie films
Author's summary: Adaptability was part of the human condition. There was not a living creature on earth who did not possess the inherent need to change and grow with their surroundings. Set immediately following the events of the movie--without the whole Moriarty thing.
Reccer's comments: I seem to have found some real gems in the Ritchie-verse this time. Normally, that's not my favourite corner of the fandom, but Foxxcub is a genius at portraying the two of them in this 'verse.
After Watson's marriage, Holmes tries to condition himself to live without John Watson. Needless to say, that doesn't work well for him, especially after he is shot and is forced to admit his attraction to Watson while he is drugged and in hospital.
Foxxcub describes despair very, very well. I don't like fics in which the two of them deceive Mary, or worse, disregard her existence. Watson is far too much of a gentleman to treat her like that, even if Holmes would be capable of it. Here, the two of them are so destined to be together, like Romeo and Juliet, that's there's really no help for it, but still Watson secures Mary's consent and the fic ends on a tentative, but hopeful note.