Fic: Little Boy Bue and the Man in the Moon - House-Sherlock crossover - 9/?

[ariana_paris]

Title: Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon
Writer: Ariana
Alternate links: Catch up with the whole story on AO3
Status of work: WIP - chapter 9 out of ~13
Characters and/or pairings: Sherlock/John, Sherlock/Irene, Sherlock/OFC, most of the casts of House M.D. and Sherlock (BBC)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers for House season 8 and Sherlock

Comments

[mildred_bobbin]

yay! another chapter! and a doozy! Irene, Dominika, sex confessions, father/son bonding! And a cliffhanger! I like how you've written Irene - very in character, sexy but dangerous and a bit unlikeable actually, and also how Sherlock responds to her. Well done!

[ariana_paris]

Thank you so much! (And for keeping up the comments throughout, they really provide the impetus to keep me posting as regularly as I can! :)

Quite a lot of this chapter has been in my head ever since I first started writing the story, though there were various things I needed to put into place first before introducing Irene. Having said that, Dominika was a new element because I'd only just seen the episode where she comes back when I was up to chapter 7 and I had a "argh! House is *living* with her? I didn't know that!!" moment. :) But I thought she was a nice, laid-back complement to the rest of them with their various mind games.

I can't say I *like* Irene either, though she is a fantastic character to write and very useful in this story where the male leads are pretty repressed when it comes to expressing feelings normally. I doubt Sherlock likes her much either, though he obviously found her intriguing and attractive - until in this story, he's explored that and probably been as disappointed as she was. ;)

[mildred_bobbin]

Oh I'm always so pleased to see an update! I haven't actually seen the House episode with Dominika (actually I've seen very few House eps, but enough to know who the main characters are) but you seemed to introduce her in advance and seemlessly. I do like her as a foil to the other characters but because of her accent and because I haven't actually seen the character unfortunately I keep imagining Sophia from Two Broke Girls, and I'm sure she is nothing like that! ;) will have to look her up on youtube I guess

[ariana_paris]

Apologies for the late response. Unbelievably busy RL week here.

I dare say some people may have liked Dominika so you'll probably find some scenes with her online. I wasn't very struck on the character's return or interested in her relationship (or lack thereof) with House. But I'm always game to play with whatever a show throws at me, and in this case, it dovetailed nicely with Irene's appearance.

I have a draft of chapter 10 which just needs a rewrite and a beta... which since my betas are as bogged down in RL as I am, means it may still be a couple of weeks before I can post it. But it is coming and the end is nigh. :)

[mildred_bobbin]

actually the other night I stumbled on House on telly and it was the episode where he meets his father and mother, drops his pants to show his birthmark etc - lol I was like - ah I know this, I read it in ariana's fic! So now I have seen Dominika so I can visualise her properly. Can't believe Billy Connelly is House's father but oh well. It did work well in your story. Looking forward to part 10 but I understand about RL!