Delurking because I absolutely adore your AU work.
1) Sherlock loses his voice. Maybe it's stolen, maybe it just slips out somewhere, but Sherlock is so embarrassed/frustrated at such an implausible thing happening that he pretends this is just him being silent for days on end and keeps texting/avoiding everyone (meaning John) until he figures out a way to get it back.
2) Accidental time travel. The boys go back in time, they have to find a way of supporting themselves, and so John winds up writing their adventures into Victorian novels/short stories because this other doctor (Doyle) approves of his crazy stories. (Extra tidbit: When they time travel back, it's crazy awkward, because now Baker Street is as it is in reality, complete with the deerstalker Holmes statue and Holmes head-decorated Baker Street Station.)
3) It's a Holmes tradition to sell their hearts as children in exchange for powers of perception/deduction. It's a crazy expensive process, so people typically sell only, not swap or take, but when John returns home from Afghanistan a broken man, the NHS has a heart he can take to buttress his own. It's a boy's heart, about thirty years in circulation, and it's been returned a ridiculous number of times, but John likes it. It's full of wonder and curiosity and it makes him laugh at all sorts of inappropriate things.
1) Sherlock loses his voice. Maybe it's stolen, maybe it just slips out somewhere, but Sherlock is so embarrassed/frustrated at such an implausible thing happening that he pretends this is just him being silent for days on end and keeps texting/avoiding everyone (meaning John) until he figures out a way to get it back.
2) Accidental time travel. The boys go back in time, they have to find a way of supporting themselves, and so John winds up writing their adventures into Victorian novels/short stories because this other doctor (Doyle) approves of his crazy stories. (Extra tidbit: When they time travel back, it's crazy awkward, because now Baker Street is as it is in reality, complete with the deerstalker Holmes statue and Holmes head-decorated Baker Street Station.)
3) It's a Holmes tradition to sell their hearts as children in exchange for powers of perception/deduction. It's a crazy expensive process, so people typically sell only, not swap or take, but when John returns home from Afghanistan a broken man, the NHS has a heart he can take to buttress his own. It's a boy's heart, about thirty years in circulation, and it's been returned a ridiculous number of times, but John likes it. It's full of wonder and curiosity and it makes him laugh at all sorts of inappropriate things.
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That last one. It is genius.
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