Sherlock Fic: The Scottish Play
Title: The Scottish Play
Author(s): impulsereader
Rating: PG13 for the weaponisation of Sherlock’s parents (mental abuse on display and physical of children heavily implied) as well as language.
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Character(s): Sherlock, John, and a whole lot of Holmeses. OCs as well as characters borrowed from the television series As Time Goes By and the Hannay novels of John Buchan. But really, it’s mostly the John & Sherlock show. :-)
Summary: It turns out that Sherlock’s Uncle Rocky lives on a rambling estate (John refuses to call The House a castle, he really does) in the Chilterns. Each year, all Holmes relations (close, distant, and honorary) are free to join the gathering which takes place there for a fortnight over the Christmas holiday. As Sherlock explains to John, “Various activities are undertaken; hunting, nature walks, recitations and chamber music in the evenings, there will be Shakespeare performed, the children will be given tuition in painting and chess among other things, we will all Dress For Dinner each evening. It will all be terribly boring and tedious, but I have been threatened in the severest of terms if I do not present myself and pass the interminably dull time along with everyone else.” Of course, nothing is ever that simple (or dull) when the boys are on the scene. Soon Sherlock is having a bit of a breakdown, John is posing shirtless, they end up with a case involving a missing horse, Sherlock tutors the kiddies in science, and John is about to discover exactly how seriously the Holmes clan takes their Shakespeare.
Warnings: See rating above.
Word Count: each act is between 7k and 9k words. This first portion of the ‘you can imagine’ ‘verse therefore adds up to ~40000 words. (Yes. I have written 40k words just as set up for the real thing. I boggle right along with you.
Author's Notes: The Scottish Play is a complete story in V acts. It is the first third of a longer tale told within the 'you can imagine' 'verse which will encompass this piece, 12 short chapters of Baker Street Interludes (a glimpse into John and Sherlock's prep work each month), and which will conclude in a piece similar in length to TSP as the culmination of the prompt from which all of this was born: Sherlock is cast as Beatrice, and John as Benedick. Full stop. I promise it all remains gen with just a side of Mycroft/Not Anthea (she insisted: at crossbow point *jumps out of range*)
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
Author(s): impulsereader
Rating: PG13 for the weaponisation of Sherlock’s parents (mental abuse on display and physical of children heavily implied) as well as language.
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Character(s): Sherlock, John, and a whole lot of Holmeses. OCs as well as characters borrowed from the television series As Time Goes By and the Hannay novels of John Buchan. But really, it’s mostly the John & Sherlock show. :-)
Summary: It turns out that Sherlock’s Uncle Rocky lives on a rambling estate (John refuses to call The House a castle, he really does) in the Chilterns. Each year, all Holmes relations (close, distant, and honorary) are free to join the gathering which takes place there for a fortnight over the Christmas holiday. As Sherlock explains to John, “Various activities are undertaken; hunting, nature walks, recitations and chamber music in the evenings, there will be Shakespeare performed, the children will be given tuition in painting and chess among other things, we will all Dress For Dinner each evening. It will all be terribly boring and tedious, but I have been threatened in the severest of terms if I do not present myself and pass the interminably dull time along with everyone else.” Of course, nothing is ever that simple (or dull) when the boys are on the scene. Soon Sherlock is having a bit of a breakdown, John is posing shirtless, they end up with a case involving a missing horse, Sherlock tutors the kiddies in science, and John is about to discover exactly how seriously the Holmes clan takes their Shakespeare.
Warnings: See rating above.
Word Count: each act is between 7k and 9k words. This first portion of the ‘you can imagine’ ‘verse therefore adds up to ~40000 words. (Yes. I have written 40k words just as set up for the real thing. I boggle right along with you.
Author's Notes: The Scottish Play is a complete story in V acts. It is the first third of a longer tale told within the 'you can imagine' 'verse which will encompass this piece, 12 short chapters of Baker Street Interludes (a glimpse into John and Sherlock's prep work each month), and which will conclude in a piece similar in length to TSP as the culmination of the prompt from which all of this was born: Sherlock is cast as Beatrice, and John as Benedick. Full stop. I promise it all remains gen with just a side of Mycroft/Not Anthea (she insisted: at crossbow point *jumps out of range*)
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V