Fanfic Reading List: February 2012
Well, back to posting another list of the fanfiction stories I read this month. Doesn't really look like it'll be much shorter than last month's, even though I have an exam coming up.
Merlin:
Three Kisses Arthur Never Saw: modern AU, Kissing games at Arthur's college graduation party go a bit haywire when introduced to Morgana's Diabolical Death Punch.
Blame it on the Alcohol: modern AU, Merlin hook up at a party, but the next day Arthur claims he doesn't remember much past the beginning of the night. This begins to become a pattern
Hope (That Perches On the Soul): How Arthur really was able to pull the sword from the stone
Bog Man: Over the years, bodies have been found in Northern European peat bogs. Some archaeologists surmise that those bodies belonged to people deemed human sacrifices. Or Iron Age Merlin/Arthur
She Will Not Sit Upon His Throne: When Merlin finds out Morgana has taken Gwaine, he throws all caution out of the window
Merlin rps:
How Everyone Learned Bradley James is the Jealous Type: Bradley never expected anyone to ask how they got together. Therefore he never formed an appropriate answer, and perhaps that was the reason he found himself telling the story of an awards ceremony, a particularly physical interviewer, and Bradley's encounter with jealous.
It’s Like Rain On Your Wedding Day: R, Bradley’s thoughts on the Knights’ cover of Gay Times
Just Me and Ewe: A Brolin Valentine: Bradley has planned a very special surprise for Mr. Colin Morgan, who remembers the trials it's taken them to get to this point
Meanwhile...on the set of Merlin: Bradley makes Colin eat gummi-animals
The Beatles:
xxx: John writes himself a letter in Paul's name
Kisses On the Bottom: John is trying to write while Paul plays music in their hotel room
We Happy Few: Five reasons why Brian Epstein loved the Beatles. Portrait of a manager.
Doctor Who:
Four Times River Isn't At All Surprised, and One Time She Is: The Doctor wants to surprise River with something. She already knows what it is.
A Small Price to Pay: The Doctor cheats when seeing his and River's child for the first time
Sometimes, Never, Again: slight Rory/Doctor, Rory’s thoughts during The Impossible Astronaut.
A Life of Her Own: The Doctor watches River at a dig
Harry Potter:
A Taste of Truth: Dumbledore/Grindelwald, You would have Albus even if this were not the outcome, for you knew the moment you met him that you were kindred souls; he only needed a little convincing.
Sherlock:
John/Sherlock (friendship and relationship, because where do you draw the line):
Sentinel: Sherlock disappears for a week without leaving word, and John is forced to work out what it is that he wants.
Darkness: missing scene from Hound of the Baskervilles
Equivalent Retaliation: After the events at Baskerville and thinking about PTSD, Sherlock finds himself forced to consider the concequences of what he did to John.
*** Fo(u)nd Poetry: John wants to know what they mean, these scraps, these chunks of poetry pulled out of context and left around the flat like some obscure, verbose treasure hunt.
***Liquid: "I go solid when you get around"
***One in Ten Thousand: Sherlock finds out why John survived a wound that should have killed him
***The Kids Are Alright: John finds a piece of paper from when he babysat Sherlock as a child
Twice, to Make Sure: Sherlock takes the drug from Baskerville a second time
*** In which John is attractive and Sherlock is angry: Sherlock's reaction to finding out that everyone wants HIS John, and how he told them to piss off and get their own Watson.
Paradise Lost: AU. Demon!Sherlock and Angel!John. It wasn't so much the apple that was the temptation as it was the not-quite-man holding the apple.
Just friends: Sherlock resents John refering to their friendship as just friends
*** The Great Wave: nspired by the color woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai known as The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
raise it up (shining): John keeps the little key to Sherlock's mechanical heart
*** Killing Is in My Veins.: Dark themes; Sherlock and John discuss Sherlock's family history and how far John would go for Sherlock
Days on End: Sherlock won't stop talking.
Mozart: John is worried about Sherlock's former drug habit
Means to an end: John is asleep on the sofa and Sherlock doesn't want to disturb him
***To Sleep, Perchance to Smother Your Flatmate with a Pillow: Sherlock decides he needs to find out whether sleeping in the same bed as somebody else improves sleep
Just Another Flesh Wound: Apparently, John is a human pin-cushion.
*** It's Not Pretty: John makes up the life stories of people they see on a train and Sherlock lets him
Cellmates: John and Sherlock find themselves incarcerated for a night, and Sherlock's being a bit of a prat about it
Anything: Sherlock wants to know what John would do for him
'Cause the afternoon's already come and gone: John’s never been much of a morning person…
Tectonic Platonic: John is in shock and Sherlock takes care of him
Dangerous: Sherlock warned John against going out
***Public Display: Sherlock is new to this whole relationship thing and the only way he knows about it is to publicly declare his love for John. John decides Sherlock is definitely the girl in their relationship.
No Circumstances Could Excuse: Six and a half times John Watson wishes he had kissed Sherlock Holmes
New Phone: Sherlock has a new phone and problems with autocorrect...
Freudian Slip?: John suspects autocorrect
Okay, It's a Date, But Shut Up About It: John is mooning about on Valentine's Day, and Sherlock is having none of it.
Strip poker John Watson style: John uses a new idea to get Sherlock dressed
Headless: Sherlock's skull goes missing
Scar Tissue: They’d lived at 221B Baker Street for six weeks before Sherlock finally saw the scar on John’s shoulder.
Alternatives: Procedures to check if Sherlock has a concussion are a bit different
John Watson is No Bella Swan: John suspects he has a midnight visitor. He actually does something about it.
Beautiful: No one, apart from John Watson, would ever believe the man could be affectionate.
What Happens in 221B: Sherlock wanders around in the nude
John +/ Sherlock, Reichenbach:
Leaving Just a Memory (Snapshot in the Family Album): Whenever John walks to and from work, he passes by a wall covered in "Believe in Sherlock" graffiti.
A lonely place to live with just a ghost: John starts to forget after a while.
Calm and Steady: Sherlock comes back in need of a shower and sometimes, words just get in the way
***This, Our Night: Set during The Reichenbach Fall. Sherlock doesn't want to be alone tonight. As always, he has John.
***Starting Now: Letting go of John is much harder than Sherlock thought it would be, but he can't go back just yet. Things like this take time.
The Burned Heart: Sherlock watches John limp
Satsumas: When Sherlock returns, it all feels perfectly natural for a moment
***Other People's Sleeves: It takes a conversation with Irene and a conversation with Molly for Sherlock to fully understand what Moriarty meant at the pool.
Regret, Shared: John has worked things out and visits Mycroft
Reunion: John drags through his days. Sherlock is full of purpose, but miserable as well
***Putting the Pieces Together: Lestrade and John realise a few things
*** Two skulls on a shelf: Mycroft gives Moriarty's skull to John
It Becomes You: everyone worries that John Watson has lost his mind when he becomes obsessed with proving how Sherlock Holmes faked his own death.
Don't Leave Me Here Alone: John knows but waiting to be reunited with Sherlock is still harder than expected
Quiet Chaos: John Watson hasn’t been sleeping much lately
***Friends Protect People: John figures out what Sherlock wants to do and protects him
***Reaction No. 42: Sherlock has imagined various scenarios for his return from the dead. It turns out they are all wrong.
***The only thing to do: It takes John six months to realise what happened. It takes a lot longer to deal with it.
two summers beyond eternity: Would you hate me if I followed you this one last time?
Contingency Planning: After everything is over, there's this: seventeen steps, and a door. He's planned this, endlessly, examined every contingency. In his head the first part always goes right. It's just walking up some stairs.
Sociopath: Sherlock calls called himself a Sociopath. John’s a Doctor, and knows knew better.
Realisation: Sherlock finally comes to understand what role he plays in John’s life.
Sixth Sense: doing this to John hurts Sherlock with ALL his senses
End: Sherlock doesn't want to go back to before he met Moriarty
*** Pressure on the Fracture Line: John breaks and keeps seeing Sherlock. In the end, he handcuffs him to the radiator
The Good Samaritan: Three months after the events of Reichenbach, Lestrade and John meet up at a crime scene.
Pump it up!: Sherlock keeps on bringing John tea. John finds out something has been added - to both their cups...
I'll Be Here When It All Gets Weird: Sherlock returns from the dead and John isn't quite sure how to react. John makes a spur of the moment decision.
What I didn't know: John remembers Sherlock
and flooded lungs: When Sherlock returns, John doesn't punch him, hug him, or faint. He runs away.
Closure: Three years after Sherlock's fall from St. Bart's, John finds some closure when he visits his grave with Lestrade.
***Me Without You: The small things finally get John, but a walk with Mrs. Hudson shows him something...
***Falling: Sherlock hasn't stopped falling, but Molly gets him John's dog tags
***All's Fair in Family Matters: Mycroft tells Sherlock that John is dead to make him come home
***Strangers Who Aren't So Strange: Someone familiar tries to share John's cab.
*** Proof: John speaks to the one person who can prove Sherlock lied to him.
Everything left unsaid.: John sometimes forgot what a normal life was like, though possibly, as Sherlock would have claimed, it would be boring. He knew he wouldn't swap his life for normal. He would even keep the pain, if losing it meant forgetting the most frustrating, brilliant man he had ever known.
1 Year, 2 Days and 16 Hours: John ignores Sherlock because he thinks he's halucinating
Tears, Idle Tears: John gets a graffiti message from Sherlock and has to pay
Holding Out for a Miracle: When Sherlock gets back he goes to see John and John doesn’t even react just lets him slide seamlessly back into his life. Then they meet Lestrade for lunch and Sherlock realises why.
Keep me from falling: When Sherlock returns, neither of them wants to spend the night alone
All’s well that ends well: Mycroft takes a slightly apprehensive Sherlock back to Baker Street
John/Sherlock from an outside POV:
Packed Lunch: in the midst of a long case, Sherlock has to eat something.
***Fading Nightmares: “Bury us in the same coffin. John has nightmares and I don’t want him to sleep alone"
As If in a New Orbit: Lestrade; It's not like anything actually substantial changes when John Watson begins to show up systematically at Sherlock Holmes' side.
A People Person: Lestrade is good at reading people. Molly isn't.
When No One Can See: Molly sees many things others don't and tries telling Sherlock what this will do to John
Matchmaking à la Moriarty: Moriarty has a disturbing idea of fun. And an ever more disturbing idea of matchmaking.
John/Sherlock rated T and upwards:
Aches and Pains: They ache from the things fanfiction writers make them do
Dwindle: Two and a half years after the fall, Sherlock cracks. When the last remnants of him die and leave an empty shell, he goes back to the one man who can rebuild him.
*** Battle Stratagem for the Domesticated British Male: They grow old and Sherlock makes retirement plans
(Bite Marks): Sherlock needs John to copy the bite marks found on a victim...
The Inherent Fallacy of a Slippery Slope: they have both been holding back because they think the other isn't ready
Experimental Physics: Sherlock needs to test something on John...
Fair Play to the Queen: A bit of a rewrite for the infamous sheet scene. Voyeurism
Nightmares
The Evidence of Existence: John is not prone to hallucinations, which means Sherlock must be alive. So he makes Sherlock apologise.
***Labels: When John and Sherlock touch, Sherlock feels warm and John feels relieved. There is no label for this, but they are them. (non-sexual relationship)
Faces Painted White by Midnight: John hyperventilates after the pool, Sherlock takes care of him
The Usual Mistakes: Their first time and certain issues about beds
Scribble: when he forgets he has the same parts as other people, Sherlock finds himself way out of his depth during an experiment. John helps him out
John/Sherlock multichapter stories:
What comes after: A look at what happens after the fall, John + Mycroft
---> 2: Molly
---> 3: Sherlock
---> 4: Mycroft
---> 5: John is being followed
---> 6: Sherlock comes to the rescue
*** Tremolo: ordinary people have a pulse. Sherlock isn't ordinary
---> Dismantle the Sun: Mycroft gives John a wooden figurine
The Talk: M, John decides it's time he helped Sherlock with his beliefs about sex. So he proposes a question and answer session with his friend. During the course of their discussion, they both learn more than they ever expected
Unwritten Notes: R, Sequel to Untitled Document
C# Minor: Sherlock plays the violin while watching John type
---> Chimera
The Sigerson Letters: John gets e-mails from a Jeremy Sigerson
Category Two: John glimpses Sherlock in a crowded street for three seconds and dreams of him
---> 2
---> 3
---> 4
---> 5
---> 6
When I fall, part 4: Lestrade, Molly
Paradise Lost (Prologue): It wasn't so much the apple that was the temptation as it was the not-quite-man holding the apple.
---> Paradise Lost - Chapter One
Retrograde [Chapter One]: Sherlock suffers from amnesia, and John wonders what about them leads to the deduction that they were dating.
---> Retrograde [Chapter Two]
Home is so sad (221b drabbles)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang : M, kissing through the bars handcuffed
***The Reluctant Relationship: It happened so often that most of the time John didn’t even bother to protest anymore. So the entire world thought that he and Sherlock were - well, whatever. It was fine. It was really fine.
A Matter Of Affection: NC-17, Sequel to A Matter of Convenience, wherein Sherlock and John became lovers. While John and Sherlock are (mostly) okay with the sex, they find other aspects of their changed relationship more of a challenge.
John Watson's 12 Things Happy People Do: In which John Watson follows the advice of a website.
What Follows After: After a night where John talked Sherlock through an intimate act ( Follow My Voice), NC-17, Sherlock now has to decide what he wants and where this should go. Can he let go of his fears enough to let John in?
Mobile: John sends Sherlock a text after Reichenbach and Anderson receives it
*** Must Be Mad: There are some things none of us understand. Things like falling in love with Sherlock Holmes.
---> More Than I Am: John Watson is in love with a madman. And the madman is in love with him. (He thinks.)
People Might Talk: NC-17, What might have happened if Moriarty hadn’t come back to the pool at the end of The Great Game and Sherlock and John kept up that flirting?
A Capital Mistake : R, Sherlock hasn't been right since Irene. John has a pretty good idea how he can help, but exactly how the hell does one turn casually to Sherlock Holmes and say, "So was your brother right? *Are* you still a virgin?"
Still Sherlock : Sherlock develops early onset Alzheimer's disease and when he no longer recognises John, he knows what he must do.
Gen/Other:
Lay blame at my door: When Sherlock comes back after the hiatus, everyone expects him to be furious with Sally Donovan (including her), but he isn't
A Mutual Grief: John talks to Anne Lestrade
---> Sharing the Load II: Anne and John share chocolate milk after nightmares
Death is at your doorstep: Molly is much more scared of Sherlock alive in her living room than she would have been if he had actually died, in the end
*** Nebulous Guilt: Sally did her job and she doesn’t regret a thing she did. That’s small comfort for the unexplained guilt she has
Everything In Its Right Place (AKA Come To The Dark Side We Have Cookies): Dark! Mrs. Hudson; They wonder why she puts up with him, they don't realise how apt it is having Sherlock as her tenant, or who this unassuming lady is when she's not at home baking and brewing and making light of all the little things. She's not silly, she knows what matters.
The Cake is a Lie: Mycroft actually doesn't like cake
Friendship: Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, They both helped Sherlock fake his death, and for three long years they're the only people who know that he's alive
Perfection: Anthea walks in on Mycroft when he's having a break down
5 Times Mycroft tried to have a lie in, and one time he succeeded
Today, of All Days: Ohn runs into Molly on the anniversary of Sherlock's death and she has been buying clothes for a man
Banned Substances: Sherlock discovers energy drinks.
6 Things that told Mycroft “all hearts are broken” and that “caring is not an advantage.”
Minor Government Official: Someone tries to downsize Mycroft because they don't know all of his unofficial duties.
Mother's Day: Sherlock takes Mrs. Hudson out for dinner
5 Ways Anthea Looked After Mycroft
Wine: Drunk Anthea, and Mycroft having to deal with emotional PA
***Lonely this Christmas: Why Mycroft spends his Christmases alone
Gen/Other, multichapter stories:
Dance for the Undead: Sherlock knows a place where you can dance.
When I Fall: Molly has a lot on her mind when she goes to bed at night
---> 5 + other links
Beep III: Text conversations between various characters
Beep IV: To Sherlock's great delight, Anthea is calling herself Dorothy today
Lestrade/Sherlock:
Grey: He takes the hat with him on his first day back.
*** Coming Home: Lestrade/Sherlock, Sherlock/John, When John enters Sherlock’s life, Lestrade is afraid John might be able to give Sherlock what he can't give him
Sweetheart: Five times Lestrade called Sherlock sweetheart, and one time Sherlock commented on it.
Last Night as I lay on my Pillow, I Dreamt that my Bonnie was Dead: Sherlock suffers from nightmares after Reichenbach.
What You Leave Behind: Sherlock finds himself agonizing over all that he saw and mourning everyone he was forced to abandon. Mycroft tries to help.
John/Mycroft:
Always the Poets: bonding over 1st World War poetry
John/Mycroft rated T upwards:
Bare: John makes Mycroft feel better about the issues he has with his body
Notice Me, John: John has a stalker
John/Mycroft, multichapter stories:
***While You Were Dead : M, After the reichenbach falls, John terribly misses Sherlock, and.....also Mycroft.
Mycroft/Lestrade:
The End of the Third is the Beginning of the First (aka the mistaken third date): Lestrade thinks they’re on their third date, Mycroft doesn’t even know it’s a date.
Brief Encounter with the Past: Lestrade meets one of Mycroft's exes and becomes slightly jealous.
Sex doesn't alarm me: Sherlock pickpockets Lestrade's phone and regrets it
Pride: John meets Mycroft and Lestrade at the World Pride in London
First Right of Refusal: Mycroft asks Lestrade to move in with him
Brighton Pier: They spend an evening at a fairground
Admiring Detectives: Mycroft gets caught admiring Lestrade
Scotch, Declined [8]: Lestrade has it figured out and declines a drink
---> Scotch, Considered [9]: In which Lestrade makes a decision.
---> Beyond Scotch [10]: In which Lestrade tells Mycroft his decision.
Mycroft + Sherlock:
Orbit: Sherlock has been missing for 7 and a half hours. And if Mycroft is beginning to worry about him, he doesn't let on.
4 times Mycroft was an awesome big brother (and one time Sherlock was an awesome little brother.)
Millennium Mills: Mycroft loses it when Sherlock gets in trouble. Anthea is terrified.
What Keeps us Afloat: For once, Mycroft's power and connections can't fix the problem. A glance at the broken relationship between Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.
*** Peace: John comes to see Mycroft to show him something
Delete Me: After a heated fight, Mycroft asks Sherlock to delete him from his brain.
Driving Buddies: On reflection it had been a bad idea to distract his 11yr old brother with a bag of sweets
To Everything, There is a Season: Sherlock starts speaking very late
Ducks All in a Row: At eight years old, Sherlock Holmes had already chosen his future spouse.
*** The Bottom of the List: Mycroft Holmes knows his place in his brother's priorities.
Headache: Sherlock's got a headache, so he texts Mycroft.
Sherlock/Mycroft, rated T upwards:
Decadent: S/M/J, John learns by accident the true nature of the relationship between Mycroft and Sherlock, which is more than a brotherly one. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, because their perversity runs even deeper than that.
Before the Dawn: On the night before his fall, Sherlock goes to Mycroft with a request - and a farewell
Other Pairings, slash:
The Edge of a Coin: Jim/John, Sherlock didn't expect what he saw at the pool
Just an Old Friend: Sherlock Holmes/Victor Trevor, In which Sherlock has a secret boyfriend who finally meets John Watson.
Other Pairings, het:
Playing: Sherlock/Irene, Sherlock decides to embrace the chemicals
That is All: John/Sherlock, John/Mary; Sherlock breaks up with John and John moves on
Pack Up The Moon, Dismantle The Sun: John/Mary, John very slowly begins to move on
Who needs normal, anyway?: Sherlock/John (nonsexual), John/Mary Morstan (established), when Sherlock tells Mary that John is planning to propose, converstions about their relationships ensue
At the Zoo: Jeanette takes a class of kids to the zoo, John only takes Sherlock
Other Pairings rated T and upwards:
Sfumato: implied parent/child sexual abuse, Mycroft/Jim, Mycroft cannot shake the fear that he will spend the rest of his life listening for the footsteps of a man long dead echoing behind him.
Duel: Mycroft/Irene
femslash:
Water: Harry/Sarah; "Could we stop talking about your brother now, please?" Sarah says.
---> Dust: Clara cleans after the relationship ends
---> Juice: Harry has news when she meets with Clara
---> Put Asunder: Clara gets more news while going over the papers for what isn't a divorce
---> Any Just Cause: John/Lestrade, Sherlock/John, Harry/Sarah; Lestrade accompanies John to Harry and Sarah's CP
Lighthouses: Irene/Anthea, R, She knows she shouldn't still be here, but something compelled her to stay after watching John and Sherlock
Postcards: After Sherlock's death, John gets a postcard from South Africa and later one from Canada
The unknown shape of things: Molly/Anthea; Molly wants to make herself anew
John + Sebastian Moran:
*** Sunlight on a Broken Column: Jim was Moran's Sherlock - and John this understands all too well.
Rumors of death: Things get a bit more bearable for John after a visit from Sebastian Moran
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know: R, After the fall, John makes the acquaintance of Sebastian Moran. Similar griefs bring them together, but can one ever really escape the past?
Merlin:
Three Kisses Arthur Never Saw: modern AU, Kissing games at Arthur's college graduation party go a bit haywire when introduced to Morgana's Diabolical Death Punch.
Blame it on the Alcohol: modern AU, Merlin hook up at a party, but the next day Arthur claims he doesn't remember much past the beginning of the night. This begins to become a pattern
Hope (That Perches On the Soul): How Arthur really was able to pull the sword from the stone
Bog Man: Over the years, bodies have been found in Northern European peat bogs. Some archaeologists surmise that those bodies belonged to people deemed human sacrifices. Or Iron Age Merlin/Arthur
She Will Not Sit Upon His Throne: When Merlin finds out Morgana has taken Gwaine, he throws all caution out of the window
Merlin rps:
How Everyone Learned Bradley James is the Jealous Type: Bradley never expected anyone to ask how they got together. Therefore he never formed an appropriate answer, and perhaps that was the reason he found himself telling the story of an awards ceremony, a particularly physical interviewer, and Bradley's encounter with jealous.
It’s Like Rain On Your Wedding Day: R, Bradley’s thoughts on the Knights’ cover of Gay Times
Just Me and Ewe: A Brolin Valentine: Bradley has planned a very special surprise for Mr. Colin Morgan, who remembers the trials it's taken them to get to this point
Meanwhile...on the set of Merlin: Bradley makes Colin eat gummi-animals
The Beatles:
xxx: John writes himself a letter in Paul's name
Kisses On the Bottom: John is trying to write while Paul plays music in their hotel room
We Happy Few: Five reasons why Brian Epstein loved the Beatles. Portrait of a manager.
Doctor Who:
Four Times River Isn't At All Surprised, and One Time She Is: The Doctor wants to surprise River with something. She already knows what it is.
A Small Price to Pay: The Doctor cheats when seeing his and River's child for the first time
Sometimes, Never, Again: slight Rory/Doctor, Rory’s thoughts during The Impossible Astronaut.
A Life of Her Own: The Doctor watches River at a dig
Harry Potter:
A Taste of Truth: Dumbledore/Grindelwald, You would have Albus even if this were not the outcome, for you knew the moment you met him that you were kindred souls; he only needed a little convincing.
Sherlock:
John/Sherlock (friendship and relationship, because where do you draw the line):
Sentinel: Sherlock disappears for a week without leaving word, and John is forced to work out what it is that he wants.
Darkness: missing scene from Hound of the Baskervilles
Equivalent Retaliation: After the events at Baskerville and thinking about PTSD, Sherlock finds himself forced to consider the concequences of what he did to John.
*** Fo(u)nd Poetry: John wants to know what they mean, these scraps, these chunks of poetry pulled out of context and left around the flat like some obscure, verbose treasure hunt.
***Liquid: "I go solid when you get around"
***One in Ten Thousand: Sherlock finds out why John survived a wound that should have killed him
***The Kids Are Alright: John finds a piece of paper from when he babysat Sherlock as a child
Twice, to Make Sure: Sherlock takes the drug from Baskerville a second time
*** In which John is attractive and Sherlock is angry: Sherlock's reaction to finding out that everyone wants HIS John, and how he told them to piss off and get their own Watson.
Paradise Lost: AU. Demon!Sherlock and Angel!John. It wasn't so much the apple that was the temptation as it was the not-quite-man holding the apple.
Just friends: Sherlock resents John refering to their friendship as just friends
*** The Great Wave: nspired by the color woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai known as The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
raise it up (shining): John keeps the little key to Sherlock's mechanical heart
*** Killing Is in My Veins.: Dark themes; Sherlock and John discuss Sherlock's family history and how far John would go for Sherlock
Days on End: Sherlock won't stop talking.
Mozart: John is worried about Sherlock's former drug habit
Means to an end: John is asleep on the sofa and Sherlock doesn't want to disturb him
***To Sleep, Perchance to Smother Your Flatmate with a Pillow: Sherlock decides he needs to find out whether sleeping in the same bed as somebody else improves sleep
Just Another Flesh Wound: Apparently, John is a human pin-cushion.
*** It's Not Pretty: John makes up the life stories of people they see on a train and Sherlock lets him
Cellmates: John and Sherlock find themselves incarcerated for a night, and Sherlock's being a bit of a prat about it
Anything: Sherlock wants to know what John would do for him
'Cause the afternoon's already come and gone: John’s never been much of a morning person…
Tectonic Platonic: John is in shock and Sherlock takes care of him
Dangerous: Sherlock warned John against going out
***Public Display: Sherlock is new to this whole relationship thing and the only way he knows about it is to publicly declare his love for John. John decides Sherlock is definitely the girl in their relationship.
No Circumstances Could Excuse: Six and a half times John Watson wishes he had kissed Sherlock Holmes
New Phone: Sherlock has a new phone and problems with autocorrect...
Freudian Slip?: John suspects autocorrect
Okay, It's a Date, But Shut Up About It: John is mooning about on Valentine's Day, and Sherlock is having none of it.
Strip poker John Watson style: John uses a new idea to get Sherlock dressed
Headless: Sherlock's skull goes missing
Scar Tissue: They’d lived at 221B Baker Street for six weeks before Sherlock finally saw the scar on John’s shoulder.
Alternatives: Procedures to check if Sherlock has a concussion are a bit different
John Watson is No Bella Swan: John suspects he has a midnight visitor. He actually does something about it.
Beautiful: No one, apart from John Watson, would ever believe the man could be affectionate.
What Happens in 221B: Sherlock wanders around in the nude
John +/ Sherlock, Reichenbach:
Leaving Just a Memory (Snapshot in the Family Album): Whenever John walks to and from work, he passes by a wall covered in "Believe in Sherlock" graffiti.
A lonely place to live with just a ghost: John starts to forget after a while.
Calm and Steady: Sherlock comes back in need of a shower and sometimes, words just get in the way
***This, Our Night: Set during The Reichenbach Fall. Sherlock doesn't want to be alone tonight. As always, he has John.
***Starting Now: Letting go of John is much harder than Sherlock thought it would be, but he can't go back just yet. Things like this take time.
The Burned Heart: Sherlock watches John limp
Satsumas: When Sherlock returns, it all feels perfectly natural for a moment
***Other People's Sleeves: It takes a conversation with Irene and a conversation with Molly for Sherlock to fully understand what Moriarty meant at the pool.
Regret, Shared: John has worked things out and visits Mycroft
Reunion: John drags through his days. Sherlock is full of purpose, but miserable as well
***Putting the Pieces Together: Lestrade and John realise a few things
*** Two skulls on a shelf: Mycroft gives Moriarty's skull to John
It Becomes You: everyone worries that John Watson has lost his mind when he becomes obsessed with proving how Sherlock Holmes faked his own death.
Don't Leave Me Here Alone: John knows but waiting to be reunited with Sherlock is still harder than expected
Quiet Chaos: John Watson hasn’t been sleeping much lately
***Friends Protect People: John figures out what Sherlock wants to do and protects him
***Reaction No. 42: Sherlock has imagined various scenarios for his return from the dead. It turns out they are all wrong.
***The only thing to do: It takes John six months to realise what happened. It takes a lot longer to deal with it.
two summers beyond eternity: Would you hate me if I followed you this one last time?
Contingency Planning: After everything is over, there's this: seventeen steps, and a door. He's planned this, endlessly, examined every contingency. In his head the first part always goes right. It's just walking up some stairs.
Sociopath: Sherlock calls called himself a Sociopath. John’s a Doctor, and knows knew better.
Realisation: Sherlock finally comes to understand what role he plays in John’s life.
Sixth Sense: doing this to John hurts Sherlock with ALL his senses
End: Sherlock doesn't want to go back to before he met Moriarty
*** Pressure on the Fracture Line: John breaks and keeps seeing Sherlock. In the end, he handcuffs him to the radiator
The Good Samaritan: Three months after the events of Reichenbach, Lestrade and John meet up at a crime scene.
Pump it up!: Sherlock keeps on bringing John tea. John finds out something has been added - to both their cups...
I'll Be Here When It All Gets Weird: Sherlock returns from the dead and John isn't quite sure how to react. John makes a spur of the moment decision.
What I didn't know: John remembers Sherlock
and flooded lungs: When Sherlock returns, John doesn't punch him, hug him, or faint. He runs away.
Closure: Three years after Sherlock's fall from St. Bart's, John finds some closure when he visits his grave with Lestrade.
***Me Without You: The small things finally get John, but a walk with Mrs. Hudson shows him something...
***Falling: Sherlock hasn't stopped falling, but Molly gets him John's dog tags
***All's Fair in Family Matters: Mycroft tells Sherlock that John is dead to make him come home
***Strangers Who Aren't So Strange: Someone familiar tries to share John's cab.
*** Proof: John speaks to the one person who can prove Sherlock lied to him.
Everything left unsaid.: John sometimes forgot what a normal life was like, though possibly, as Sherlock would have claimed, it would be boring. He knew he wouldn't swap his life for normal. He would even keep the pain, if losing it meant forgetting the most frustrating, brilliant man he had ever known.
1 Year, 2 Days and 16 Hours: John ignores Sherlock because he thinks he's halucinating
Tears, Idle Tears: John gets a graffiti message from Sherlock and has to pay
Holding Out for a Miracle: When Sherlock gets back he goes to see John and John doesn’t even react just lets him slide seamlessly back into his life. Then they meet Lestrade for lunch and Sherlock realises why.
Keep me from falling: When Sherlock returns, neither of them wants to spend the night alone
All’s well that ends well: Mycroft takes a slightly apprehensive Sherlock back to Baker Street
John/Sherlock from an outside POV:
Packed Lunch: in the midst of a long case, Sherlock has to eat something.
***Fading Nightmares: “Bury us in the same coffin. John has nightmares and I don’t want him to sleep alone"
As If in a New Orbit: Lestrade; It's not like anything actually substantial changes when John Watson begins to show up systematically at Sherlock Holmes' side.
A People Person: Lestrade is good at reading people. Molly isn't.
When No One Can See: Molly sees many things others don't and tries telling Sherlock what this will do to John
Matchmaking à la Moriarty: Moriarty has a disturbing idea of fun. And an ever more disturbing idea of matchmaking.
John/Sherlock rated T and upwards:
Aches and Pains: They ache from the things fanfiction writers make them do
Dwindle: Two and a half years after the fall, Sherlock cracks. When the last remnants of him die and leave an empty shell, he goes back to the one man who can rebuild him.
*** Battle Stratagem for the Domesticated British Male: They grow old and Sherlock makes retirement plans
(Bite Marks): Sherlock needs John to copy the bite marks found on a victim...
The Inherent Fallacy of a Slippery Slope: they have both been holding back because they think the other isn't ready
Experimental Physics: Sherlock needs to test something on John...
Fair Play to the Queen: A bit of a rewrite for the infamous sheet scene. Voyeurism
Nightmares
The Evidence of Existence: John is not prone to hallucinations, which means Sherlock must be alive. So he makes Sherlock apologise.
***Labels: When John and Sherlock touch, Sherlock feels warm and John feels relieved. There is no label for this, but they are them. (non-sexual relationship)
Faces Painted White by Midnight: John hyperventilates after the pool, Sherlock takes care of him
The Usual Mistakes: Their first time and certain issues about beds
Scribble: when he forgets he has the same parts as other people, Sherlock finds himself way out of his depth during an experiment. John helps him out
John/Sherlock multichapter stories:
What comes after: A look at what happens after the fall, John + Mycroft
---> 2: Molly
---> 3: Sherlock
---> 4: Mycroft
---> 5: John is being followed
---> 6: Sherlock comes to the rescue
*** Tremolo: ordinary people have a pulse. Sherlock isn't ordinary
---> Dismantle the Sun: Mycroft gives John a wooden figurine
The Talk: M, John decides it's time he helped Sherlock with his beliefs about sex. So he proposes a question and answer session with his friend. During the course of their discussion, they both learn more than they ever expected
Unwritten Notes: R, Sequel to Untitled Document
C# Minor: Sherlock plays the violin while watching John type
---> Chimera
The Sigerson Letters: John gets e-mails from a Jeremy Sigerson
Category Two: John glimpses Sherlock in a crowded street for three seconds and dreams of him
---> 2
---> 3
---> 4
---> 5
---> 6
When I fall, part 4: Lestrade, Molly
Paradise Lost (Prologue): It wasn't so much the apple that was the temptation as it was the not-quite-man holding the apple.
---> Paradise Lost - Chapter One
Retrograde [Chapter One]: Sherlock suffers from amnesia, and John wonders what about them leads to the deduction that they were dating.
---> Retrograde [Chapter Two]
Home is so sad (221b drabbles)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang : M, kissing through the bars handcuffed
***The Reluctant Relationship: It happened so often that most of the time John didn’t even bother to protest anymore. So the entire world thought that he and Sherlock were - well, whatever. It was fine. It was really fine.
A Matter Of Affection: NC-17, Sequel to A Matter of Convenience, wherein Sherlock and John became lovers. While John and Sherlock are (mostly) okay with the sex, they find other aspects of their changed relationship more of a challenge.
John Watson's 12 Things Happy People Do: In which John Watson follows the advice of a website.
What Follows After: After a night where John talked Sherlock through an intimate act ( Follow My Voice), NC-17, Sherlock now has to decide what he wants and where this should go. Can he let go of his fears enough to let John in?
Mobile: John sends Sherlock a text after Reichenbach and Anderson receives it
*** Must Be Mad: There are some things none of us understand. Things like falling in love with Sherlock Holmes.
---> More Than I Am: John Watson is in love with a madman. And the madman is in love with him. (He thinks.)
People Might Talk: NC-17, What might have happened if Moriarty hadn’t come back to the pool at the end of The Great Game and Sherlock and John kept up that flirting?
A Capital Mistake : R, Sherlock hasn't been right since Irene. John has a pretty good idea how he can help, but exactly how the hell does one turn casually to Sherlock Holmes and say, "So was your brother right? *Are* you still a virgin?"
Still Sherlock : Sherlock develops early onset Alzheimer's disease and when he no longer recognises John, he knows what he must do.
Gen/Other:
Lay blame at my door: When Sherlock comes back after the hiatus, everyone expects him to be furious with Sally Donovan (including her), but he isn't
A Mutual Grief: John talks to Anne Lestrade
---> Sharing the Load II: Anne and John share chocolate milk after nightmares
Death is at your doorstep: Molly is much more scared of Sherlock alive in her living room than she would have been if he had actually died, in the end
*** Nebulous Guilt: Sally did her job and she doesn’t regret a thing she did. That’s small comfort for the unexplained guilt she has
Everything In Its Right Place (AKA Come To The Dark Side We Have Cookies): Dark! Mrs. Hudson; They wonder why she puts up with him, they don't realise how apt it is having Sherlock as her tenant, or who this unassuming lady is when she's not at home baking and brewing and making light of all the little things. She's not silly, she knows what matters.
The Cake is a Lie: Mycroft actually doesn't like cake
Friendship: Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, They both helped Sherlock fake his death, and for three long years they're the only people who know that he's alive
Perfection: Anthea walks in on Mycroft when he's having a break down
5 Times Mycroft tried to have a lie in, and one time he succeeded
Today, of All Days: Ohn runs into Molly on the anniversary of Sherlock's death and she has been buying clothes for a man
Banned Substances: Sherlock discovers energy drinks.
6 Things that told Mycroft “all hearts are broken” and that “caring is not an advantage.”
Minor Government Official: Someone tries to downsize Mycroft because they don't know all of his unofficial duties.
Mother's Day: Sherlock takes Mrs. Hudson out for dinner
5 Ways Anthea Looked After Mycroft
Wine: Drunk Anthea, and Mycroft having to deal with emotional PA
***Lonely this Christmas: Why Mycroft spends his Christmases alone
Gen/Other, multichapter stories:
Dance for the Undead: Sherlock knows a place where you can dance.
When I Fall: Molly has a lot on her mind when she goes to bed at night
---> 5 + other links
Beep III: Text conversations between various characters
Beep IV: To Sherlock's great delight, Anthea is calling herself Dorothy today
Lestrade/Sherlock:
Grey: He takes the hat with him on his first day back.
*** Coming Home: Lestrade/Sherlock, Sherlock/John, When John enters Sherlock’s life, Lestrade is afraid John might be able to give Sherlock what he can't give him
Sweetheart: Five times Lestrade called Sherlock sweetheart, and one time Sherlock commented on it.
Last Night as I lay on my Pillow, I Dreamt that my Bonnie was Dead: Sherlock suffers from nightmares after Reichenbach.
What You Leave Behind: Sherlock finds himself agonizing over all that he saw and mourning everyone he was forced to abandon. Mycroft tries to help.
John/Mycroft:
Always the Poets: bonding over 1st World War poetry
John/Mycroft rated T upwards:
Bare: John makes Mycroft feel better about the issues he has with his body
Notice Me, John: John has a stalker
John/Mycroft, multichapter stories:
***While You Were Dead : M, After the reichenbach falls, John terribly misses Sherlock, and.....also Mycroft.
Mycroft/Lestrade:
The End of the Third is the Beginning of the First (aka the mistaken third date): Lestrade thinks they’re on their third date, Mycroft doesn’t even know it’s a date.
Brief Encounter with the Past: Lestrade meets one of Mycroft's exes and becomes slightly jealous.
Sex doesn't alarm me: Sherlock pickpockets Lestrade's phone and regrets it
Pride: John meets Mycroft and Lestrade at the World Pride in London
First Right of Refusal: Mycroft asks Lestrade to move in with him
Brighton Pier: They spend an evening at a fairground
Admiring Detectives: Mycroft gets caught admiring Lestrade
Scotch, Declined [8]: Lestrade has it figured out and declines a drink
---> Scotch, Considered [9]: In which Lestrade makes a decision.
---> Beyond Scotch [10]: In which Lestrade tells Mycroft his decision.
Mycroft + Sherlock:
Orbit: Sherlock has been missing for 7 and a half hours. And if Mycroft is beginning to worry about him, he doesn't let on.
4 times Mycroft was an awesome big brother (and one time Sherlock was an awesome little brother.)
Millennium Mills: Mycroft loses it when Sherlock gets in trouble. Anthea is terrified.
What Keeps us Afloat: For once, Mycroft's power and connections can't fix the problem. A glance at the broken relationship between Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.
*** Peace: John comes to see Mycroft to show him something
Delete Me: After a heated fight, Mycroft asks Sherlock to delete him from his brain.
Driving Buddies: On reflection it had been a bad idea to distract his 11yr old brother with a bag of sweets
To Everything, There is a Season: Sherlock starts speaking very late
Ducks All in a Row: At eight years old, Sherlock Holmes had already chosen his future spouse.
*** The Bottom of the List: Mycroft Holmes knows his place in his brother's priorities.
Headache: Sherlock's got a headache, so he texts Mycroft.
Sherlock/Mycroft, rated T upwards:
Decadent: S/M/J, John learns by accident the true nature of the relationship between Mycroft and Sherlock, which is more than a brotherly one. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, because their perversity runs even deeper than that.
Before the Dawn: On the night before his fall, Sherlock goes to Mycroft with a request - and a farewell
Other Pairings, slash:
The Edge of a Coin: Jim/John, Sherlock didn't expect what he saw at the pool
Just an Old Friend: Sherlock Holmes/Victor Trevor, In which Sherlock has a secret boyfriend who finally meets John Watson.
Other Pairings, het:
Playing: Sherlock/Irene, Sherlock decides to embrace the chemicals
That is All: John/Sherlock, John/Mary; Sherlock breaks up with John and John moves on
Pack Up The Moon, Dismantle The Sun: John/Mary, John very slowly begins to move on
Who needs normal, anyway?: Sherlock/John (nonsexual), John/Mary Morstan (established), when Sherlock tells Mary that John is planning to propose, converstions about their relationships ensue
At the Zoo: Jeanette takes a class of kids to the zoo, John only takes Sherlock
Other Pairings rated T and upwards:
Sfumato: implied parent/child sexual abuse, Mycroft/Jim, Mycroft cannot shake the fear that he will spend the rest of his life listening for the footsteps of a man long dead echoing behind him.
Duel: Mycroft/Irene
femslash:
Water: Harry/Sarah; "Could we stop talking about your brother now, please?" Sarah says.
---> Dust: Clara cleans after the relationship ends
---> Juice: Harry has news when she meets with Clara
---> Put Asunder: Clara gets more news while going over the papers for what isn't a divorce
---> Any Just Cause: John/Lestrade, Sherlock/John, Harry/Sarah; Lestrade accompanies John to Harry and Sarah's CP
Lighthouses: Irene/Anthea, R, She knows she shouldn't still be here, but something compelled her to stay after watching John and Sherlock
Postcards: After Sherlock's death, John gets a postcard from South Africa and later one from Canada
The unknown shape of things: Molly/Anthea; Molly wants to make herself anew
John + Sebastian Moran:
*** Sunlight on a Broken Column: Jim was Moran's Sherlock - and John this understands all too well.
Rumors of death: Things get a bit more bearable for John after a visit from Sebastian Moran
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know: R, After the fall, John makes the acquaintance of Sebastian Moran. Similar griefs bring them together, but can one ever really escape the past?