Sherlock Fanfiction: Locked Rooms (Part II)

[saki101]

Title: Locked Rooms (Part II)
Author: Saki101
Genre: slash
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~1500 words
Warning: Spoilers for The Hounds of Baskerville.
Disclaimer: I don't own BBC's Sherlock and no money is being made.
Author's notes: This is a sequel to Locked Rooms (Part I) and part of the Experiments Series.

Earlier parts of the Experiments

Comments

[saki101]

...do you think he really understands and accepts the full weight of John's emotions?

No. I think Sherlock recognised the attraction and the bond between them more quickly than John did because he had additional information. Still, I think the implications and the complications of what they have embarked upon is not something he fully understands. I considered that part of the explanation for the emotional confusion in Hounds. I think Sherlock is caught offguard by his need for John when the drug starts affecting him, further surprised by John's unavailability and probably surprised by how often he is willing to follow John and apologise to him to get him back where he should be (in Sherlock's view) supporting Sherlock in whatever he needs.

I think there might need for a section or two between Closing the Back Door and Zygomata. Perhaps that would make a better fit. Closing finishes with the end of the TGG, but doesn't touch Scandal. Sherlock thinks about Irene in retrospect later, but I didn't address how the events in Scandal, which covers several important months of their lives together, affected John at all. I got distracted by ideas for Immunologoy, but I think it is an omission I should at least try to remedy, although I might not be able to get the tone correct to fit between the two at this much later date.

I was also thinking that I might do a part or two after Locked Rooms to get more thoroughly from Hounds to Fall. That John is still misunderstaning Sherlock and dashing off, shows that although a lot of harmony had been established, it was far from solid. On the other hand, too much investigation of the spaces between the scenes might bog down the momentum.

Your reading directly through this has gotten me to do the same and do some re-thinking and refining which needed doing. Thank you for re-motivating me to do that!!

[elmey]

do some re-thinking and refining which needed doing

I'm curious to see how you handle it, if you do add to the already written timeline. I see your view of the characters evolving as you keep writing them, I wonder to what extent that will effect what's already here. In any case, you're obviously still very inspired!