Title: All Our Gifts At Once, or, The Young Sea-Man
Pairings: John/Sherlock
Word count: around 38k total, about 13k for this chapter. yes, that is a strange ratio.
Rating: Mature
Notes: a naturalist transposition of the Little Mermaid (the original HCA story, not the Disney version): no magic, no tails, but plenty of pining. Victorian-era AU.
Summary: John longs for a life beyond the shipyards. It will cost him everything he has.
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