Fic: "Signs Following" (Sherlock, Sherlock/John, Bone-Fiddle-verse casefic, NC-17/E)
originally posted to AO3 on 7/28/2017. Latest update 2/14/2018
Title: Signs Following
Chapters: 8/?
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: as of chapter 8, PG-13/Teen. Will be NC-17/Explicit
Tags/Warnings:
Appalachia, Historical - 1970s, Snakes, Religion, religious homophobia, Canon-Typical Violence, Appalachian Folklore, Folk Medicine, Faith Healing, snakebite, Story: The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Allusions to Family Abuse, Established Relationship, Established Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Snake-Handling
Summary: 1976. Bone Fiddle-verse; Appalachian AU. A couple years into their relationship, John and Sherlock are cozily setting up for spring with Mrs. Hudson's expert guidance when a distraught young woman appeals to them for help and sends them on one of their strangest cases yet - in order to solve one murder and prevent another, they must tangle with a sinister preacher and enter the much-sensationalized, little-understood world of Pentecostal Holiness believers who strictly observe Mark 16: 17-18.
(And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.)
Story is loosely modeled on "The Adventure of the Speckled Band."
Signs Following, full story
latest update: Chapter 8 - The Hour is Come, the Feast Is Nigh
Written for significanceofmoths for the 2017 Fandom Trumps Hate auction!
Title: Signs Following
Chapters: 8/?
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: as of chapter 8, PG-13/Teen. Will be NC-17/Explicit
Tags/Warnings:
Appalachia, Historical - 1970s, Snakes, Religion, religious homophobia, Canon-Typical Violence, Appalachian Folklore, Folk Medicine, Faith Healing, snakebite, Story: The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Allusions to Family Abuse, Established Relationship, Established Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Snake-Handling
Summary: 1976. Bone Fiddle-verse; Appalachian AU. A couple years into their relationship, John and Sherlock are cozily setting up for spring with Mrs. Hudson's expert guidance when a distraught young woman appeals to them for help and sends them on one of their strangest cases yet - in order to solve one murder and prevent another, they must tangle with a sinister preacher and enter the much-sensationalized, little-understood world of Pentecostal Holiness believers who strictly observe Mark 16: 17-18.
(And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.)
Story is loosely modeled on "The Adventure of the Speckled Band."
Signs Following, full story
latest update: Chapter 8 - The Hour is Come, the Feast Is Nigh
Written for significanceofmoths for the 2017 Fandom Trumps Hate auction!