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Fic Rec: What John Knows

May 28, 2016 23:51

Title: What John Knows
Author: Lariope
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 7,800 words
Rating: E
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John tries to take on a case of his own. The results are not quite what he expected.

Reccer's comments: This is a very interesting and lovely post-Reichenbach fic. It does something that I' ( Read more... )

genre: case fic, verse: sherlock bbc, pairing: jw/sh, character: john watson, genre: slash m/m, genre: angst, character: sherlock holmes, genre: romance, content: post-fall, genre: first time

Comments 1

snarryfool May 31 2016, 13:57:51 UTC

I don't think I've seen this shaken Sherlock elsewhere, either - almost surprising, isn't it? Because once you've seen the premise it seems entirely plausible. Moriarty's trap at the end of TRF strikes me as just exactly the sort of thing that would trash Sherlock's confidence in himself.

Off the top of my head I can think of several fics that take seriously the damage TRF and the subsequent separation do both John and Sherlock; how I wish the showrunners had done likewise! Alas, they seem determined to trivialize or at least undervalue/underexplore all the richest potential of their own show.