Sherlock: Paint Fumes

[awanderingbard]

Title: Paint Fumes
Characters: Sarah, John, Sherlock, Abby, Gladstone
Rating: PG
Warnings/Triggers: some discussion of an alcoholic relative
Spoilers: none
Pairings: John/Sarah
Word Count 5,323
Summary: The Watson Household is infiltrated by a distressed Consulting Detective for the night.
Author's notes: Set in the Abby 'verseA very lovely person

Comments

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I love this story so much! I love the dialogue in the opening scene-well, in all the scenes, really. I love the idea of Sherlock growing up with Abby (and assimilating!). I love John and Sarah together, and the place they've made for Sherlock, and all the love and affection.

[awanderingbard]

Oh, good, I'm glad you liked it! I've never had a chance to carry a verse along with proper development and stuff, so I'm glad it's working for you.

Thanks for reading and commenting!

[shadowfireflame]

Yay yay yay, more Abby-verse!!!

Abby isn't old enough to be responsible for Sherlock.

Hee, this line! I adore all the ineractions bewteen John and Sarah, how they playfully make fun of themselves and their lives together. :)

“I wouldn't want you to get a big head,” Sherlock replied.

Which, Sarah noted, was not a no, really.

Awwww, she’s right, of course!

“He's got a surprisingly low brow sense of humour. Loves a good pun, he does,” John explained.

This is so accurate! He loves grammar jokes too.

“He earned that status through blackmail and deceit,” Sherlock said. “It wasn't handed to him.”

Laughing so hard at this line. It’s almost like Sherlock is secretly a little proud of Mycroft. :)

He had recently undergone extensive reconstructive surgery to save his life, having his broken talking mechanisms removed and replaced with proper batting. Mrs Hudson had made him a waistcoat to cover some of the sutures in his chest.

This is really cute, and I love how the stitches are called “sutures.” So sweet.

Sarah always received

[awanderingbard]

This line was hysterical.

That's something my brother used to do. When he was little, he'd wake my mum up to tell her he was going to or had been to the bathroom, but when she worked nights, he never bothered my dad. :P

John’s not the only one who needs a family.

I think this verse's theme is basically 'you make your own family', and both John and Sherlock have done a pretty good job with that so far.

Thanks for reading and commenting! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Your writing is too clever <3

[ext_2635289]

Love all the anecdotes (all Sarah's little quips, Sherlock's blatant inattention to poor Mrs. H, the attack on Sherlock's poshness, and Abby's cheerful bladder announcements). I really like the way you write Sarah. Out of curiosity, is John/Sarah a serious ship of yours and how do you feel about John/Mary?

Re: Your writing is too clever <3

[awanderingbard]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the story!

I very much enjoyed Sarah and I was sad she didn't stick around for longer, but the reason she's the mother in this verse is that it started before Series Three, and I didn't want to make my own Mary in case the show brought her in and she was very different from how I'd imagined her. So, I used Sarah, who I liked, instead. I'm not much of a shipper in general, or I don't have the strong ships that other people do, but I did like Sarah, and I enjoyed writing my version of her and John.

I have nothing against John and Mary. She's not the Mary I would have hoped the show would have brought in, but she didn't end up being as bad as I had feared the show might make her. The show left off in a spot that makes it hard to write for it, even more so than Series Two did, so I haven't had much in the way of plot bunnies for them.

Thanks for commenting!