Fic: Stranger at the Gate - 5/11 (BBC Sherlock)

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Title: Stranger at the Gate
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 8.6k this part, 81k overall
Beta: seijichan
Disclaimer: Do not own.
Summary: As far as initiation rites go, kidnapping a human doctor from a defended town ought to seem extreme. When James Moriarty offers him the challenge, Sherlock never considers saying no. (Fantasy vampire AU)
Warnings: Vampires, blood,

Comments

[idestined]

*UPDATE ALREADY?
I love you so much :D So quickly *-* (thought I'd die in the wait... xD it is that good)
/starts reading

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Thanks!

[alltoseek]

I did not even get a chance to comment on the previous part - but this is better; I get to be one of the first ;-)

I have faith. Sherlock is smart; John tenacious. they will figure it out. May there be plenty of angst along the way! :D

I like that John was so immediately intense when he realised the truth about Sherlock - did not let his emotions cloud him. Poor Sherlock - not used to being so hated and feared - but he is manipulative for all that - unashamedly so.

Sherlock walking such a fine line here, all of it new to him.

So the humans know about holly but not about water?

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John's got good soldiering instincts - Sherlock's just that good of a liar. And yeah, it's all incredibly new to him.

They know about the holly because it's a visible and obvious thing. If someone's skin turns a color and they start screaming, that's a bit obvious. Water is just cold and plenty of people get cold/sickly and so on because this is a pre-industrial/vaguely-approaching-industrial world. In many areas, water is still not terribly safe to drink, so someone refusing to drink water isn't out of the ordinary. Up north where they are, contact with vamps is largely the raiding in the east where Moriarty's people kidnap humans who are never seen again. Not really a good recon situation. As for communication down south, well, that's dangerous because There Be Sirens.

[jordan_frog]

DOOMED. They are DOOMED. I want to huggle them close and sing like, the vampire-human version of ebony & ivory. Poor fools. You write them so well.

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That's a lot of DOOM. Thanks!

[seijichan]

Ugh, how did all this plot development get in my hot adolescent vampire porn?

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I don't know. How did all that porn get into my adolescent vampire plot?

[allonymity]

Great chapter - especially love Sherlock's interactions (both positive and negative) with Harry. And I'm not sure who's the more lovesick fool - John for saving the handkerchief or Sherlock for wanting to steal it. Looking forward to more!

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Thanks! Harry's pretty great fun to write. As for who's more the lovesick fool, probably Sherlock for not running the hell away.