Fic: Bel Canto - 7/16 (BBC Sherlock)

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Title: Bel Canto
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 8k out of 123.5ishk
Betas: vyctori, seijichan, lifeonmars
Disclaimer: Do not own.
Summary: After years of waiting for wealthy patrons to faint, Dr John Watson discovers a far more interesting patient in the opera house basement. (AU through a Phantom of the Opera lens.)
Warnings: Violence, internalized homophobia, eventual character

Comments

[call_me_ishmael]

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I knew this was bound to happen but it's like a kick to the stomach to read it.

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[call_me_ishmael]

fucking hell HOW DO YOU INVENT SO MANY GENIUS WAYS TO STOMP ON MY HEART

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I try very, very hard, you see.

[1trackmind]

Poor Sherlock. I don't know if it's better or worse when he realizes John's in love with his alter ego.

I'm curious how it will affect "Vernet." To keep the fiction in place it would have to affect him not at all but I don't know if Sherlock is capable of that.

I'm really enjoying this story. Thank you.

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Thank you! And no, Sherlock really isn't capable of that.

[ashnight_1214]

Ow. Ow! OW! This hurts my soul so much!! I know you'll save their hearts (and mine) as you do but in the meantime OW!

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XD Thanks!

[illereyn]

Oh no!

I can't imagine what will happen when John visits Vernet afterwards...

I wonder what Mrs Hudson, who knows about Lord Holmes and Vernet, will think?

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Thanks!

Mrs Hudson is very upset at her boys, generally.

[7hr3ven]

oh GOD, broken Sherlock is the most heart-wrenching thing ever. I'm just going to go over there and sob into something fuzzy.

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Thank you. I'm glad you have a fluzzy thing.