Fic: Bel Canto - 12/16 (BBC Sherlock)

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Title: Bel Canto
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 7.6k out of 126k
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

[labellecreation]

Stunning, yet there is such a feeling of impending tragedy. The opera sounds amazing- I wonder how London will receive such a daring and maybe contraversial work.

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Thank you!

[rifleman_s]

”…these he gave freely to a stranger in the dark. He’s not sure how, honestly, only that Vernet had told him what his opera needed and John had responded in the only way that made sense at the time.”

What an absolutely absorbing chapter - rather like listening to a piece of music that starts off slowly and quietly and builds to an enormous crescendo.

” The search continues. Carefully handling one sheet, Holmes studies the drying ink. “It’s finished.””

So John truly is the muse . . .

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Thanks!

He's the conductor of light, you know.

[rachelindeed]

Hmmm. This chapter made me think of this exchange from "The Reichenbach Fall

[rachelindeed]

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They turn the corner. “I wasn’t kidding about the ghost coming after you.”

“I’ll move my valuables and beware of smoke bombs.”

*dies*

He smiles at Mr Johnson and Mrs Hudson, but, as John reaches the door, says, “Dr Watson, surely someone is in need of you elsewhere.”Maddening, yes, but Mycroft loves his brother and John hurt him and John will therefore be elegantly eviscerated at every opportunity. This is so Mycroft's brand of antagonism