Awakening

[chocolamousse]

Title: Awakening
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Category: Romance
Rating: PG-13
Beta: The brilliant arianedevere
Word count: 869
Translation into Chinese available here (thank you, Lowtension!), into Czech available here (thank you, miamam!) and into Russian available here and here (thank you, Little_Unicorn!).
Summary: In which not a word is uttered but many things

Comments

[verityburns]

Oh, I am melting... MELTING!

I'm so glad that you continued 'Nightwatch', that's perfect, and this is just the most beautiful thing. You have such a gift for the 'little moments' - the quiet times when nothing is happening, and yet everything is happening.

I had a suspicion that Ari's recent emails contained an element of hidden glee... now I know why! She knew this was headed my way, and she knew that I'd be squished into a squishy pile of squishiness as a result :D

Thank you so much, my very dear Chocola - you're raising the 'birthday bar' terribly high... I'm not sure the usual gifts of socks and the kids' favourite chocolate are going to be able to compete!

Verity, xxx

[chocolamousse]

I have reduced Verity Burns to a squishy pile of squishiness. I think I can be proud of my work! :D

I'm so happy you like it! Do you remember that when I posted The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of you asked for a sequel? Well, actually Awakening is this sequel too because the three stories form a trilogy in my mind: first The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (John has fallen in love with Sherlock, Sherlock loves him too but doesn't realise yet), then Nightwatch (Sherlock has realised but doesn't know it's reciprocal) and now Awakening, the happy ending. In fact it's only today that I remembered that John's nightmare about the cabbie killing Sherlock is in The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of and not in Nightwatch.*sighs* Anyway, you have two happy endings in one fic. Am I not a giver? :D

Ariane was a very lovely beta (but I don't need to tell you that), she's as patient as you are with tiresome non-native speakers who quibble over every word and ask dozens of silly questions. Lucky for me. :D

Happy birthday again!

[anarion]

Yay, a happy ending! *bounces*

Also, I had to go and read 'Nightwatch' again. *melts*

Also, you wrote a trilogy! That's totally advanced fic writing! Congrats! :)

Fave line: and something very fragile and very precious will be destroyed, maybe forever.
Because it wasn't!

[anarion]

Ok, what is it with me and your journal? It always takes all my structures out and leaves everything in one paragraph. *pouts*

[chocolamousse]

Don't worry, it doesn't matter! Actually each new paragraph is indicated with an indent, like in Verity's comment or yours, or with a line space, like in Ariane's. No idea why it's not the same form for everybody. It's a MYSTERY.

[chocolamousse]

Yes, I wrote a trilogy. I see myself as the Peter Jackson of Sherlock fanfiction. Except of course I'm much better than Peter Jackson because at least in my trilogy nobody dies at the end. Especially not Smaug. In my version Smaug becomes a stunningly beautiful man who is coincidentally Benedict Cumberbatch's spitting image and then he and Bilbo... Sorry. I might have wandered off a bit. In a word, hooray for happy endings! :D

Also I'm sorry I made you re-read Nightwatch. *lies shamelessly*

[arianedevere]

Ariane was a very lovely beta

Really? I thought I was like Arthur Shappey on peach schnapps. *whispers* I was terrifying!

But it was fun - and I tell you what, gang, working with a not-first-language English speaker is amazing - it really makes you think about your everyday language and consider why you say certain things that you just take for granted.

Plus, of course, I got to see this a couple of days before everyone else. And I knew the story would be amazing when I was already filling up with tears at the bloody summaryI'm so proud of you, Choco - your writing improves with every story (and it was bloody brilliant to start with), and you have a natural ability to get inside the heads and hearts of your characters and show us what they're thinking and feeling, with such a beautiful soft narrative voice that I find myself leaning closer to the screen to listen

[chocolamousse]

Really? I thought I was like Arthur Shappey on peach schnapps. *whispers* I was terrifying!
You were terrifyingly lovely, if you prefer. :D

You're a very lacrymal person, aren't you? I give you pining, you cry. I give you UST, you cry. I give you fluff, you cry. I give you happy endings, you cry. It's only when I give you a celeriac and aliens that you don't cry. But it's fine. Tears and wibbling are very good to my ego. :D Thank you again for your very patient and very helpful beta-ing, you've been adorable!

you have a natural ability to get inside the heads and hearts of your characters
Well, for want of getting inside their bed...

[verityburns]

Yeah, she cried a lot when I sent her 5,000 word chapters which had enough random punctuation to render half of tumblr grammatically correct.

It must be an eye problem - I wouldn't worry about it :D

[chocolamousse]

By the way, she didn't delete any comma in the fic this time. And she added only two. I was rather proud. I think I start to master this comma isssue. :D

[yoshtam]

This is lovely!!
*Clicks on the link to go read Nightwatch*

Happy Birthday Verity!!!

[chocolamousse]

Thank you very much! I hope you liked Nightwatch too.

[chocolamousse]

But it's just the beginning of THEM.
You're so right, and you say that so well!

I remember your comment to Nightwatch, you said that John had no nightmares when Sherlock was there because his soul felt his presence. You see, you were right! :-)

Thank you very much for your very lovely words.