Fanfic Reading List: January 2012
Lord of the Rings:
The Gleaming Road: Faramir/Eomer, Denethor demands that Faramir sleep with Eomer and things develop from there
(Time to move on): Thorongil/Theoden, Thorongil is oblivious
Leavings: Gandalf the White/Radagast the Brown, before leaving Middle-earth, Gandalf pays a last visit to an old friend
Lord of the Rings RPF:
Faking It: Billy/Dom, after a kiss under the mistletoe, they decide to put on a show for the the rest of the crew...
Believe, Be Bold, Begin: Billy/Viggo, their relationship has a slow start
Merlin:
Don't Leave Me Alone Here: Arthur/Merlin, reveal, Arthur has his heart broken for the first time
Noblesse oblige: Arthur/Merlin, on a trip to the northern borders, Arthur is bitten by a snake
The saddest day: Gwaine/Merlin, Arthur/Merlin , Gwaine comforts Merlin on Arthur's wedding day and later helps fix things
(Mistletoe): Merlin/Arthur, Elena/Gwaine, Elena plots to get both herself and Arthur kissed under the mistletoe.
Opposite Day: Arthur/Merlin, Arthur is cursed and can only say the opposite of what he wants to say
Merlin RPF:
Call It Love: The series ends and Bradley still hasn't confessed his feelings to Colin
New Year's: Bradley/Colin, Colin/Katie, Bradley/Colin/Katie, Bradley can't stop watching Katie and Colin dancing on the balcony.
It Feels Like the End of the World (with you): Bradley/Colin, angst, things happen even though they know better
The Beatles RPF:
Judas Kiss: John/Paul
Rutting Fish Syndrome: John/Paul, sex doesn't go that well
We'll always have Paris 2: John/Paul, the three visits to Paris
Snapshots: John/Paul, Linda's take on them through photos
Doctor Who:
When a Prisoner isn't a Prisoner: a new companion meets River
BBC Sherlock:
Five Times Jim Moriarty Kissed John Watson (And One Time John Kissed Back):
My Heart Was Very Still:
***Traditional :A Holmesian Christmas dinner, with daemons.
"Auld Acquaintance": sequel to Traditional
The Box: The Box is not that large, really. It scares John sometimes, just how fast it is filling up. depression
Indelicate Negotiations: Sherlock/Mycroft
Driving John Insane: John's surprised to discover that Sherlock has a driving licence.
Brotherly Bargains:
*** Throw It All At Me: Sherlock is upset (Baskerville)
***Declaration Of Romantic Intent:
*** Little Monster: How Mycroft felt about Sherlock when they were children
Oryctolagus Cuniculus: sequel to Little Monster
*** Voulez-Vous: Sherlock's French phase
--->***L'ultima vertigine: Sherlock's Italian phase
--->*** L’ultima vertigine (Chapter 2): Most people would count going to the opera and being serenaded as grand romantic gestures. For John Watson, it’s just Sherlock’s Italian phase.
Old Friends: Sherlock's skull is actually Sherlock's Skull
Comfort:
Grasp: Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock (Sherlock/John implied), Sometimes it's the smallest evidence that is most telling
Commodities of the Abstract Sort: Lestrade meets Mycroft for the first time
Captain Sherlock Holmes of the Good Ship Borealis: Sherlock's playground as a child
Road Hazards: Mycroft teaches Sherlock to drive
(John's Monster): Sherlock is John's Monster
Always After Dark: John's Monster takes a risk for him
The Reichenbach Ballad: John dreams after Sherlock's death
The Long Game: Sherlock kicks John out to keep him safe
I'm Just Wild About Harry: Harry has a word to say about Sherlock kicking John out
j: Sherlock deals with his feelings after kicking John out and Harry helps John cope
The Long Game - The Final Chapter: Sherlock and John make up
The Regent's Park Regulars : John and Sherlock as park birds
In the Brief Clasp of Your Hand: Monogamy induced by misanthropy
That's What People Do: Sherlock keeps John's watch
Naturally: Four things John thinks come naturally to Sherlock and one reason why it appears that way.
Freely Given:
At the Heart Of The Palace: John is at the center of Sherlock's Mind Palace
A Little Messy: Sherlock causes a panic on the tube. Lestrade is involved by default.
The No Word.: Lestrade/Mycroft, "I don't do what your brother tells me"
Brotherly Love: Mycroft makes Sherlock kiss him
A Touch and A Scar:
A Study In Reflexology: John takes care of Sherlock's injured foot despite his flatmate's reluctance, kink
Chasing the Dragon: John catches Sherlock smoking opium
*** Revelation Resolution: Mycroft visits Sherlock as he watches over an injured John and they decide to take revenge on Moriarty
The Good Soldier: John deals with who he is and with his depression
Restaurant at the end of the Universe: Sherlock lets Irene know about his plans to "get killed" so that John will be safe
I hit you once, you hit me back…": John plans his revenge for Sherlock's little experiment in Baskerville
On Maggots: Sherlock/Lestrade
no light, no light: Caring is not an advantage; Jim plays Mycroft until they both bleed and the ice melts.
A Convenient Fiction: why Sherlock is so distrusting of Mycroft despite the obvious care and protection Mycroft affords him.
***The three deductions of Dr John Watson: John knows what Sherlock feels better than Sherlock himself does
The Scandal of Baskerville Falls: John's Declaration:
The Fallen and the Falling: Sherlock takes care of John after a friend's funeral
Draft: After the Reichenbach Fall John reads the last messages on Sherlock's phone.
Zygomata : John gets distracted by Sherlock's cheekbones while he should have noticed other things
Believe Me to Be…: John wakes from a coma to find all his adventures with Sherlock were only a dream
*** A Good Man: Lestrade goes to see John after Sherlock's death, suicide plans
A Matter Of Convenience: Sherlock catches John watching gay porn
A Matter Of Convenience (2/3)
A Matter Of Convenience (3/3)
The Calm and the Storm: Sherlock and John's first row after they got together
John: Sherlock after John's death
Repeat Loop: John gets a visit from Irene after Sherlock's death
Doubt: After the events of The Reichenbach Fall, Lestrade has doubts.
Faith:There are things he can’t say, can’t tell Ella in the privacy of her office, simply because he’d only ever wanted to say them to one person
***The Mourning Woman: Molly takes care of business, after the fall
Detonate: R, Sherlock's too clever to have missed the signals.
Counting: Moriarty had ended his tally one name too soon.
Some Promises: There are things Molly Hooper can't do, not even for Sherlock Holmes.
*** A Guilty Man: Sherlock goes to Mycroft for his assistance, and they settle some scores.
*** Scotch: Mycroft cleaning up
---> Scotch, the Third:
---> Scotch, the Fourth:In which Mycroft and Lestrade have a conversation about a Stradivarius.
---> Scotch, the Sixth: Lestrade encounters Molly. Oh, and then there's chess.
---> Scotch, Examined (7): Lestrade meets John for a couple of pints. Revelations follow.
To Play The Fool: The Holmes brothers' plans
Security Minded: John tries to get Sherlock through airport security without incident
Invite Me to the War: Mycroft invites Sherlock and Jim to his and John's wedding
Soon: The cigarettes are the first clue.
Of Which Reason Knows Nothing: Sherlock watches John sleep
Dreaming men are haunted men: John's sleep is haunted and he starts thinking he is imagining things
(Funeral): John can't help himself after he sees how calm Mycroft is at the funeral
stabat mater: Molly starts finding out when Mycroft makes her get into the car with him and Sherlock
A Study in Mourning: John waits and gets on with his life during the three years Sherlock takes to come back
The Ghost of Manchester: There are sightings of someone who looks like Sherlock in Manchester so John and Lestrade go to investigate
-------------------------> The Ghost of Manchester: Chapter Two
-------------------------> The Ghost of Manchester: Chapter Three
Playing dead: Sherlock turns up on John's doorstep unexpectedly with a bullet in his shoulder
-------------------------> Playing dead: Chapter two. :
*** Beneath the pine: John spends a year nearly coping, keeping those words inside, suicide attempt
Beneath the Pine (2/3)
Beneath the Pine 3/3
-------------------------> A Consulting Detective and His Chicken.:
Archenemies: Mycroft finds he has a new archenemy
Action Man: He’d known long ago that Sherlock would never see forty.
I reach for you and you’ll never let me go: Sherlock feels John take his pulse
"Hold Tight": Lestrade comes home one night to find an unexpected visitor in his flat.
The Keeper: John can't say it
Something for the Rag and Bone Man: talking to Ella
What I Did For Love: the perspectives of Sherlock and John in the final moments
come and find me: John finds out Sherlock kept his fingerprint
Stand Alone Among the Wreck: John takes care of the irregulars
Keeping the Secret: Molly hopes to comfort John while keeping Sherlock’s secret.
Voice Of Reason: Lestrade goes to Bart's and talks with John
Puppets: Greg Lestrade dealing with his team after the end of the ep.
John Watson, Bachelor: Episode 1 :
The Inexact Science of Miracles: Sherlock replies to John's wish for a miracle
***Minds Like Ours Dream Up: John can't write up the case until he finds out why. He needs to write their story true.
No Light No Light: Sherlock is one day too late, suicide
My Dear Watson: John discovers a note taped to the bottom of his mattress, propelling him on a hunt for answers that may not exist at all.
Time To Choose A Side: Lestrade chose a side a long time ago.
Enough: Understanding between brothers
Unravelling: Mycroft starts to put the world back to rights.
In the Dead of Night (There is a box): In the dead of night, Sherlock allows himself this one weakness
Folding, Unfolding, Refolding: Between London and Berlin, Molly starts truely being a friend
Paranoid Much?: Sherlock finds out about Mystrade. He is not happy. He is paranoid though.
My note, a red stain beating on your chest: When John can't stand it any longer, he sees a message from Sherlock from the roof
Learned Behaviours: John follows in his family's footsteps
Timing: It only took Mycroft 20 minutes to realize he was in love with Gregory Lestrade. It was 4 years and 3 weeks before he actually told him.
Timing: It took Sherlock 4 years and 3 weeks to realize he loved John Watson. It only took him 20 minutes to tell him.
On Invisibility: Molly Hooper isn't anyone special.
Volunteers: Molly and Lestrade spend New Year's Eve at the morgue
---> The Time Was Wrong: Sherlock had asked more of Molly than either of them realised. Sequel to Volunteers
EXP: Norway: John and Sherlock take a holiday in Norway. NC-17
The Iceman: Mycroft/Lestrade
Hidden Inside My Head: Five ways Sherlock imagined his and John's reunion to be, and the one way it actually went down.
The Sense of Guilt: Mycroft/Sherlock, John/Lestrade; Mycroft, feeling entirely responsable for Sherlock's death, just stops eating.
“As I Ever Was”: The events on the moor bring about some changes for Sherlock and Lestrade.
Spelled Out In Lights: Christmas decorations in 221B
Five times Sherlock was wrong.:
Inventing It: Sherlock saves John when he attempts suicide (twice)
Can't Be His Boyfriend: AU, everybody thinks Sherlock made up his boyfriend
Just a Magic Trick
Dinner for the Undead: Sherlock and Irene get together in the land of the not-so-dead-when-it-comes-down-to-it.
---> Dessert for the Undead: Sherlock gets his Undeads' Club membership card.
Drinks for the Undead: Irene and Sherlock meet for drinks somewhere in Europe.
Mortal Man: JOhn made Sherlock human
Silence Isn't Always a Bad Thing: Lestrade is called to the Diogenes Club by persons unknown.
---> Silence Isn't Always a Bad Thing, Chapter 2
The Sigerson Letters: John gets e-mails from a Jeremy Sigerson showing support
I'm Not What I Am: After hours of seeking, John finds Sherlock in a bar. Drug abuse
***Shield Me: Sherlock pulls John out of the river
Lull Before the Strom: Lestrade arrives at the Club to help Mycroft deal with John's confrontation.
All Return Again: On Mycroft's question, John becomes a killer to avenge Sherlock
---> All Return Again (2/2): Sherlock finds John's gun and makes the obvious deduction
Gardening Leave: Lestrade works things through
Of breathplay, violins and shooting: Sherlock wants that gun, and he will do whatever it takes to get it.
Penance: Mycroft Holmes's selling out his brother's life story to a man he knew was certifiably obsessed does not sit well with an ex-soldier not thinking clearly from grief.
***Take a Sad Song and Make it Better: There is a song that is the rhythm and melody of John Watson’s life and it is that song that carries him through this just it has any other time in his life.
#imwithsherlock: they get support from the Internet
Spring in Marrakesh: Sherlock crashes at Irene's place for one night
In The Business Of Flowers & Chocolates: Something is wrong with Sherlock Holmes.
*** Their Law: Mycroft, Sherlock; It was this law they made for themselves, a law that said: Pretend to hate each other.
Realizations: Sherlock makes his plans
---> Voice Of Reason: Lestrade finds out and talks to John
---> Request: Lestrade takes care of John and gets a letter from Sherlock
---> Restitution: Mycroft gets a visit from Irene
---> Raison d'être: John goes to the roof and realises things
My hero bares my side and sees his heart: A short ficlet about love and heroics, based on a Dylan Thomas poem
*** As Though His Heart Were Breaking:John has an unexpected visitor. He holds it together until the evening
Birthday: John bakes Sherlock a birthday cake
*** Waking Hour: John gets shot during a chase
Follow My Voice: Sherlock’s pushed himself too far and can’t relax enough to sleep. John has to help him
***The Syntax of Things: Sherlock is ftm
Tea and Biscuits: Mycroft calls at 221B and accidentally ends up having tea with Mrs Hudson.
Danger Night: John/Lestrade, Lestrade asks John over for a video night the help, Sherlock returns
***the sensation of falling as you just hit sleep: John stays with Harry
Sherlock, And the Cat Came Back : A cat adopts John after Reichenbach
The Horror Nights: Every family should bond. The Holmes brothers are no different. The only difference is that they don't know they are bonding.
The Tears Keep Falling: Sherlock Holmes returns to an unwanted surprise. character death
The Space Between: In which Lestrade deals with the aftermath of the events showcased in TRF, vis-a-vis the other Holmes brother.
*** The Uncanny Mrs Hudson: Mrs Hudson deals with her killer
A Pocket Full of Wool (Deduction is Easy): Sherlock has met his match in one of Mrs. Hudson’s old friends. He really shouldn’t under-estimate little fluffy old ladies who solve crimes on their free time.
I watch you while you sleep
Untitled Document: John makes his deductions about his reactions to Sherlock
Hidden in plain sight: John is good at hiding. Himself and some of his emotions.
Not Today: John finds himself envying the patients that die
"Ports in a Storm": Talking with John on the roof of his house, Lestrade wonders why Sherlock didn't trust them.
Four paths to the afterlife (and one dead end)
Confession: Mycroft has many regrets, but none so much as the way in which he let down his younger brother in the worst way.
Aftermath:
Thousand (and John doesn't want any of them) :
It doesn't get any better:
An Honest Mistake (Or: Five Arguments Sherlock and John Have Had, and One They Didn't):
Three Stages: Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. John's never liked magic.
The colour of tea: John comes home to Sherlock tinkering about
And The Racket They Made: John doesn't feel
Hallucinate Me Alive: John wakes to find a surprised visitor watching him; could it really be him?
Perception: He doesn't tell anyone when he figures out he has ADD, because he knows the way people think.
Intersect (across the multiverse): At the moment they believe their Holmes is dead at Reichenbach, all Watsons in every universe connect, just for a split second, through their shock and grief.
A parcel o' rogues: John in ancestral garb...
Tapes: Mycroft has surveillance videos and brings them to Lestrade.
I’ll show you mine…: “I need to see your penis! It’s urgent”
Not Much, No: Mycroft has security surveillance everywhere doesn't he?
---> Se divisi fummo in terra…
(--->) The Truth is Out There: Lestrade shows John the footage from the CCTV on Bart's roof
I Think I'm Going to Die: "What if I'm psychic?" Sherlock asked, chewing his lip. "What if I'm going to die falling off a waterfall?"
Deductions of Sleep: Sherlock talks in his sleep.
Ella: Sherlock nicks the umbrella from the British government to make sure John stays dry
When you fell (you fell towards me):JOhn faints when he sees Sherlock
***Ash, Gold, Quartz : Magical realism AU. Moriarty burns the heart out of Sherlock. John builds him a new one.
Simple Math: five times John woke up to find a cup of tea waiting for him, and one time he found Sherlock instead.
For the first and the last time: When John's life crashes around him for the second time, he starts hoping Sherlock isn't dead
---> The Horror of the Thing:
---> Under the Supervision of Mycroft Holmes
---> With a Heavy Heart
Consternation: Sherlock sees people wonder about them and decides to test the theory
A story in which Sherlock isn’t dead and John has got a pet: When Sherlock returns, John has a dragon
*** Chiaroscuro: triggery! Sherlock works through his childhood memories
Truly, madly, deeply: John wonders why he sticks around
Black and white: How they see each other
Please: After John discovers that Sherlock is a virgin, Sherlock asks John to have sex with him.
It's best to ignore him when he's like this...: Sherlock is bored, John feels like punching him...so just another usual Tuesday morning...
Blackmail: John finds a blackmail film of Sherlock wanting to be a pirate
You still haunt me...: John finds hints in the newspaper ads
Intimate Introduction to Human Sexuality (Sherlock Style): Sherlock wants John. John wants Sherlock (to stop with the bad puns).
Alive: A few months will go by, in which John is able to convince himself he was making the whole thing up, and then there it is again; that feeling of being watched, of being observed.
*** The Adventure of the Rainbow Flutter: John's gay American military secret comes to town. Sherlock only pretends to find it dull.
Graduation: Sherlock/John, Hamish Watson-Holmes/Bradley James (not RPF)
Behind the name: Lestrade/Mycroft, Six times Lestrade was asked about his name and the one time he wasn’t
*** Code: When Sherlock picks at Mycroft's weight, it's his way of checking up on his big brother because Mycroft has the habit of stress-eating.
Of Nightmares and Ghosts: John has now only nightmares to keep him company.
Eye of the Storm: How Mycroft found out about Sherlock's death
Beep: Sherlock is bored and has an unlimted text plan.
Information Overload: Why Sherlock avoids public transport
***Adventures in Adolescence:
Surrogates: Mycroft's freezer full of Sherlock-cicles, through Anthea's eyes
Texting and Scones: Sherlock realizes he feels something more for John during an extended absence. Needy!Sherlock abounds.
*** The Man to Whom Nothing Ever Happened: Mummy Holmes is M
On the Necessity of Endings: Sherlock likes marking John
Aargh!: Sherlock and John go to a fancy dress party.
Lamb: Sherlock is drugged and John can't resist. Non-con! Dark!John. NC-17.
The Sock Index: While searching the flat, John disturbs the Sock Index
Letters of Intent: Declarations between the different characters
Helping John: Mrs Hudson asks Lestrade to check on John.
Try To Control Me: Mrs. Hudson has a case for Sherlock
*** The Great Detective: Sherlock reads John's memoires
*** Hold It Against Me: Sherlock looks up pick up lines on the Internet to use on John
***Leavetaking: While in a new safehouse, Mycroft and Sherlock talk about Sherlock's caring about John
*** An Actor and a Rare One: John knew all along but they have to say goodbye
His Heart: Sherlock has a very high fever, and is attended by John.
*** Rien ne va plus: Mrs. Hudson comes to investigate why they haven't went up the stairs
*** A Hypothetical Conversation: Everyone is always assuming that John has a romantic interest in Sherlock. Sherlock decides to ask John for himself.
Home Is When I'm Alone With You: The morning after Sherlock returns home
Living Low: Fresh air is supposed to help
***Experimenting: John asks about Irene and they decide to experiment
Apathy...: Sherlock doesn't really feel like solving that case