Fill: Interlude - Phone Calls

[pennin_ink]

Story Type: Prompt Fill
Fandom(s): Sherlock/The Swan Princess/Swan Lake
Characters: Sherlock, John, Mycroft, (ref) Ann Watson, (ref) Harry, (ref) Vienne Holmes
Pairings: Sherlock/John
Warnings: Soldier!John is sweary. Very, very sweary. And Sherlock manages the most erotic unerotic conversation I've ever seen.
Summary: Part Two in the Swan Triad,

Comments

[a_happy_panda]

So I've read it all until ch. 21... and I must say, these phone calls are actually my favorite. They are so longing and they love each other and they miss each other and... I can''t keep this love from spilling from my heart! It's so, so beautiful!

[pennin_ink]

Yeah, they were a treasure to write. Some of the easiest bits in the process, actually. There are certain moments in writing when you stop making stuff up and start basically taking diction.

SWAN!Sherlock and SWAN!John (for these are distinct characters sharing only a fleeting similarity with the boys on the show) basically took control here and all I had to do was type fast enough to keep up. I had no idea Sherlock was going to engage in his sex-less phonesex routine, for instance; and I also had no idea John was shipping out until the moment I wrote it. I was more caught up in remembering the eye caps I read about in Mary Roach's StiffI also didn't know the boys had developed a shorthand until I wrote it. Suddenly "Tell me" and "How much time" and "Don't say it" became touchstone phrases, some of which carried on long through the fic, particularly "Don't say it", which became Jim's favourite way to taunt John

[bellcheria]

LOUDER SHERLOCK LOL DEAD XDDDDD

LOL ITS SO CUTE HOW LITTLE THEY NEED TO GET OF LDNALJK XDD (sorry, capslock and key smashing is all I manage).
Omg omg omg and the next chapter says Coming home d;bkdhvydgoISLK.

[mtyugi]

MY HEART!!!!!! BUT THIS IS SOO WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!! XD THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS!!!!!!! :3

[aprilstarchild]

Okay, so I've read this whole triad in two days (including staying up until five am at one point) and this chapter is MY FAVORITE PART.

I don't think I can read the part that ends "Please for the love of god come home" part without having a huge rush of emotions that are hard to separate and name. It feels kinda like a tiny part of my heart is breaking and it's just perfect.

Typos? (Feel free to delete this comment afterwards)

[anonymous]

‘I try to stop them. They’re very PERSISTANT.’

‘At least their vocabulary is improving. Lorris’s last little addition was practically COHERANT.’

Re: Typos? (Feel free to delete this comment afterwards)

[pennin_ink]

Yep, I need a proofreader beta becausse I am CONSTANTLY messing up my e's and a's. Seriously, it's a problem.