Need more kid!fic
anonymous
May 29 2011, 08:08:18 UTC
I want to read more fics with Sherlock/John as parents.
It's difficult bringing up children. Aside from it costing money and taking up all of your time, it also requires you to make difficult decisions when it comes to raising them right.
Sherlock and John find it hard to balance children with their everyday lives. At first, Sherlock gives up consulting, but John can see him slowly going mad and demands he go back to work. So then John stays at home, but he gets lonely and misses out on all the fun.
John hates that he's become the bad guy who enforces discipline, whilst Sherlock is the 'fun' one who never tells them off. They find themselves arguing over the right thing to do.
I just want to see some family-angst where Sherlock thinks that everything's fine but really John is not happy. Bonus!points if John brings it up and it completely destroys the view Sherlock had of his own family. How could he not have known that John was so unhappy?
As long as you make it all better by them sorting through things.
Re: Need more kid!ficjellybean728May 29 2011, 18:00:18 UTC
I love this prompt. It's not that I don't love the stories where John & Sherlock raise kids and it's all wonderful and their kids grow up brilliant and kind, because I do.
But being a good parent is the hardest job anyone can have....and I'd love to see some fic that recognizes that.
Warning: Mpreg (only a bit!) and baby!fic which will grow up to be kid!fic, oh yes it will (1/?)tawabidsMay 31 2011, 05:25:51 UTC
When magic came into the world, an awful lot of things changed. There were accountants who woke up one moon to discover they were werewolves and politicians forced to admit to their constituents that they might be witches. There were youths stolen by fairies and rest home patients who could read minds a thousand miles away. There was a lot of hurried legislation to write and quite a lot of marital breakdowns, but most people managed to escape with their lives relatively unchanged.
John and Sherlock were not in the latter category. The first time John got pregnant, it was rather a shock, in fact. They had barely prepared themselves before the squalling child was delivered (six pounds one ounce) by a confused junior doctor. He was brought into the world in a bloody caesarean mess behind a curtain in a shared ward, because by the time Sherlock convinced the doctors that yes, honestly, we’ve been doing tests for sometime now and there is a baby in there, it was too late to find arrange a private room
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Warning: baby!fic which will grow up to be kid!fic, oh yes it will (2/?)tawabidsMay 31 2011, 05:28:20 UTC
Sherlock stormed off, slamming his bedroom door, and Geoffrey began to howl. John couldn’t get him to stop until Sherlock reappeared like a phantasm at his elbow, his hair askew. Together they hummed the choruses of various show tunes (alternating to a new one as soon as one of them forget the rest of the melody) until the baby settled into weepy hiccoughs
( ... )
Re: Warning: baby!fic which will grow up to be kid!fic, oh yes it will (2/?)tawabidsJune 2 2011, 12:13:44 UTC
Thank you darling! There's nothing more exciting then hearing I impressed a reluctant reader :3 and the scariest thing I ever write is the stuff without major tragedy or drama. I hope the new parts are up to standard!
FILL: Doctor, Detective and Sons (1/?) (kidfic for real this time :D)tawabidsJune 2 2011, 09:57:48 UTC
Hahaha this is domestic fluff to the max. I am enjoying this way too much.
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It was seven am on a Monday morning, and John was lying on his back while wide awake and thinking about leaving his partner. It was the most awful, terrible, no-good thing he could even imagine thinking about. Alright, that was an exaggeration, the idea of anyone taking away or hurting his children ranked far above ‘Leaving Sherlock’ on the list of ‘Worst Things John Could Think About’, but he’d never allowed himself to think about things like that, had he? And yet here he was, skipping right up the thinking-list (past ‘Harry Having Another Breakdown’ and ‘Sherlock Getting Arrested’ and ‘Burglaries’) to ‘Leaving Sherlock’. And he wasn’t even trying to stop himself, or telling himself not to be stupid. He was really thinking about thisHe turned his head to look at Sherlock in the bed beside him. Sherlock slept completely silently, he always had. It was quite predatory. It made John think of owls gliding. But Sherlock still looked beautiful, icy-beautiful,
( ... )
FILL: Doctor, Detective and Sons (2/?)tawabidsJune 2 2011, 10:08:24 UTC
John padded upstairs, pursued by the hungry cry of, “DAAAAAD,” from his youngest. He knocked on the door to the upstairs bedroom - plastered with posters of dinosaurs (with scientifically correct names), next to pamphlets about various classical music concerts - and stuck his head inside. The dark-curtained room was lifeless and smelled of unwashed socks and sandwich crusts going mouldy under beds
( ... )
FILL: Doctor, Detective and Sons (3/?)tawabidsJune 2 2011, 10:13:42 UTC
“How come Geoff gets to stay in bed?” Murray whined, now sitting on the edge of his mattress and rubbing his eyes.
“Because Dad’s the doctor. Come on, hup,” John picked Murray up under the arms and set him on his feet. Murray was still light enough for such manhandling, which John liked. Geoffrey had all too fast grown too big to carry.
John did not tell Murray that Geoffrey got to stay in bed because if he said he was sick, he probably was. For no reason that Sherlock and John had ever been able to identify, Geoffrey had always been - to use a terribly Victorian term - a delicate child. He’d picked up every illness that went around the playground, colds, chicken pox, stomach bugs, the lot, and was allergic to penicillin and just about every animal with fur. He needed a lot of wrapping up in cold weather and sunscreen in hot. Murray almost never got sick: he had once caught chicken pox from his brother but recovered before Geoffrey was even out of bed. (He also had a tendency to eat too much sugar and then throw up at birthday
( ... )
FILL: Doctor, Detective and Sons (4/?)tawabidsJune 2 2011, 10:26:41 UTC
John quietly opened the door to his bedroom and shut it quickly behind him before the sound of Murray galumphing upstairs to fetch his scarf woke Sherlock up. His partner was still asleep on his stomach, and John carefully pulled the stroller out from under the bed without disturbing him. Sherlock had dumped his clothes on the floor when he’d come home the night before; John searched them as quickly as he could and pumped his fist in the air when he found a wrinkled cheque in the breast pocket of Sherlock’s jacket. Cocoa pops for everyone tomorrow. He found his wallet on the bedside table and tucked the cheque into it
( ... )
Re: FILL: Doctor, Detective and Sons (4/?)coppercricketJune 2 2011, 15:57:33 UTC
Wow!! I feel a little bad about how much this fic makes me think of my own family. :P
These conflicts are so difficult to cover, but you make it look effortless. I love how you captured the quiet desperation inherent in living paycheck to paycheck with three growing children. Small things like cereal become priceless. The way John shifts from feeling used and worthless to hopeful feels painfully realistic.
Re: FILL: Doctor, Detective and Sons (4/?) OP
anonymous
June 2 2011, 17:22:30 UTC
THIS IS AMAZING!!!! Arghhhh I want more!
I can see that this is going to be perfect already - the fact that John woke up thinking he was going to leave tells me that things are going to get worse. I love how you've developed their characters as parents and I look forward to having my heart broken (and then put back together again!)
Re: FILL: Doctor, Detective and Sons (4/?)
anonymous
June 2 2011, 19:42:09 UTC
"Yay! Sunny!" gave me a very sudden, vivid image of a two-year-old with their fists in the air sitting in a pusher all excited and OMG IT WAS ADORABLE.
I am sad that John is unhappy in his relationship. =( But I love the way you've shaped out the kids.
It's difficult bringing up children. Aside from it costing money and taking up all of your time, it also requires you to make difficult decisions when it comes to raising them right.
Sherlock and John find it hard to balance children with their everyday lives. At first, Sherlock gives up consulting, but John can see him slowly going mad and demands he go back to work. So then John stays at home, but he gets lonely and misses out on all the fun.
John hates that he's become the bad guy who enforces discipline, whilst Sherlock is the 'fun' one who never tells them off. They find themselves arguing over the right thing to do.
I just want to see some family-angst where Sherlock thinks that everything's fine but really John is not happy. Bonus!points if John brings it up and it completely destroys the view Sherlock had of his own family. How could he not have known that John was so unhappy?
As long as you make it all better by them sorting through things.
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But being a good parent is the hardest job anyone can have....and I'd love to see some fic that recognizes that.
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John and Sherlock were not in the latter category. The first time John got pregnant, it was rather a shock, in fact. They had barely prepared themselves before the squalling child was delivered (six pounds one ounce) by a confused junior doctor. He was brought into the world in a bloody caesarean mess behind a curtain in a shared ward, because by the time Sherlock convinced the doctors that yes, honestly, we’ve been doing tests for sometime now and there is a baby in there, it was too late to find arrange a private room ( ... )
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It was seven am on a Monday morning, and John was lying on his back while wide awake and thinking about leaving his partner. It was the most awful, terrible, no-good thing he could even imagine thinking about. Alright, that was an exaggeration, the idea of anyone taking away or hurting his children ranked far above ‘Leaving Sherlock’ on the list of ‘Worst Things John Could Think About’, but he’d never allowed himself to think about things like that, had he? And yet here he was, skipping right up the thinking-list (past ‘Harry Having Another Breakdown’ and ‘Sherlock Getting Arrested’ and ‘Burglaries’) to ‘Leaving Sherlock’. And he wasn’t even trying to stop himself, or telling himself not to be stupid. He was really thinking about thisHe turned his head to look at Sherlock in the bed beside him. Sherlock slept completely silently, he always had. It was quite predatory. It made John think of owls gliding. But Sherlock still looked beautiful, icy-beautiful, ( ... )
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“Because Dad’s the doctor. Come on, hup,” John picked Murray up under the arms and set him on his feet. Murray was still light enough for such manhandling, which John liked. Geoffrey had all too fast grown too big to carry.
John did not tell Murray that Geoffrey got to stay in bed because if he said he was sick, he probably was. For no reason that Sherlock and John had ever been able to identify, Geoffrey had always been - to use a terribly Victorian term - a delicate child. He’d picked up every illness that went around the playground, colds, chicken pox, stomach bugs, the lot, and was allergic to penicillin and just about every animal with fur. He needed a lot of wrapping up in cold weather and sunscreen in hot. Murray almost never got sick: he had once caught chicken pox from his brother but recovered before Geoffrey was even out of bed. (He also had a tendency to eat too much sugar and then throw up at birthday ( ... )
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These conflicts are so difficult to cover, but you make it look effortless. I love how you captured the quiet desperation inherent in living paycheck to paycheck with three growing children. Small things like cereal become priceless. The way John shifts from feeling used and worthless to hopeful feels painfully realistic.
tl;dr: More, please?
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I can see that this is going to be perfect already - the fact that John woke up thinking he was going to leave tells me that things are going to get worse. I love how you've developed their characters as parents and I look forward to having my heart broken (and then put back together again!)
I love this :D Thank you so much.
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I am sad that John is unhappy in his relationship. =( But I love the way you've shaped out the kids.
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