Best Sherlock (BBC) fics from 2013
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swissmargI've put together a list of my favorite Sherlock (BBC) fics that were posted or completed in 2013. All of these were taken from previous recs by me, so there's nothing new. Still, it's kind of nice to have it all in one place.
Listed in ascending order of length:
You Give Me Fever (16122 words) by michi_thekiller
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Thou givest fever when we kisseth, fever with thy flaming youth Fever I'm afire; fever, yea, I burn forsooth "He's the kind of boy you want to take apart." Gratuitous Greaserlock. It's essentially 16k of mostly-porn. Warnings for underage sex between teens.
Software Malfunction (16682 words) by tiger_in_the_flightdeck
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: "You think I can’t love you? Just because you’re made with metal, and detailed programming?” The doctor propped himself on his elbow, and looked down at it. “I am nothing but blood and bone, and tissue. Things just managed get mashed together in a manner that made me like this. Just like you were put together to make you how you are. When I kiss you-” he did so, briefly, to prove his point. Then more deeply, and lingering, because he could. “When I touch you, or smile at you, does it make you feel different from when others have done it in the past?” Assigned as the head of Medical Research on the Baker, John Watson meets- and quickly falls in love with- Sherlock, a specially commissioned Companion android with a malfunction.
Breathe (21146 words) by StoneWingedAngel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: could be seen as Sherlock/John pre-slash or just a really strong bromance
Summary: Sherlock knows he has to die. He knows that his job is going to be dangerous, long, exhausting; that he’s going to get damaged. And so, desperate and alone, he gives John his soul, little knowing the consequences will be enough to drive them both to breaking point.
A Shipless Ocean (22135 words) by myswordfishmind
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Ten years after the fall, Sherlock goes back to London to find that John no longer lives there. Instead he resides in a seaside town, a widower, and the father of a seven year old son. Now, Sherlock must struggle with the fact that there may no longer be a place for him in this new world.
Sussex (26641 words) by SilentAuror
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John can't seem to stop touching Sherlock. He can push the anger away, but sometimes he just needs to take Sherlock's pulse again. Slight angst, case-fic, post-Reichenbach.
Hitting the Water at Sixty Miles an Hour (30567 words) by what_alchemy
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: “You love your mother, Sherlock?” John watched the muscles in Sherlock’s jaw jump. He nodded in one sharp jerk. “Then we’re going to her party and making her happy.” John let out a resigned sigh. “As a ruddy couple, you bastard.”
The Cornish Cottage (32784 words) by flawedamythyst
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: In the wake of John's divorce, Sherlock tries to cheer him up with a trip to Cornwall. Adaptation of ACD's The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.
Unsettled (33881 words) by AxeMeAboutAxinomancy
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock's dæmon hadn't settled. Once John realised that, so much made sense. Though so much else didn't, because it practically wasn't possible.
LHR-HNL (35066 words) by scullyseviltwin
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: In need of an endangered flora sample, Sherlock and John must make a trip to an unexpected destination.
One Day at a Time Series (35137 words) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock Holmes never dreamed he would return to this; to a John that had lost so much. Determined to finally be the one that looks after John, Sherlock discovers that the road to recovery is a little different on the other side.
That Partitioning of the Things of Youth (35360 words) by wearitcounts
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Victor Trevor is in town, and nobody's happy.
Bird's Bone (39627 words) by thesardine
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Summary: "You want to know who's been terrorizing our dear Sherlock. Such nasty business. It wasn't me." He looked at Mycroft with wide, innocent eyes. "But if it wasn't old Jim, then who was it?" When Sherlock and John are recovered from abduction, Mycroft goes head to head against Moriarty to uncover the evasive truth about the incident. Locked in a flat in East London, they begin to play a little game... Sherlock and John, desperate to come to terms with what was done to them, begin to unravel the mystery from the other end, but in the struggle to regain some semblance of their lives, what they discover could be devastating.
Synthesis (40011 words) by LapOtter
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: syn·the·sis [sin-thuh-sis] /ˈsɪnθəsɪs/ noun, plural syn·the·ses. 1. the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity ( opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements. 2. a complex whole formed by combining. a·pha·sia [uh-fey-zhuh] /əˈfeɪʒə/ noun. 1. the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain.
You Promised Me Two Years (42322 words) by prettyvk
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John isn’t scared of Sherlock or of the adults around them. But he is scared of this Message. He is scared he’ll be there, in two years, right next to Sherlock, watching and unable to do a damn thing when he dies. Because the true Message was, “Don’t expect to make a career out of this interpreter thing. I’ll die in two years.” For the first time in his life, John wishes he’d never taken the Cassandra Tests.
Bloody But Unbowed (43212 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: "Ever since I returned to London, you have made it plain that my behaviour is intolerable. Clearly, you no longer find me praise-worthy in any capacity, so why are you still here?" When a familiar argument threatens to destroy the last remnants of John and Sherlock's failing friendship, both men are left questioning their worth to one another. Before either of them has the chance to make amends, circumstance intervenes. John is left at the mercy of his abductors, and this time, he's not sure Sherlock will bother coming to his rescue.
Left (45153 words) by lifeonmars
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John Watson is left-handed. He’s tried not to let it affect his life, but as any Lefty knows, that’s almost impossible.
Corpus Hominis (47734 words) by mycapeisplaid
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John knows the human body intimately. He’s had plenty of opportunity for study as a doctor, soldier, and lover. There’s one particular body, however, he knows very little about. When Sherlock launches himself head-first into a new obsession and they get sent on a case in an unlikely location, the pair discovers each other’s bodies with confusing yet delightful (and sometimes hilarious) results.
The Norwood Love Builders (47798 words) by flawedamythyst
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock and John go undercover to solve the murder of Joanna Oldacre, but things are complicated by the many feelings John has been repressing in the wake of Sherlock's faked death and return.
The Speed of Objects in Motion (48412 words) by holyfant
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock, John and a lifetime of falling together and apart.
Terms of Service (51502 words) by kres
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John finds out from the telly.
Triage (51612 words) by scullyseviltwin
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock’s mind goes exceedingly, devastatingly quiet and gray-blank. When he speaks it’s through a thick haze, it’s through molasses, he’s so disconnected from the words that it may as well be the unconscious shooter speaking. “It was only a twenty-two,” he says, voice unfeeling and unwavering, as though that makes any sense at all.
Letters Series (71463 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: General to Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No series summary available. 5-part post-Reichenbach hiatus and reunion series. Summary for part 2: While he's dead, Sherlock writes John letters. John reads them.
John Watson's Twelve Days of Christmas (53464 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: It's the holiday season. John Watson needs money. Sherlock Holmes needs something else.
All We Ought To Ask (56027 words) by achray
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: 1860. Change is in the air. John is a clergyman and former army chaplain, attempting to settle down in a country parish and lead a quiet life. But with Sherlock Holmes, reputed to be England's most dangerous religious controversialist, as the local aristocrat, what are his prospects of success?
Not the King's Men (56183 words) by StoneWingedAngel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John finds Sherlock three years after he thought he'd buried him, scared and injured; broken to such an extent he can barely recognise those trying to help him. Battling against too many unanswered questions and his own feelings, John sets out to put him back together, but never stops to consider Sherlock's return may be part of a greater punishment in store for the both of them.
Gravity (63645 words) by WendyBird
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: On the three year anniversary of Sherlock's death, John finds something unusual in his flat. He shouldn't be so thrilled to be finally going mad. But is he? Oh god, yes.
This Thing All Things Devours (63844 words) by cypress_tree
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: (In Time AU) In 2169, time is money—literally. Humans are genetically engineered to stop aging at 25, when the numbers on their arm start counting down from one year. When that time is up, they die. The only way to get more time is to earn it, borrow it, or steal it. John Watson lives day-to-day in the crowded slums of Zone 13. He never imagined living any differently—until he meets the practically-immortal Sherlock, and helps him on a case to track a local time-thief...
Resurrection (66695 words) by SilentAuror
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock/John, John/Mary
Summary: It's been three years. Can a man simply come back from the dead? Post-Reichenbach.
The Best of Times (72254 words) by Polyphony
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson/OMC
Summary: Struggling to cope with life after Reichenbach, John is gravely injured during a vicious, apparently motiveless street attack. Convalescing, on Mycroft’s invitation, at the Holmes family seat, John encounters someone entirely unexpected and uncovers an intriguing seventeen year-old mystery. Things hot up as John finds himself battling to work out the solution before James Moriarty’s legacy catches up with him – and also rekindling a love affair that was never really given the chance to blossom.Mystery, murder and mayhem together with love, romance and the return of the absent Sherlock in an enigma that will keep you on your toes until the very end.
The Beast of Baskerville (74567 words) by Mildredandbobbin
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Clara/Harry Watson, others
Summary: 15th Century/fairy tale AU. An invalided John Watson comes to the isolated village of Baskerville seeking shelter with his sister, only to find himself embroiled in a grisly murder. As the villagers point to a local werewolf legend, the odd but brilliant friar, Brother Sherlock, disagrees, and soon he and John are on the the trail of a very human murderer. As the killer takes another victim, fear and suspicion grips the village, culminating in the arrival of Inquisitor, Friar James Moriarty, who proves more terrible than any supernatural beast could ever be.
Naked, Stripped, and Raw Series (74904 words) by Nikoshinigami
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John Watson/Mary Morstan, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Time passes, John moves on in love and life, but no matter of distance or separation can ever truly make him say goodbye to Sherlock Holmes.
Over Hill and Under Hill (75299 words) by khorazir
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John and Sherlock travel to France to tackle the Col du Galibier (of Tour de France fame) by bicycle, and the confused state of their relationship after Sherlock's return from the dead at the same time. A long journey, and a long climb ...
Trying to Find The In-Between (Chapters) (75885 words) by NoStraightLine
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: DI Lestrade said that Sherlock Holmes was a great man, and one day, if they were very lucky, he'd be a good one. John Watson is many things, but lucky isn't one of them. This is the story of how the impossible happens.
Ours Series (76922 words) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No series summary available. 7-part omegaverse series. Summary for part 1: John is an omega who has been on heat suppressants his entire life. When Sherlock realises this and shows an interest in John, they have to work their way through the problems caused by John having never had a real heat in his life. Warnings for Mpreg, what could be considered dub-con, potential miscarriage. For brief drug use and for not exploring the repurcussions of it. For a mention of underage sex. And for the general things that come hand in hand with this kind of fic!
If You Can't Move Heaven, Raise Hell (83084 words) by splix
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Ian Adler, John Watson/Ian Adler, Sebastian Moran/Jim Moriarty
Summary: All John Watson wants is a peaceful fortnight's holiday in Cornwall. Fate has other plans.
The Madness Of Angels (87457 words) by ayalesca
(Note: This fic has been deleted. You can find an archived copy on AO3 or the Internet Archive)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Urban fantasy AU. In which John Watson is a war sorcerer recently invalided home from Afghanistan. In London he meets Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most irritating urban sorcerer and only consulting detective. There, John finds himself and Sherlock suddenly under attack by a mysterious and malevolent power—and drawn into a mystery that may tear London apart. A fusion with the Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin, but no prior knowledge is needed.
The Stars Move Still (96030 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: "What could I want so desperately that would make me sell my soul? What could possibly compel me to surrender the part of myself that makes me who I am: the source of my magic, my self-control, everything?"
Four Corners of the Western World Series (96474 words) by pennypaperbrain
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No summary available for series. Summary for part 2: Three months after his best friend and unrequited crush apparently committed suicide in front of him, John’s life has been turned upside down again by a voicemail from Sherlock in the US, saying he is covertly tracking down the remains of Moriarty’s network, and asking John to join him. Two days on, John is on his way to meet Sherlock in Malta. Everything seems to have changed between them: not only is Sherlock being overtly affectionate in his texts, but he quite explicitly wants sex. But there’s just one problem (apart from the small matter of the international assassins etc): Sherlock’s behaviour is getting steadily stranger, even by his standards. John starts to worry his friend may be on drugs again…
A Study in Doubles (98631 words) by Jupiter_Ash
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sequel to A Study in Winning. Because winning Wimbledon is one thing; maintaining a relationship is something else entirely.
Conductivity Series (120008 words, still WIP) by liriodendron
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: ' "Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt." ' - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (Note that, despite this quote, the series is BBC verse.)
Shatter the Darkness (Let the Light In) (109625 words) by MojoFlower
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Fairy tales are for those who remember how to dream; not John Watson, broken and hiding from his bleak future in a beige bedsit. But then he discovers a lamp and finds himself in the dangerous riptide of an enigmatic man whose very existence is unbelievable, murder charges against his sister, and the growing pains of feeling alive once more.
Safe Distance (114853 words) by merripestin
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: The mother was apparently poisoned, the son seems to have killed himself playing Russian roulette. It's a murder and a suicide. Or is it a suicide and a murder? At least the case is distracting John from the fact that sex with Sherlock was probably a mistake right from the start. John will learn to cope, one way or another.
The Bang and the Clatter (137048 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is a pitcher and John Watson is a catcher. No, no, no, it's a baseball AU.
Saving Sherlock Holmes (139494 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: Sherlock Holmes, schoolboy. Yeah, that basically sums it up.
The Same River Twice Series (151272 words) by PlaidAdder
Rating: Teen
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Harry Watson/Clara, Molly Hooper/Greg Lestrade
Summary: A pair of stories based on Sherlock, beginning a month after "The Reichenbach Fall." Both casefic, combining elements from more than one case. Both Johnlock, though other relationships may creep in. Plot and character-driven, though not entirely devoid of other pleasures.
Against the Rest of the World (151701 words) by SilentAuror
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock has been away from London for nine hundred and twelve days and counting, and has no idea what sort of reception to expect when he finally returns. Post-Reichenbach.
Midnight Blue Serenity (151908 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: “This was like nothing John had ever thought to associate with Sherlock: stubble, skin-tight jeans and three small silver rings gleaming at the crest of one ear. It was unbelievable, like stepping into an alternative universe, and John couldn't stop staring.” When Sherlock infiltrates a club in order to track down a serial killer, his altered appearance is enough to make John question his assumption that Sherlock is beyond his reach. However, is he the only one who appreciates his flatmate's charms, or is Sherlock at risk of becoming the next victim?
Getting Better Series (199424 words) by LittlePippin
Rating: Teen
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No series summary available. 5-part post-Reichenbach hurt/comfort series. Summary for part 3: John was shot. That had happened. That had happened right in front of Sherlock. Then John got so very ill, but he held on. Now he's back at home, trying to sort out his mixed up head and his weakened body. And he's trying to sort out Sherlock too. Eventual non-graphic slash. Not easy to say genre; some humour, some romance, some hurt.
The Faithful Compass Series (283709 words, still WIP) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Alternate Universe - University, Johnlock. John is five/six years younger than Sherlock and is studying at university when he meets a bored, addicted Sherlock. But Sherlock still needs to become sober, learn his skills and become the consulting detective while John needs to train, find his place in the world, and in the army, to become the man that can match Sherlock. The problem is they may not be able to become these people while in a relationship with each other.
Ava Watson Verse (320475 words, still WIP) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No series summary available. 6-part post-Reichenbach return kidfic series. Summary for part 1: Five year old Ava Watson's life is changed forever when her Daddy's old friend comes calling.
Listed in ascending order of length:
You Give Me Fever (16122 words) by michi_thekiller
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Thou givest fever when we kisseth, fever with thy flaming youth Fever I'm afire; fever, yea, I burn forsooth "He's the kind of boy you want to take apart." Gratuitous Greaserlock. It's essentially 16k of mostly-porn. Warnings for underage sex between teens.
Software Malfunction (16682 words) by tiger_in_the_flightdeck
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: "You think I can’t love you? Just because you’re made with metal, and detailed programming?” The doctor propped himself on his elbow, and looked down at it. “I am nothing but blood and bone, and tissue. Things just managed get mashed together in a manner that made me like this. Just like you were put together to make you how you are. When I kiss you-” he did so, briefly, to prove his point. Then more deeply, and lingering, because he could. “When I touch you, or smile at you, does it make you feel different from when others have done it in the past?” Assigned as the head of Medical Research on the Baker, John Watson meets- and quickly falls in love with- Sherlock, a specially commissioned Companion android with a malfunction.
Breathe (21146 words) by StoneWingedAngel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: could be seen as Sherlock/John pre-slash or just a really strong bromance
Summary: Sherlock knows he has to die. He knows that his job is going to be dangerous, long, exhausting; that he’s going to get damaged. And so, desperate and alone, he gives John his soul, little knowing the consequences will be enough to drive them both to breaking point.
A Shipless Ocean (22135 words) by myswordfishmind
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Ten years after the fall, Sherlock goes back to London to find that John no longer lives there. Instead he resides in a seaside town, a widower, and the father of a seven year old son. Now, Sherlock must struggle with the fact that there may no longer be a place for him in this new world.
Sussex (26641 words) by SilentAuror
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John can't seem to stop touching Sherlock. He can push the anger away, but sometimes he just needs to take Sherlock's pulse again. Slight angst, case-fic, post-Reichenbach.
Hitting the Water at Sixty Miles an Hour (30567 words) by what_alchemy
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: “You love your mother, Sherlock?” John watched the muscles in Sherlock’s jaw jump. He nodded in one sharp jerk. “Then we’re going to her party and making her happy.” John let out a resigned sigh. “As a ruddy couple, you bastard.”
The Cornish Cottage (32784 words) by flawedamythyst
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: In the wake of John's divorce, Sherlock tries to cheer him up with a trip to Cornwall. Adaptation of ACD's The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.
Unsettled (33881 words) by AxeMeAboutAxinomancy
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock's dæmon hadn't settled. Once John realised that, so much made sense. Though so much else didn't, because it practically wasn't possible.
LHR-HNL (35066 words) by scullyseviltwin
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: In need of an endangered flora sample, Sherlock and John must make a trip to an unexpected destination.
One Day at a Time Series (35137 words) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock Holmes never dreamed he would return to this; to a John that had lost so much. Determined to finally be the one that looks after John, Sherlock discovers that the road to recovery is a little different on the other side.
That Partitioning of the Things of Youth (35360 words) by wearitcounts
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Victor Trevor is in town, and nobody's happy.
Bird's Bone (39627 words) by thesardine
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Summary: "You want to know who's been terrorizing our dear Sherlock. Such nasty business. It wasn't me." He looked at Mycroft with wide, innocent eyes. "But if it wasn't old Jim, then who was it?" When Sherlock and John are recovered from abduction, Mycroft goes head to head against Moriarty to uncover the evasive truth about the incident. Locked in a flat in East London, they begin to play a little game... Sherlock and John, desperate to come to terms with what was done to them, begin to unravel the mystery from the other end, but in the struggle to regain some semblance of their lives, what they discover could be devastating.
Synthesis (40011 words) by LapOtter
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: syn·the·sis [sin-thuh-sis] /ˈsɪnθəsɪs/ noun, plural syn·the·ses. 1. the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity ( opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements. 2. a complex whole formed by combining. a·pha·sia [uh-fey-zhuh] /əˈfeɪʒə/ noun. 1. the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain.
You Promised Me Two Years (42322 words) by prettyvk
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John isn’t scared of Sherlock or of the adults around them. But he is scared of this Message. He is scared he’ll be there, in two years, right next to Sherlock, watching and unable to do a damn thing when he dies. Because the true Message was, “Don’t expect to make a career out of this interpreter thing. I’ll die in two years.” For the first time in his life, John wishes he’d never taken the Cassandra Tests.
Bloody But Unbowed (43212 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: "Ever since I returned to London, you have made it plain that my behaviour is intolerable. Clearly, you no longer find me praise-worthy in any capacity, so why are you still here?" When a familiar argument threatens to destroy the last remnants of John and Sherlock's failing friendship, both men are left questioning their worth to one another. Before either of them has the chance to make amends, circumstance intervenes. John is left at the mercy of his abductors, and this time, he's not sure Sherlock will bother coming to his rescue.
Left (45153 words) by lifeonmars
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John Watson is left-handed. He’s tried not to let it affect his life, but as any Lefty knows, that’s almost impossible.
Corpus Hominis (47734 words) by mycapeisplaid
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John knows the human body intimately. He’s had plenty of opportunity for study as a doctor, soldier, and lover. There’s one particular body, however, he knows very little about. When Sherlock launches himself head-first into a new obsession and they get sent on a case in an unlikely location, the pair discovers each other’s bodies with confusing yet delightful (and sometimes hilarious) results.
The Norwood Love Builders (47798 words) by flawedamythyst
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock and John go undercover to solve the murder of Joanna Oldacre, but things are complicated by the many feelings John has been repressing in the wake of Sherlock's faked death and return.
The Speed of Objects in Motion (48412 words) by holyfant
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock, John and a lifetime of falling together and apart.
Terms of Service (51502 words) by kres
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John finds out from the telly.
Triage (51612 words) by scullyseviltwin
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock’s mind goes exceedingly, devastatingly quiet and gray-blank. When he speaks it’s through a thick haze, it’s through molasses, he’s so disconnected from the words that it may as well be the unconscious shooter speaking. “It was only a twenty-two,” he says, voice unfeeling and unwavering, as though that makes any sense at all.
Letters Series (71463 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: General to Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No series summary available. 5-part post-Reichenbach hiatus and reunion series. Summary for part 2: While he's dead, Sherlock writes John letters. John reads them.
John Watson's Twelve Days of Christmas (53464 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: It's the holiday season. John Watson needs money. Sherlock Holmes needs something else.
All We Ought To Ask (56027 words) by achray
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: 1860. Change is in the air. John is a clergyman and former army chaplain, attempting to settle down in a country parish and lead a quiet life. But with Sherlock Holmes, reputed to be England's most dangerous religious controversialist, as the local aristocrat, what are his prospects of success?
Not the King's Men (56183 words) by StoneWingedAngel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John finds Sherlock three years after he thought he'd buried him, scared and injured; broken to such an extent he can barely recognise those trying to help him. Battling against too many unanswered questions and his own feelings, John sets out to put him back together, but never stops to consider Sherlock's return may be part of a greater punishment in store for the both of them.
Gravity (63645 words) by WendyBird
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: On the three year anniversary of Sherlock's death, John finds something unusual in his flat. He shouldn't be so thrilled to be finally going mad. But is he? Oh god, yes.
This Thing All Things Devours (63844 words) by cypress_tree
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: (In Time AU) In 2169, time is money—literally. Humans are genetically engineered to stop aging at 25, when the numbers on their arm start counting down from one year. When that time is up, they die. The only way to get more time is to earn it, borrow it, or steal it. John Watson lives day-to-day in the crowded slums of Zone 13. He never imagined living any differently—until he meets the practically-immortal Sherlock, and helps him on a case to track a local time-thief...
Resurrection (66695 words) by SilentAuror
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock/John, John/Mary
Summary: It's been three years. Can a man simply come back from the dead? Post-Reichenbach.
The Best of Times (72254 words) by Polyphony
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson/OMC
Summary: Struggling to cope with life after Reichenbach, John is gravely injured during a vicious, apparently motiveless street attack. Convalescing, on Mycroft’s invitation, at the Holmes family seat, John encounters someone entirely unexpected and uncovers an intriguing seventeen year-old mystery. Things hot up as John finds himself battling to work out the solution before James Moriarty’s legacy catches up with him – and also rekindling a love affair that was never really given the chance to blossom.Mystery, murder and mayhem together with love, romance and the return of the absent Sherlock in an enigma that will keep you on your toes until the very end.
The Beast of Baskerville (74567 words) by Mildredandbobbin
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Clara/Harry Watson, others
Summary: 15th Century/fairy tale AU. An invalided John Watson comes to the isolated village of Baskerville seeking shelter with his sister, only to find himself embroiled in a grisly murder. As the villagers point to a local werewolf legend, the odd but brilliant friar, Brother Sherlock, disagrees, and soon he and John are on the the trail of a very human murderer. As the killer takes another victim, fear and suspicion grips the village, culminating in the arrival of Inquisitor, Friar James Moriarty, who proves more terrible than any supernatural beast could ever be.
Naked, Stripped, and Raw Series (74904 words) by Nikoshinigami
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John Watson/Mary Morstan, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Time passes, John moves on in love and life, but no matter of distance or separation can ever truly make him say goodbye to Sherlock Holmes.
Over Hill and Under Hill (75299 words) by khorazir
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John and Sherlock travel to France to tackle the Col du Galibier (of Tour de France fame) by bicycle, and the confused state of their relationship after Sherlock's return from the dead at the same time. A long journey, and a long climb ...
Trying to Find The In-Between (Chapters) (75885 words) by NoStraightLine
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: DI Lestrade said that Sherlock Holmes was a great man, and one day, if they were very lucky, he'd be a good one. John Watson is many things, but lucky isn't one of them. This is the story of how the impossible happens.
Ours Series (76922 words) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No series summary available. 7-part omegaverse series. Summary for part 1: John is an omega who has been on heat suppressants his entire life. When Sherlock realises this and shows an interest in John, they have to work their way through the problems caused by John having never had a real heat in his life. Warnings for Mpreg, what could be considered dub-con, potential miscarriage. For brief drug use and for not exploring the repurcussions of it. For a mention of underage sex. And for the general things that come hand in hand with this kind of fic!
If You Can't Move Heaven, Raise Hell (83084 words) by splix
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Ian Adler, John Watson/Ian Adler, Sebastian Moran/Jim Moriarty
Summary: All John Watson wants is a peaceful fortnight's holiday in Cornwall. Fate has other plans.
The Madness Of Angels (87457 words) by ayalesca
(Note: This fic has been deleted. You can find an archived copy on AO3 or the Internet Archive)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Urban fantasy AU. In which John Watson is a war sorcerer recently invalided home from Afghanistan. In London he meets Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most irritating urban sorcerer and only consulting detective. There, John finds himself and Sherlock suddenly under attack by a mysterious and malevolent power—and drawn into a mystery that may tear London apart. A fusion with the Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin, but no prior knowledge is needed.
The Stars Move Still (96030 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: "What could I want so desperately that would make me sell my soul? What could possibly compel me to surrender the part of myself that makes me who I am: the source of my magic, my self-control, everything?"
Four Corners of the Western World Series (96474 words) by pennypaperbrain
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No summary available for series. Summary for part 2: Three months after his best friend and unrequited crush apparently committed suicide in front of him, John’s life has been turned upside down again by a voicemail from Sherlock in the US, saying he is covertly tracking down the remains of Moriarty’s network, and asking John to join him. Two days on, John is on his way to meet Sherlock in Malta. Everything seems to have changed between them: not only is Sherlock being overtly affectionate in his texts, but he quite explicitly wants sex. But there’s just one problem (apart from the small matter of the international assassins etc): Sherlock’s behaviour is getting steadily stranger, even by his standards. John starts to worry his friend may be on drugs again…
A Study in Doubles (98631 words) by Jupiter_Ash
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sequel to A Study in Winning. Because winning Wimbledon is one thing; maintaining a relationship is something else entirely.
Conductivity Series (120008 words, still WIP) by liriodendron
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: ' "Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt." ' - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (Note that, despite this quote, the series is BBC verse.)
Shatter the Darkness (Let the Light In) (109625 words) by MojoFlower
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Fairy tales are for those who remember how to dream; not John Watson, broken and hiding from his bleak future in a beige bedsit. But then he discovers a lamp and finds himself in the dangerous riptide of an enigmatic man whose very existence is unbelievable, murder charges against his sister, and the growing pains of feeling alive once more.
Safe Distance (114853 words) by merripestin
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: The mother was apparently poisoned, the son seems to have killed himself playing Russian roulette. It's a murder and a suicide. Or is it a suicide and a murder? At least the case is distracting John from the fact that sex with Sherlock was probably a mistake right from the start. John will learn to cope, one way or another.
The Bang and the Clatter (137048 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is a pitcher and John Watson is a catcher. No, no, no, it's a baseball AU.
Saving Sherlock Holmes (139494 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: Sherlock Holmes, schoolboy. Yeah, that basically sums it up.
The Same River Twice Series (151272 words) by PlaidAdder
Rating: Teen
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Harry Watson/Clara, Molly Hooper/Greg Lestrade
Summary: A pair of stories based on Sherlock, beginning a month after "The Reichenbach Fall." Both casefic, combining elements from more than one case. Both Johnlock, though other relationships may creep in. Plot and character-driven, though not entirely devoid of other pleasures.
Against the Rest of the World (151701 words) by SilentAuror
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock has been away from London for nine hundred and twelve days and counting, and has no idea what sort of reception to expect when he finally returns. Post-Reichenbach.
Midnight Blue Serenity (151908 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: “This was like nothing John had ever thought to associate with Sherlock: stubble, skin-tight jeans and three small silver rings gleaming at the crest of one ear. It was unbelievable, like stepping into an alternative universe, and John couldn't stop staring.” When Sherlock infiltrates a club in order to track down a serial killer, his altered appearance is enough to make John question his assumption that Sherlock is beyond his reach. However, is he the only one who appreciates his flatmate's charms, or is Sherlock at risk of becoming the next victim?
Getting Better Series (199424 words) by LittlePippin
Rating: Teen
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No series summary available. 5-part post-Reichenbach hurt/comfort series. Summary for part 3: John was shot. That had happened. That had happened right in front of Sherlock. Then John got so very ill, but he held on. Now he's back at home, trying to sort out his mixed up head and his weakened body. And he's trying to sort out Sherlock too. Eventual non-graphic slash. Not easy to say genre; some humour, some romance, some hurt.
The Faithful Compass Series (283709 words, still WIP) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Alternate Universe - University, Johnlock. John is five/six years younger than Sherlock and is studying at university when he meets a bored, addicted Sherlock. But Sherlock still needs to become sober, learn his skills and become the consulting detective while John needs to train, find his place in the world, and in the army, to become the man that can match Sherlock. The problem is they may not be able to become these people while in a relationship with each other.
Ava Watson Verse (320475 words, still WIP) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: No series summary available. 6-part post-Reichenbach return kidfic series. Summary for part 1: Five year old Ava Watson's life is changed forever when her Daddy's old friend comes calling.
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Date: 2014-01-11 12:14 pm (UTC)I think i've read 80% and the rest is on my TBR collection so I'll get to it soon (well not all as there are certain things I don't read, but, like... maybe 3 of the list) and I agree they're brilliant fics, i've rated them no less than 4/5 with many 5/5 *_* what a great year :D
Actually I'm putting those I haven't read on the "TBR FIRST" list so they're on top of the pile XD I always trust your recommendations.
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Date: 2014-01-11 02:20 pm (UTC)most are parts of series that were started in 2012 or that are unfinished yet, so they probably don't count, but I'll put a couple here, (also for instance parts of "this is where i began" or "cinnamon" or the sequels to Multiply)
they can be read as stand alone too, and then there are a few more that I liked.
Ink and Honour (http://archiveofourown.org/works/845888) (6342 words) by moonblossom (http://archiveofourown.org/users/moonblossom)
Remedy (http://archiveofourown.org/works/831650) (41112 words) by Nikoshinigami (http://archiveofourown.org/users/Nikoshinigami)
There's Something Living in These Lines (http://archiveofourown.org/works/715672) (4676 words) by teahigh (http://archiveofourown.org/users/teahigh)
Concertos and Blackmail (http://archiveofourown.org/works/662440) (42720 words) by hoc_voluerunt (http://archiveofourown.org/users/hoc_voluerunt)
In One Month (http://archiveofourown.org/works/661834) (34630 words) by roane (http://archiveofourown.org/users/roane)
Nothing to Make a Song About (http://archiveofourown.org/works/641558) (36833 words) by emmagrant01 (http://archiveofourown.org/users/emmagrant01)
I noticed lately that fics I would have given 5/5 had they been written for other fandoms or had I not read others i'm not giving 5/5 anymore even if I should, this fandom is so talented that i had to limit my 5* tag to really the AMAZING ones or there would be too many XD Sometimes I go back to those i've read but that are not 5* and ask myself why on earth I didn't give this 5 at that time XD
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Date: 2014-01-11 02:42 pm (UTC)Yes, I've read all of those other ones you listed too and even recced some of them in my regular weekly recs. They just didn't make the top 50 for me, although they are also great. Concertos and Blackmail was actually posted in 2012 on LJ. It just didn't make it to AO3 until January 2013. Remedy is kind of unfinished ... I mean, the fic itself is complete, but it's part one of a series and I really need part 2! I loved roane's and emmagrant01's fics too! So, yeah, there's definitely a lot of talent in this fandom. Looking forward to seeing what series 3 brings on!
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Date: 2014-01-11 02:51 pm (UTC)remedy, i'm waiting, not sure I can bear angst and pain rn, I need to know there's a happy ending :D
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is it sunday yet? *shifts time*
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