Recs of long (100K+) Johnlock fics
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swissmargSomeone requested Johnlock stories over 100K words in the Thursday recs post on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sherlockbbc, so I put this list together. Then I thought it might useful for others too, as it contains some of my very favorite Johnlock fics. Listed in descending order of length.
All are complete except where noted.
I will add to this list as I read more, so check back from time to time for new additions.
*Updated 20 November 2017*
Series:
Sketchy (523,274 words) by serpentynka
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/OMC
Summary: What (and who) will be left when nobody cares about your Work? A slow-burn fic with cases, places, mistaken identities, unfair choices, essential changes, violent feels, blatant lies, fearless portraiture, family secrets, high-risk bespoke gifts, durable friendships, bedtime stories, foreign travel and tongues, sickness (and health), and the significance of things which are slow to unfurl -- but cannot be ignored. Oh, and...porn.
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On Pins and Needles (393,277 words) by J_Baillier
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: None given for the series. Sherlock contracts Guillain-Barré syndrome.
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The Watsons of Saughton (362,646 words) by dkwilliams, Diana Williams
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Sebastian Moran/James Moriarty
Summary: John Watson, the new Earl of Saughton, is madly in love with the beautiful Mary Morstan. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of ruin and his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He has little choice when he is introduced to Mycroft Holmes, a civil servant of apparently unlimited wealth and no social ambitions for himself - but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only brother, the unorthodox and irascible Omega Sherlock Holmes. Can John forget the woman he loved and find happiness with a man so very different from his lost love?
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Wild About Harry Series (349,520 words) by PlaidAdder
Rating: Teen
Relationships: John/Sherlock, Harry/Clara, Molly/Lestrade
Summary: All the stories featuring Harry Watson in one place, in the order in which I wrote them. (Harry features prominently, but the main characters are really John and Sherlock. Casefics with strong relationship components.)
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Ava Watson Verse (347,720 words) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but it is a kid!fic where John has a 5-year-old daughter. Lots of angst, post-Reichenbach.
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Over/Under Series (319,562 words) by Khorazir
Rating: Teen to Mature
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but it is a post-Reichenbach, very slow burn friends-to-lovers AU with each installment involving a different kind of travel.
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The Faithful Compass Series (300,444 words) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: John/Sherlock
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.
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I'm A Flame And You're My Fire Series (297,749 words) by Morwen_Maranwe
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: After being shot and invalided from the Army, John is living a despondent life with a wife who has no respect and no love for him any longer, yet he is desperate to make their marriage work. In a last ditch effort to save their marriage, he moves them out of London and to some small, nameless town where his good friend, Mike Stamford, has been able to get him a job as a teacher at a secondary school. There he meets a teenage boy who he has an undeniable connection to, and who has the ability to make his life seem less meaningless. Though he knows that it’s wrong, John just can’t stop the relationship he is developing with Sherlock from growing. It slowly begins to spiral out of control, consuming his entire life like a wild fire and changing him in ways he didn’t think were possible anymore.
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Scotland (279,413 words) by snorklepie
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Original Character
Summary:“What are we, now?” John mused aloud, once they were in a cab heading back to Baker street. It was a cool, damp afternoon and Sherlock was studying the passers-by with detached interest. He glanced over at John with a raised eyebrow, his fingers idly worrying at one of the buttons on his coat.
“Nothing seems quite right. What would you call me, if somebody asked?” John waved a hand vaguely at the space between them. “What do we call… this?” Sherlock stared at him for quite a while, his brow furrowed. John began to feel a little self conscious. The taxi lurched as they turned a sharp corner, and he flung out his arm to steady himself. Sherlock caught his wrist, and held tight.
“Everything.” Sherlock said quietly, and after a moment he let go and resumed his study of the streets outside. John barely even heard the words, he said them so softly. “Everything. That’s what you are.” John stared at Sherlock’s profile against the cab window and exhaled slowly. After a long moment, he reached out and touched Sherlock’s long fingers where they were fiddling with the button on his coat. The tall man didn’t look around again, but his fingers slowly unfurled before curling deliberately around John’s hand.
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Performance in a Leading Role Series (223,707 words) by Mad_Lori
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is an Oscar winner in the midst of a career slump. John Watson is an Everyman actor trapped in the rom-com ghetto. When they are cast as a gay couple in a new independent drama, will they surprise each other? Will their on-screen romance make its way into the real world?
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Tennis Series (215,916 words) by jupiter_ash
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but this is a tennis AU where both John and Sherlock are professional tennis players.
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Keep the Car Running Series (212,932) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Summary: If Mycroft Holmes lived in a world where people could steal information from the subconsciouses of others, tell me he wouldn't be all over that when he had Moriarty in custody.
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The Getting Better Series (199,424 words) by LittlePippin
Rating: T
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but it's a post-Reichenbach return series with lots of hurt/comfort, sickness and injury.
(Note: This series has been deleted. The link above leads to a rec with links to cached versions of the stories.)
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Just Like That (196,843 words) by cwb
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but it's a Midwestern U.S. teenlock AU.
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In My Master's House Verse (185,357 words) by brighteyed_jill
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock, Mycroft/Lestrade
Summary: None given for the series, but it's a slavery AU where John and Lestrade are Sherlock's and Mycroft's personal house slaves, respectively. There are 9 parts posted, and the author says there will be at least one more.
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Tristram Holmes AU (182,055 words) byswissmarg (yes, that's me)
Rating: T to M
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: Spinoff of the Getting Better series by nox_candida. Characters used with permission.
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Be Here Now Universe (181,811 words) by todesfuge
Rating: M
Relationships: John/Sherlock, John/OFC
Summary: John Watson was already fighting demons when he and Sherlock met. With Sherlock's suicide, it all comes flooding back, forcing Sherlock to intervene before he's solved the persistent riddles of Jim Moriarty and his game. Together they find that something darker lurks behind Moriarty, forcing Sherlock, John, and Irene Adler into an even deadlier game with a much more dangerous foe. Begins six months after the events of The Reichenbach Fall.
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The Circle of Fifths Series (162,734 words) by Nikoshinigami
Rating: T/M
Relationships: John/Sherlock, John/Mary
Summary: Stories dealing with the resolution of season two's "The Reichenbach Fall".
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A Magic Moment (159,828 words) by alexxphoenix42
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/OC, John Watson/OC, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: Although John and Sherlock were both upper-level students at Hogwarts, they had never had a reason to actually speak before that night in detention together. Sherlock discovers there's just something about John that he can't pin down. Obviously John is something that requires a little more study.
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The Same River Twice (151,303 words) by PlaidAdder
Rating: Teen
Relationships: John/Sherlock, Harry/Clara, Lestrade/Molly
Summary: A pair of stories based on Sherlock, beginning a month after "The Reichenbach Fall." All casefic, combining elements from more than one case. All Johnlock, though other relationships may creep in. Plot and character-driven, though not entirely devoid of other pleasures.
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Cinnamon Series (150,130 words) by lbmisscharlie
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: When Sherlock invites John to live with him, he fails to mention that he's a single father to a four-year-old girl.
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Ode to Broken Things (149,008 words) by ArabellaStrange
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: 'With Mary, he’d done everything in the right order — if at breakneck speed: flirting, sex, seriousness, rude and awkward realism, proper caring. He and Sherlock, though, had spent so many years loving each other quietly, imagining fantasy versions of each other, in amongst the everyday of bad tempers and absent-minded scratching, that never were interrupted by mismatched desires or poor communication. Was it possible (he thought, in a slightly out-of-body way, scrawling out a prescription) they had missed the opportunity to be in love with each other?'
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Conductivity Series (146,737 words) by liriodendron
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
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"
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The Pure and Simple Truth Series (137,738 words) by 221b_hound
Rating: Mature
Relationships: John Watson/Mary Morstan, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson/Mary Morstan, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: A Pure and Simple Truth reworks the last 7 episodes of BBC Sherlock, from The Empty Hearse to the Final Problem. Some elements will be the same, some reused, some discarded. This series will work towards eventual Johnlock.
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The Ichor of Talos (127,201 words) by Nikoshinigami
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: After being convicted of the murder of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson is sentenced to confinement, therapy, and to the constant companionship of a hologram of his victim to aid in his rehabilitation. While John remains uncertain of his guilt, Sherlock is only too happy to engage in the mystery of his own murder to try and discover why he died and how events set his path to cross with the war ravaged stranger he's now posthumously bound to.
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The Infiltrate Series (117,422 words) by SkipandDi (ladyflowdi)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: This is a moment Sherlock will look back to time and again as the future stalks forward; an instance he will use to justify his actions, the decisions he will make. He'd known Moriarty was working solely for his attention, even John had recognized as much during the first assault. But Sherlock has been a fool, a dangerous, incompetent fool, because this is so far beyond all that. It always has been.
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The Holiday Cycle (115,452 words) by flawedamythyst
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherrinford Holmes/Molly Hooper
Summary: John and Sherlock made a deal so that Sherlock could come home. Now it's time for them to uphold it.
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The Baker Street Nativity Verse (109,642 words) by SwissMiss (again, me)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: Fusion between Sherlock (BBC) and Nativity! (2009 movie starring Martin Freeman). Sherlock is a primary school teacher and John is assigned to be his classroom assistant. Together, they are charged with putting on the school's Nativity play. What could possibly go wrong? Includes main story, DVD extras, and 24-part Advent calendar drabbles.
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Happiness Can Be Found (106,609 words) by HollyShadow88
Rating: Teen to Explicit
Relationships: John/Mary, John/Sherlock
Summary of Part 1: Potterlock, written and completed during NaNoWriMo 2014. When Minerva McGonagall makes a surprise visit to Baker Street, a part of John's past that he hoped he put behind him comes crashing back to the forefront. With a baby and an overly curious Sherlock Holmes in tow, John is forced back into the world he put behind him to bring a stop to the mysteriously familiar deaths haunting London.
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Four Corners of the Western World (100,486 words) by pennypaperbrain
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: Undercover after Reichenbach, tracking the snipers who threatened his friends, Sherlock has one thing left he can depend on: his mind. But when he faces making his first kill, alone among the mad excesses of Las Vegas, the pressure turns out to be greater than even he can endure without John beside him.
Stand-Alones:
Deflowered - Director's Cut (327,907 words) by Lorelei_Lee
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: It should have been strictly business. Being a Mafia boss with a sadistic sexual streak, John had long since realised that his playthings were in it for the money only. Being a masochistic rent boy, Sherlock seemed too good to be true. Little did they know…
Note: This is a translation by me (swissmarg) of this fic:
Unberührt - Deflowered - extended version (324,448 words) by Lorelei_Lee
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: Mafia!AU – Alternatives Universum. Nach dem Tod seiner Mutter wächst Sherlock bei seinem Vater, dessen Frau und deren Sohn Mycroft – seinem Halbbruder – auf. Jahre später ersteigert der Londoner Mafia-Boss John „Doc“ Watson Sherlocks Jungfräulichkeit in Irene Adlers Bordell. Was für John als amüsante Abwechslung begonnen hat, entwickelt eine eigene Dynamik und bald kann John nicht mehr von Sherlock lassen. Als die Bürgermeisterwahlen anstehen, wird alles nur noch komplizierter, denn ein gewisser Mycroft Holmes ist einer der Kandidaten - doch er ist nicht der Wunschkandidat der Mafia...
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The Gilded Cage (327,000 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/Original Male Character(s), Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: In a world where Omegas are the property of the elite Alphas, locked away and treasured by those wealthy enough to buy them, John never questioned his flatmate's secondary gender. Sherlock Holmes was an Alpha through-and through. Wasn't he? A chance discovery turns the world on its head, and John is left grappling to come to terms with Sherlock's past as events conspire to threaten their future.
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The Omega Sutra (275,366 words) by Ghislainem70
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes/Original Male Character
Summary: In an Omegaverse/Angels & Demons AU, Sherlock Holmes has a secret life. John Watson shouldn't want to be part of it. But they'll go through heaven and hell to keep each other. Johnlock and Mystrade caught up in the eternal battle of angels and demons for supremacy.
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School For Scandal (222,196 words) by rubberbird
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock lusts from afar. John tries hard to fool himself.
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The Case of the Green Gown (209,247 words) by splix
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: ...Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association. I was alone. ---Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
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At Night In The Floating World (207,101 words) by PoppyAlexander
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty, Molly Hooper/Greg Lestrade
Summary: "Xie [...] had invented an entire pleasure-industry by combining superior visual aesthetics with impeccable personal attention. Drasha salons were by that time a feature of any even half-decent house of repose in every pleasure district in the British Isles, but once upon a time, when Xie debuted, there had been only one, and Xie had named it: the Icehouse." Deep-cover Unity operative, the Face, finds himself drawn into the orbit of the otherworldly Xie, a world-famous "drasha" (drag+geisha) artist in a London house of repose. As a resistance plot unfolds, the secrets each of them keeps will draw them together even as they threaten to drive them apart. Modern-day dystopian/one-world government/espionage/geisha!lock AU
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A River Without Banks (203,286 words) by Chryse
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: "You love this, being Sherlock Holmes." He had once. When had it all gone so wrong?
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Nature and Nurture (203,273 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: The British Government accidentally clones Sherlock Holmes. Which brings a baby to 221B Baker Street.
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Names for the Galaxy (191,102 words) by evadne
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sci-fi AU. Sherlock Holmes is a recent arrival to 22nd century earth, and determined to find out who he is and where he comes from. John Watson has the unenviable task of teaching him how to be a normal human being.
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All the Best and Brightest Creatures (188,426 words) by wordstrings
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock sent Jim Moriarty to prison for killing Carl Powers at age ten. This is the story of the consequences.
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Mise en Place (161,004 words) by azriona
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John Watson had no intentions of taking over the family business, but when he returns from Afghanistan, battered and bruised, and discovers that his sister Harry has run their restaurant into the ground, he doesn't have much choice. There's only one thing that can save the Empire from closing for good – the celebrity star of the BBC series Restaurant Reconstructed, Chef Sherlock Holmes.
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Gimme Shelter (159369 words) by SinceWhenDoYouCallMe_John
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: All John Watson wants is the feeling of a freshly waxed surfboard under his feet and the hot California sun baking down onto his back. To finally go pro in the newly formed world of professional surfing and leave the dark memories of his past behind him as he rips across the face of a towering blue barrel. To lounge beside the beach bonfire every evening with an ice cold beer tucked into the cool sand beside him and listen to Pink Floyd and the Doors while the saltwater dries in his sun bleached hair. That's all he wants, that is, until the hot young phenom taking Oahu and the Hawaiian shores by storm steps up next to him in the sand in the second round of the 1976 International Surf Competition.
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Castle and Sand (158,541 words) by grey853
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock and John both have difficult pasts that affect their evolving relationship. When John prevents a mugging, it sets off a dangerous chain of events that not only impacts him, but his whole family. In the end there's a wedding and a honeymoon, but will there really be a happy ending?
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The Quiet Man (157,369 words) by ivyblossom
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: "Do you just carry on talking when I'm away?"
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The Fabric of Life (156,378 words) by holyfant
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: The fabric of life rearranges itself around the re-emergence of Sherlock.
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Emperor Tales of the Frozen South (153,593 words) by cwb
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: At the bottom of the world, two intrepid explorers make their way in the harshest of environments. An important journey must be taken, and prophecies fulfilled, but not before family meddling, political interference, and self-doubt threaten to alter the future of an entire species. If you know me at all, you know that this had to be done.
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A Fold in the Universe (152,811 words) by darkest_bird
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Greg Lestrade/Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes/Anthea
Summary: Alpha Sherlock and Omega John are in a relationship. Prime Sherlock and Prime John are not. So what happens when a freak fold in the universe switches one John for the other?
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Midnight Blue Serenity (151,908 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?
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Against the Rest of the World (151,701 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.
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Boyfriend Material (151282 words) by PoppyAlexander
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Boston Brawlers' team captain John Watson longs for two things: a championship before he retires, and a boyfriend. Assigned to room with goaltender Sherlock Holmes--known around the league as both a genius and a "weird dude"--on Brawlers' roadtrips, John discovers the things they have in common that lead to an easy friendship and a convenient arrangement.
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Raison d'être (148,681 words) by AmphigoricSymphony
Rating: Mature
Relationships: John/Mary, John/Sherlock
Summary: The missing months of His Last Vow, starting from Sherlock dropping in John's arms at 221B and carrying through the months of Hospital he endured. This is a study in emotional and physical trauma, striving to stick as close to the cannon plot as possible. At Christmas Dinner, Mycroft asks why they are even celebrating. His mother's answer, 'Sherlock is home from hospital,' leads us to believe Sherlock was in hospital the majority of the time frame of his fall from shock at Baker Street, to nearly Christmas itself. We have no explanation for what John was doing all that time, so this is an effort to fill the gap. Enjoy!
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The Frost Is All Over (148,518 words) by Chryse
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson/OMC
Summary: John was brave and clever and loyal, a commoner who longed for an exciting life. Sherlock was dashing and brilliant and passionate, an Earl’s son who longed to solve crimes. Being a Tale of Glorious Adventures, Love Letters, Treachery, Longing, Secret Identities, Deathbed Confessions, First Kisses, Daring Escapes, and True Love.
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Colors (140,836 words) by Quesarasara
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Victor Trevor, John Watson/Original Female Character(s), Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Sarah Sawyer/John Watson, Molly Hooper/Original Male Character
Summary: Everyone on earth is born with eyes that see in black, white, and an endless series of greys. When you meet your soulmate, you finally see the world in color. We're all searching for the person who brings color to our lives. John and Sherlock are no exception.
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Saving Sherlock Holmes (139,494 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: Sherlock Holmes, schoolboy. Yeah, that basically sums it up.
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The Last Place You'd Look (138,241 words) by theorclair
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (pre-slash)
Summary: An abuse case turns into an investigation where Sherlock, John, and all of Scotland Yard will learn stunning things about Sherlock's past and will change the relationship between him and John forever.
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The Bang and the Clatter (137,048 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.
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Method Act (136,749 words) by splix
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Various combinations of Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Gatiss, and Louise Brealey (RPF crossover)
Summary: Something very strange keeps happening at 7:35 PM.
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Mary (136,145 words) by kinklock
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Monte Carlo, 1937. While working as the companion to Sebastian Wilkes, a young man becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, John Watson. Rumour has it that Watson, owner of the grand country estate Manderley, is still haunted by the sudden death of his late wife. But as the young man soon learns, not all is as it seems.
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Out There (131,695 words) by DiscordantWords
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: FBI Special Agent John Watson, medical doctor and army veteran, is assigned to assist eccentric genius Sherlock Holmes with paranormal investigations on the X Files project. This is a fusion with The X Files, written for the Fall TV Season Challenge.
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The Horse and His Doctor (128,999 words) by khorazir
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Invalided after a run in with a poacher in Siberia, veterinary surgeon John Watson finds it difficult to acclimatise to the mundanity of London life. Things change when a friend invites him along to a local animal shelter and he meets their latest acquisition, a trouble-making Frisian with the strangest eyes and even stranger quirks John has ever encountered in a horse.
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To Light Another's Path (128,655 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Teaching John to observe seems to be a losing battle, but when Sherlock falls ill and submits himself to John's care, will he realise that there is more to life than the science of deduction? Meanwhile, there is a murder to solve, and John must try and convince Sherlock not to sacrifice his own health for the sake of the case. Eventual John/Sherlock Hurt/Comfort case fic. Post the Great Game
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Bel Canto (127,481 words) by bendingsignpost
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Irene Adler/Kate, Sherlock Holmes/Irene Adler
Summary: After years of waiting for wealthy patrons to faint, Dr John Watson discovers a far more interesting patient in the opera house basement. (AU through a Phantom of the Opera lens.)
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One Night In December (126,187 words) by Holly Sykes
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: London, 29th December 1940, 8 pm. The London Blitz reached its nadir with the bombing of the City of London and the area around its most beloved landmark, St. Paul’s Cathedral. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes meet as the flames blaze and roar all around them.
But who is that dark-haired young man and why is he risking his life in such a careless manner? This is what Doctor Watson is wondering, as he eventually becomes enmeshed in a mystery that will take him away from his dreary, hopeless life and plunge him into the secret life of wartime London.
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Full Court Press (126,123 words) by MissDavis
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Anderson/Sally Donovan
Summary: Sherlock Holmes has accepted a scholarship to play basketball at the College of St. Bartholomew's. He expects to be their star player and turn the team's losing record around. He does not expect to fall in love with the team's captain, a certain scrappy point guard named John Watson. Or: Sherlock is the team's best shooter. John is the team's best ball-handler.
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Against All Odds (125,971 words) by ravenscar
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: When a Crusader crosses paths with an enigmatic young Briton in the Holy Land, their lives are changed forever.
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A Further Sea (125,518 words) by i_ship_an_armada, ShinySherlock
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Molly Hooper/Janine
Summary: Here be a tale of adventure for both body and soul, but beware if ye be not of stout heart, for this be piratelock, ya savvy? Luckless ship's surgeon John Watson takes a chance, and finds himself eye to eye with The Ghost, the scourge of the seven seas and a definite thorn in the side of the blaggard, James Moriarty. But when John finds there's more to this most cunning pirate than be meetin' the eye, he has to choose--is it a pirate's life for him?
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Thirst (122,257 words) by bittergreens
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: When John realizes he has feelings for Sherlock and decides he must keep those feelings secret at all costs, the resulting tension might bring Baker Street to the ground.
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Breakable (117,628 words) by MissDavis
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: After John is seriously injured, Sherlock struggles to figure out how to help him, keep himself sane, and maybe, just maybe, get their life back to the way it's supposed to be.
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The Taming of John Watson (115,862 words) by taylorpotato
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Past Sherlock Holmes/OMC, implied Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Implied Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Sebastian Moran/Jim Moriarty
Summary: In the aftermath of the Great Game, Sherlock decides it's time to break in the lovely John Watson. Gratuitous smut, whips, chains, and slashy goodness will ensue (now complete except for epilogue).
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Safe Distance (114,805 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.
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Two Two One Bravo Baker (114,574 words) by abundantlyqueer
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Captain John Watson of 40 Commando, the Royal Marines, is assigned to protect and assist Sherlock Holmes as he investigates what appears to be a simple war atrocity in Afghanistan. An intense attraction ignites between the two men as they uncover a conspiracy that threatens everything they’ve ever known, but Sherlock is as much hunted as hunter, and everyone close to him is in deadly danger. Can he solve the case in time to save himself and John?
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The Illustrious Client (113274 words) by ArabellaStrange
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: ‘We’re a couple!' John burst out, bluntly. His face was nearly twitching with rage. He hadn’t even meant to say anything, to anybody, because he wanted what they had for himself just a bit longer, for a million reasons half-romantic and half-defensive, and yet here he was, gripping Chez Francine’s thick cream tablecloth with enough force to tear it in half, suddenly wanting nothing more than to tell everyone within earshot that Sherlock was absolutely infuriating, surprisingly good at blowjobs, and probably in love with him.
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All Things Will Die, Nothing Will Die (109,662 words) by Holly Sykes (Artemis8147)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Time: January, 1831. Something suspicious is happening at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital: corpses are brought in and sold to the surgeons, but Sherlock Holmes suspects foul play.
He’s not alone: at Guy’s Hospital, Doctor John Watson refuses to pay twelve guineas for a body that he fears has been tampered with. The lives of the two men collide one frosty winter night and from that moment on, they will never be torn asunder. A macabre AU story of grisly murders, passion, sex and mystery, with an unambiguous happy ending; inspired by the London Burkers crimes, by several short stories written around that period and by the book The Vampyre Family by Andrew McConnell Stott. Also, a very big help was the Italian Boy by Sarah Wise, which chronicles grave robberies in 1830's London.
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Shatter the Darkness (Let the Light In) (109,625 words) by MojoFlower
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, 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.
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Pax americana (109,267 words) by emmadelosnardos
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: "There is a very thin line between that which kills and that which heals." As John is preparing to leave 221B, Sherlock forces his hand with a surprise trip to NYC. But will Sherlock ever understand sentiment? Will John trust Sherlock not to harm him?
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between each beat are words unsaid (107,997 words) by darcylindbergh, hudders-and-hiddles
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: On their wedding night, John and Sherlock gift each other with the things they each said when the other could not hear, the things they each put down where the other could not see: a collection of writings that illustrate the way their love for one another has grown over the years.
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Eyes Up, Heels Down (107,845 words) by CodenameMeretricious
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Additional Tags: Equestrian!lock, Fluff, Angst, Humor, Sherlock rides horses, John grooms them, equestrian AU, Horses, sports AU, show jumping, Alternative Universe - Equestrian, AU
Summary: Sherlock is a top eventing rider currently training at Baker Farms. John is the new groom who's been told to steer clear of the surly rider and his horses.
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The Beginning of Knowledge (104,945 words) by ancientreader
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Bill Murray/John Watson, past Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty
Summary: Jim's lessons are hard to unlearn.
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Multiply (the sum of our parts) (103,147 words) by 1electricpirate
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: After Reichenbach and in order to 1) Keep Sherlock alive, 2) Keep John alive and 3) Get Sherlock home to England as soon as possible, Mycroft devises a plan that will not only incentivise John's continued sanity and survival but force Sherlock to come running. It is a perfect plan, though perhaps less than ethically sound. He has no doubts that using frozen samples of your younger brother's sperm to create children for his husband to care for falls deeply within the realm of socially unacceptable behaviour, but it is efficient, and that is what matters most.
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A Ritual to Read to Each Other (101,463 words) by weeesi
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: After Mycroft terminated his exile but before Sherlock could escape from the infuriating plane, John and Mary were whisked away by car to an unknown location. Sherlock hasn't seen them for an entire year. He doesn't know when he'll see John again -- until one day, he does. But, of course, nothing is simple.
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The Prize (101,022 words) by Trillsabells
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: On 29 January 2010 an unknown Event wiped out 98% of the population. This is the story of the survivors, four months on.
sherlockbbc, so I put this list together. Then I thought it might useful for others too, as it contains some of my very favorite Johnlock fics. Listed in descending order of length.All are complete except where noted.
I will add to this list as I read more, so check back from time to time for new additions.
*Updated 20 November 2017*
Series:
Sketchy (523,274 words) by serpentynka
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/OMC
Summary: What (and who) will be left when nobody cares about your Work? A slow-burn fic with cases, places, mistaken identities, unfair choices, essential changes, violent feels, blatant lies, fearless portraiture, family secrets, high-risk bespoke gifts, durable friendships, bedtime stories, foreign travel and tongues, sickness (and health), and the significance of things which are slow to unfurl -- but cannot be ignored. Oh, and...porn.
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On Pins and Needles (393,277 words) by J_Baillier
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: None given for the series. Sherlock contracts Guillain-Barré syndrome.
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The Watsons of Saughton (362,646 words) by dkwilliams, Diana Williams
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Sebastian Moran/James Moriarty
Summary: John Watson, the new Earl of Saughton, is madly in love with the beautiful Mary Morstan. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of ruin and his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He has little choice when he is introduced to Mycroft Holmes, a civil servant of apparently unlimited wealth and no social ambitions for himself - but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only brother, the unorthodox and irascible Omega Sherlock Holmes. Can John forget the woman he loved and find happiness with a man so very different from his lost love?
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Wild About Harry Series (349,520 words) by PlaidAdder
Rating: Teen
Relationships: John/Sherlock, Harry/Clara, Molly/Lestrade
Summary: All the stories featuring Harry Watson in one place, in the order in which I wrote them. (Harry features prominently, but the main characters are really John and Sherlock. Casefics with strong relationship components.)
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Ava Watson Verse (347,720 words) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but it is a kid!fic where John has a 5-year-old daughter. Lots of angst, post-Reichenbach.
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Over/Under Series (319,562 words) by Khorazir
Rating: Teen to Mature
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but it is a post-Reichenbach, very slow burn friends-to-lovers AU with each installment involving a different kind of travel.
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The Faithful Compass Series (300,444 words) by KeelieThompson1
Rating: Mature
Relationships: John/Sherlock
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.
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I'm A Flame And You're My Fire Series (297,749 words) by Morwen_Maranwe
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: After being shot and invalided from the Army, John is living a despondent life with a wife who has no respect and no love for him any longer, yet he is desperate to make their marriage work. In a last ditch effort to save their marriage, he moves them out of London and to some small, nameless town where his good friend, Mike Stamford, has been able to get him a job as a teacher at a secondary school. There he meets a teenage boy who he has an undeniable connection to, and who has the ability to make his life seem less meaningless. Though he knows that it’s wrong, John just can’t stop the relationship he is developing with Sherlock from growing. It slowly begins to spiral out of control, consuming his entire life like a wild fire and changing him in ways he didn’t think were possible anymore.
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Scotland (279,413 words) by snorklepie
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Original Character
Summary:“What are we, now?” John mused aloud, once they were in a cab heading back to Baker street. It was a cool, damp afternoon and Sherlock was studying the passers-by with detached interest. He glanced over at John with a raised eyebrow, his fingers idly worrying at one of the buttons on his coat.
“Nothing seems quite right. What would you call me, if somebody asked?” John waved a hand vaguely at the space between them. “What do we call… this?” Sherlock stared at him for quite a while, his brow furrowed. John began to feel a little self conscious. The taxi lurched as they turned a sharp corner, and he flung out his arm to steady himself. Sherlock caught his wrist, and held tight.
“Everything.” Sherlock said quietly, and after a moment he let go and resumed his study of the streets outside. John barely even heard the words, he said them so softly. “Everything. That’s what you are.” John stared at Sherlock’s profile against the cab window and exhaled slowly. After a long moment, he reached out and touched Sherlock’s long fingers where they were fiddling with the button on his coat. The tall man didn’t look around again, but his fingers slowly unfurled before curling deliberately around John’s hand.
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Performance in a Leading Role Series (223,707 words) by Mad_Lori
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is an Oscar winner in the midst of a career slump. John Watson is an Everyman actor trapped in the rom-com ghetto. When they are cast as a gay couple in a new independent drama, will they surprise each other? Will their on-screen romance make its way into the real world?
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Tennis Series (215,916 words) by jupiter_ash
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but this is a tennis AU where both John and Sherlock are professional tennis players.
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Keep the Car Running Series (212,932) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Summary: If Mycroft Holmes lived in a world where people could steal information from the subconsciouses of others, tell me he wouldn't be all over that when he had Moriarty in custody.
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The Getting Better Series (199,424 words) by LittlePippin
Rating: T
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but it's a post-Reichenbach return series with lots of hurt/comfort, sickness and injury.
(Note: This series has been deleted. The link above leads to a rec with links to cached versions of the stories.)
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Just Like That (196,843 words) by cwb
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: None given for the series, but it's a Midwestern U.S. teenlock AU.
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In My Master's House Verse (185,357 words) by brighteyed_jill
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock, Mycroft/Lestrade
Summary: None given for the series, but it's a slavery AU where John and Lestrade are Sherlock's and Mycroft's personal house slaves, respectively. There are 9 parts posted, and the author says there will be at least one more.
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Tristram Holmes AU (182,055 words) by
swissmarg (yes, that's me)Rating: T to M
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: Spinoff of the Getting Better series by nox_candida. Characters used with permission.
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Be Here Now Universe (181,811 words) by todesfuge
Rating: M
Relationships: John/Sherlock, John/OFC
Summary: John Watson was already fighting demons when he and Sherlock met. With Sherlock's suicide, it all comes flooding back, forcing Sherlock to intervene before he's solved the persistent riddles of Jim Moriarty and his game. Together they find that something darker lurks behind Moriarty, forcing Sherlock, John, and Irene Adler into an even deadlier game with a much more dangerous foe. Begins six months after the events of The Reichenbach Fall.
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The Circle of Fifths Series (162,734 words) by Nikoshinigami
Rating: T/M
Relationships: John/Sherlock, John/Mary
Summary: Stories dealing with the resolution of season two's "The Reichenbach Fall".
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A Magic Moment (159,828 words) by alexxphoenix42
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/OC, John Watson/OC, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: Although John and Sherlock were both upper-level students at Hogwarts, they had never had a reason to actually speak before that night in detention together. Sherlock discovers there's just something about John that he can't pin down. Obviously John is something that requires a little more study.
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The Same River Twice (151,303 words) by PlaidAdder
Rating: Teen
Relationships: John/Sherlock, Harry/Clara, Lestrade/Molly
Summary: A pair of stories based on Sherlock, beginning a month after "The Reichenbach Fall." All casefic, combining elements from more than one case. All Johnlock, though other relationships may creep in. Plot and character-driven, though not entirely devoid of other pleasures.
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Cinnamon Series (150,130 words) by lbmisscharlie
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: When Sherlock invites John to live with him, he fails to mention that he's a single father to a four-year-old girl.
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Ode to Broken Things (149,008 words) by ArabellaStrange
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: 'With Mary, he’d done everything in the right order — if at breakneck speed: flirting, sex, seriousness, rude and awkward realism, proper caring. He and Sherlock, though, had spent so many years loving each other quietly, imagining fantasy versions of each other, in amongst the everyday of bad tempers and absent-minded scratching, that never were interrupted by mismatched desires or poor communication. Was it possible (he thought, in a slightly out-of-body way, scrawling out a prescription) they had missed the opportunity to be in love with each other?'
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Conductivity Series (146,737 words) by liriodendron
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
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"
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The Pure and Simple Truth Series (137,738 words) by 221b_hound
Rating: Mature
Relationships: John Watson/Mary Morstan, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson/Mary Morstan, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: A Pure and Simple Truth reworks the last 7 episodes of BBC Sherlock, from The Empty Hearse to the Final Problem. Some elements will be the same, some reused, some discarded. This series will work towards eventual Johnlock.
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The Ichor of Talos (127,201 words) by Nikoshinigami
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: After being convicted of the murder of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson is sentenced to confinement, therapy, and to the constant companionship of a hologram of his victim to aid in his rehabilitation. While John remains uncertain of his guilt, Sherlock is only too happy to engage in the mystery of his own murder to try and discover why he died and how events set his path to cross with the war ravaged stranger he's now posthumously bound to.
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The Infiltrate Series (117,422 words) by SkipandDi (ladyflowdi)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: This is a moment Sherlock will look back to time and again as the future stalks forward; an instance he will use to justify his actions, the decisions he will make. He'd known Moriarty was working solely for his attention, even John had recognized as much during the first assault. But Sherlock has been a fool, a dangerous, incompetent fool, because this is so far beyond all that. It always has been.
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The Holiday Cycle (115,452 words) by flawedamythyst
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherrinford Holmes/Molly Hooper
Summary: John and Sherlock made a deal so that Sherlock could come home. Now it's time for them to uphold it.
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The Baker Street Nativity Verse (109,642 words) by SwissMiss (again, me)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: Fusion between Sherlock (BBC) and Nativity! (2009 movie starring Martin Freeman). Sherlock is a primary school teacher and John is assigned to be his classroom assistant. Together, they are charged with putting on the school's Nativity play. What could possibly go wrong? Includes main story, DVD extras, and 24-part Advent calendar drabbles.
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Happiness Can Be Found (106,609 words) by HollyShadow88
Rating: Teen to Explicit
Relationships: John/Mary, John/Sherlock
Summary of Part 1: Potterlock, written and completed during NaNoWriMo 2014. When Minerva McGonagall makes a surprise visit to Baker Street, a part of John's past that he hoped he put behind him comes crashing back to the forefront. With a baby and an overly curious Sherlock Holmes in tow, John is forced back into the world he put behind him to bring a stop to the mysteriously familiar deaths haunting London.
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Four Corners of the Western World (100,486 words) by pennypaperbrain
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: John/Sherlock
Summary: Undercover after Reichenbach, tracking the snipers who threatened his friends, Sherlock has one thing left he can depend on: his mind. But when he faces making his first kill, alone among the mad excesses of Las Vegas, the pressure turns out to be greater than even he can endure without John beside him.
Stand-Alones:
Deflowered - Director's Cut (327,907 words) by Lorelei_Lee
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: It should have been strictly business. Being a Mafia boss with a sadistic sexual streak, John had long since realised that his playthings were in it for the money only. Being a masochistic rent boy, Sherlock seemed too good to be true. Little did they know…
Note: This is a translation by me (swissmarg) of this fic:
Unberührt - Deflowered - extended version (324,448 words) by Lorelei_Lee
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: Mafia!AU – Alternatives Universum. Nach dem Tod seiner Mutter wächst Sherlock bei seinem Vater, dessen Frau und deren Sohn Mycroft – seinem Halbbruder – auf. Jahre später ersteigert der Londoner Mafia-Boss John „Doc“ Watson Sherlocks Jungfräulichkeit in Irene Adlers Bordell. Was für John als amüsante Abwechslung begonnen hat, entwickelt eine eigene Dynamik und bald kann John nicht mehr von Sherlock lassen. Als die Bürgermeisterwahlen anstehen, wird alles nur noch komplizierter, denn ein gewisser Mycroft Holmes ist einer der Kandidaten - doch er ist nicht der Wunschkandidat der Mafia...
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The Gilded Cage (327,000 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/Original Male Character(s), Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: In a world where Omegas are the property of the elite Alphas, locked away and treasured by those wealthy enough to buy them, John never questioned his flatmate's secondary gender. Sherlock Holmes was an Alpha through-and through. Wasn't he? A chance discovery turns the world on its head, and John is left grappling to come to terms with Sherlock's past as events conspire to threaten their future.
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The Omega Sutra (275,366 words) by Ghislainem70
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes/Original Male Character
Summary: In an Omegaverse/Angels & Demons AU, Sherlock Holmes has a secret life. John Watson shouldn't want to be part of it. But they'll go through heaven and hell to keep each other. Johnlock and Mystrade caught up in the eternal battle of angels and demons for supremacy.
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School For Scandal (222,196 words) by rubberbird
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock lusts from afar. John tries hard to fool himself.
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The Case of the Green Gown (209,247 words) by splix
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: ...Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association. I was alone. ---Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
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At Night In The Floating World (207,101 words) by PoppyAlexander
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty, Molly Hooper/Greg Lestrade
Summary: "Xie [...] had invented an entire pleasure-industry by combining superior visual aesthetics with impeccable personal attention. Drasha salons were by that time a feature of any even half-decent house of repose in every pleasure district in the British Isles, but once upon a time, when Xie debuted, there had been only one, and Xie had named it: the Icehouse." Deep-cover Unity operative, the Face, finds himself drawn into the orbit of the otherworldly Xie, a world-famous "drasha" (drag+geisha) artist in a London house of repose. As a resistance plot unfolds, the secrets each of them keeps will draw them together even as they threaten to drive them apart. Modern-day dystopian/one-world government/espionage/geisha!lock AU
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A River Without Banks (203,286 words) by Chryse
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: "You love this, being Sherlock Holmes." He had once. When had it all gone so wrong?
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Nature and Nurture (203,273 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: The British Government accidentally clones Sherlock Holmes. Which brings a baby to 221B Baker Street.
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Names for the Galaxy (191,102 words) by evadne
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sci-fi AU. Sherlock Holmes is a recent arrival to 22nd century earth, and determined to find out who he is and where he comes from. John Watson has the unenviable task of teaching him how to be a normal human being.
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All the Best and Brightest Creatures (188,426 words) by wordstrings
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock sent Jim Moriarty to prison for killing Carl Powers at age ten. This is the story of the consequences.
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Mise en Place (161,004 words) by azriona
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: John Watson had no intentions of taking over the family business, but when he returns from Afghanistan, battered and bruised, and discovers that his sister Harry has run their restaurant into the ground, he doesn't have much choice. There's only one thing that can save the Empire from closing for good – the celebrity star of the BBC series Restaurant Reconstructed, Chef Sherlock Holmes.
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Gimme Shelter (159369 words) by SinceWhenDoYouCallMe_John
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: All John Watson wants is the feeling of a freshly waxed surfboard under his feet and the hot California sun baking down onto his back. To finally go pro in the newly formed world of professional surfing and leave the dark memories of his past behind him as he rips across the face of a towering blue barrel. To lounge beside the beach bonfire every evening with an ice cold beer tucked into the cool sand beside him and listen to Pink Floyd and the Doors while the saltwater dries in his sun bleached hair. That's all he wants, that is, until the hot young phenom taking Oahu and the Hawaiian shores by storm steps up next to him in the sand in the second round of the 1976 International Surf Competition.
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Castle and Sand (158,541 words) by grey853
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Sherlock and John both have difficult pasts that affect their evolving relationship. When John prevents a mugging, it sets off a dangerous chain of events that not only impacts him, but his whole family. In the end there's a wedding and a honeymoon, but will there really be a happy ending?
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The Quiet Man (157,369 words) by ivyblossom
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: "Do you just carry on talking when I'm away?"
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The Fabric of Life (156,378 words) by holyfant
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: The fabric of life rearranges itself around the re-emergence of Sherlock.
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Emperor Tales of the Frozen South (153,593 words) by cwb
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: At the bottom of the world, two intrepid explorers make their way in the harshest of environments. An important journey must be taken, and prophecies fulfilled, but not before family meddling, political interference, and self-doubt threaten to alter the future of an entire species. If you know me at all, you know that this had to be done.
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A Fold in the Universe (152,811 words) by darkest_bird
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Greg Lestrade/Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes/Anthea
Summary: Alpha Sherlock and Omega John are in a relationship. Prime Sherlock and Prime John are not. So what happens when a freak fold in the universe switches one John for the other?
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Midnight Blue Serenity (151,908 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?
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Against the Rest of the World (151,701 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.
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Boyfriend Material (151282 words) by PoppyAlexander
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Boston Brawlers' team captain John Watson longs for two things: a championship before he retires, and a boyfriend. Assigned to room with goaltender Sherlock Holmes--known around the league as both a genius and a "weird dude"--on Brawlers' roadtrips, John discovers the things they have in common that lead to an easy friendship and a convenient arrangement.
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Raison d'être (148,681 words) by AmphigoricSymphony
Rating: Mature
Relationships: John/Mary, John/Sherlock
Summary: The missing months of His Last Vow, starting from Sherlock dropping in John's arms at 221B and carrying through the months of Hospital he endured. This is a study in emotional and physical trauma, striving to stick as close to the cannon plot as possible. At Christmas Dinner, Mycroft asks why they are even celebrating. His mother's answer, 'Sherlock is home from hospital,' leads us to believe Sherlock was in hospital the majority of the time frame of his fall from shock at Baker Street, to nearly Christmas itself. We have no explanation for what John was doing all that time, so this is an effort to fill the gap. Enjoy!
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The Frost Is All Over (148,518 words) by Chryse
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson/OMC
Summary: John was brave and clever and loyal, a commoner who longed for an exciting life. Sherlock was dashing and brilliant and passionate, an Earl’s son who longed to solve crimes. Being a Tale of Glorious Adventures, Love Letters, Treachery, Longing, Secret Identities, Deathbed Confessions, First Kisses, Daring Escapes, and True Love.
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Colors (140,836 words) by Quesarasara
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Victor Trevor, John Watson/Original Female Character(s), Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Sarah Sawyer/John Watson, Molly Hooper/Original Male Character
Summary: Everyone on earth is born with eyes that see in black, white, and an endless series of greys. When you meet your soulmate, you finally see the world in color. We're all searching for the person who brings color to our lives. John and Sherlock are no exception.
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Saving Sherlock Holmes (139,494 words) by earlgreytea68
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Summary: Sherlock Holmes, schoolboy. Yeah, that basically sums it up.
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The Last Place You'd Look (138,241 words) by theorclair
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (pre-slash)
Summary: An abuse case turns into an investigation where Sherlock, John, and all of Scotland Yard will learn stunning things about Sherlock's past and will change the relationship between him and John forever.
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The Bang and the Clatter (137,048 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.
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Method Act (136,749 words) by splix
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Various combinations of Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Gatiss, and Louise Brealey (RPF crossover)
Summary: Something very strange keeps happening at 7:35 PM.
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Mary (136,145 words) by kinklock
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Monte Carlo, 1937. While working as the companion to Sebastian Wilkes, a young man becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, John Watson. Rumour has it that Watson, owner of the grand country estate Manderley, is still haunted by the sudden death of his late wife. But as the young man soon learns, not all is as it seems.
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Out There (131,695 words) by DiscordantWords
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: FBI Special Agent John Watson, medical doctor and army veteran, is assigned to assist eccentric genius Sherlock Holmes with paranormal investigations on the X Files project. This is a fusion with The X Files, written for the Fall TV Season Challenge.
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The Horse and His Doctor (128,999 words) by khorazir
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Invalided after a run in with a poacher in Siberia, veterinary surgeon John Watson finds it difficult to acclimatise to the mundanity of London life. Things change when a friend invites him along to a local animal shelter and he meets their latest acquisition, a trouble-making Frisian with the strangest eyes and even stranger quirks John has ever encountered in a horse.
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To Light Another's Path (128,655 words) by BeautifulFiction
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Teaching John to observe seems to be a losing battle, but when Sherlock falls ill and submits himself to John's care, will he realise that there is more to life than the science of deduction? Meanwhile, there is a murder to solve, and John must try and convince Sherlock not to sacrifice his own health for the sake of the case. Eventual John/Sherlock Hurt/Comfort case fic. Post the Great Game
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Bel Canto (127,481 words) by bendingsignpost
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Irene Adler/Kate, Sherlock Holmes/Irene Adler
Summary: After years of waiting for wealthy patrons to faint, Dr John Watson discovers a far more interesting patient in the opera house basement. (AU through a Phantom of the Opera lens.)
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One Night In December (126,187 words) by Holly Sykes
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: London, 29th December 1940, 8 pm. The London Blitz reached its nadir with the bombing of the City of London and the area around its most beloved landmark, St. Paul’s Cathedral. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes meet as the flames blaze and roar all around them.
But who is that dark-haired young man and why is he risking his life in such a careless manner? This is what Doctor Watson is wondering, as he eventually becomes enmeshed in a mystery that will take him away from his dreary, hopeless life and plunge him into the secret life of wartime London.
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Full Court Press (126,123 words) by MissDavis
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Anderson/Sally Donovan
Summary: Sherlock Holmes has accepted a scholarship to play basketball at the College of St. Bartholomew's. He expects to be their star player and turn the team's losing record around. He does not expect to fall in love with the team's captain, a certain scrappy point guard named John Watson. Or: Sherlock is the team's best shooter. John is the team's best ball-handler.
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Against All Odds (125,971 words) by ravenscar
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: When a Crusader crosses paths with an enigmatic young Briton in the Holy Land, their lives are changed forever.
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A Further Sea (125,518 words) by i_ship_an_armada, ShinySherlock
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Molly Hooper/Janine
Summary: Here be a tale of adventure for both body and soul, but beware if ye be not of stout heart, for this be piratelock, ya savvy? Luckless ship's surgeon John Watson takes a chance, and finds himself eye to eye with The Ghost, the scourge of the seven seas and a definite thorn in the side of the blaggard, James Moriarty. But when John finds there's more to this most cunning pirate than be meetin' the eye, he has to choose--is it a pirate's life for him?
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Thirst (122,257 words) by bittergreens
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: When John realizes he has feelings for Sherlock and decides he must keep those feelings secret at all costs, the resulting tension might bring Baker Street to the ground.
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Breakable (117,628 words) by MissDavis
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: After John is seriously injured, Sherlock struggles to figure out how to help him, keep himself sane, and maybe, just maybe, get their life back to the way it's supposed to be.
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The Taming of John Watson (115,862 words) by taylorpotato
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Past Sherlock Holmes/OMC, implied Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Implied Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Sebastian Moran/Jim Moriarty
Summary: In the aftermath of the Great Game, Sherlock decides it's time to break in the lovely John Watson. Gratuitous smut, whips, chains, and slashy goodness will ensue (now complete except for epilogue).
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Safe Distance (114,805 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.
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Two Two One Bravo Baker (114,574 words) by abundantlyqueer
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Captain John Watson of 40 Commando, the Royal Marines, is assigned to protect and assist Sherlock Holmes as he investigates what appears to be a simple war atrocity in Afghanistan. An intense attraction ignites between the two men as they uncover a conspiracy that threatens everything they’ve ever known, but Sherlock is as much hunted as hunter, and everyone close to him is in deadly danger. Can he solve the case in time to save himself and John?
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The Illustrious Client (113274 words) by ArabellaStrange
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: ‘We’re a couple!' John burst out, bluntly. His face was nearly twitching with rage. He hadn’t even meant to say anything, to anybody, because he wanted what they had for himself just a bit longer, for a million reasons half-romantic and half-defensive, and yet here he was, gripping Chez Francine’s thick cream tablecloth with enough force to tear it in half, suddenly wanting nothing more than to tell everyone within earshot that Sherlock was absolutely infuriating, surprisingly good at blowjobs, and probably in love with him.
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All Things Will Die, Nothing Will Die (109,662 words) by Holly Sykes (Artemis8147)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: Time: January, 1831. Something suspicious is happening at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital: corpses are brought in and sold to the surgeons, but Sherlock Holmes suspects foul play.
He’s not alone: at Guy’s Hospital, Doctor John Watson refuses to pay twelve guineas for a body that he fears has been tampered with. The lives of the two men collide one frosty winter night and from that moment on, they will never be torn asunder. A macabre AU story of grisly murders, passion, sex and mystery, with an unambiguous happy ending; inspired by the London Burkers crimes, by several short stories written around that period and by the book The Vampyre Family by Andrew McConnell Stott. Also, a very big help was the Italian Boy by Sarah Wise, which chronicles grave robberies in 1830's London.
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Shatter the Darkness (Let the Light In) (109,625 words) by MojoFlower
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, 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.
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Pax americana (109,267 words) by emmadelosnardos
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: "There is a very thin line between that which kills and that which heals." As John is preparing to leave 221B, Sherlock forces his hand with a surprise trip to NYC. But will Sherlock ever understand sentiment? Will John trust Sherlock not to harm him?
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between each beat are words unsaid (107,997 words) by darcylindbergh, hudders-and-hiddles
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: On their wedding night, John and Sherlock gift each other with the things they each said when the other could not hear, the things they each put down where the other could not see: a collection of writings that illustrate the way their love for one another has grown over the years.
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Eyes Up, Heels Down (107,845 words) by CodenameMeretricious
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Additional Tags: Equestrian!lock, Fluff, Angst, Humor, Sherlock rides horses, John grooms them, equestrian AU, Horses, sports AU, show jumping, Alternative Universe - Equestrian, AU
Summary: Sherlock is a top eventing rider currently training at Baker Farms. John is the new groom who's been told to steer clear of the surly rider and his horses.
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The Beginning of Knowledge (104,945 words) by ancientreader
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Bill Murray/John Watson, past Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty
Summary: Jim's lessons are hard to unlearn.
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Multiply (the sum of our parts) (103,147 words) by 1electricpirate
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: After Reichenbach and in order to 1) Keep Sherlock alive, 2) Keep John alive and 3) Get Sherlock home to England as soon as possible, Mycroft devises a plan that will not only incentivise John's continued sanity and survival but force Sherlock to come running. It is a perfect plan, though perhaps less than ethically sound. He has no doubts that using frozen samples of your younger brother's sperm to create children for his husband to care for falls deeply within the realm of socially unacceptable behaviour, but it is efficient, and that is what matters most.
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A Ritual to Read to Each Other (101,463 words) by weeesi
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson
Summary: After Mycroft terminated his exile but before Sherlock could escape from the infuriating plane, John and Mary were whisked away by car to an unknown location. Sherlock hasn't seen them for an entire year. He doesn't know when he'll see John again -- until one day, he does. But, of course, nothing is simple.
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The Prize (101,022 words) by Trillsabells
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: On 29 January 2010 an unknown Event wiped out 98% of the population. This is the story of the survivors, four months on.
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Thank you for adding my fic "Against all odds"
Date: 2016-08-10 09:52 am (UTC)- Ravenscar
RE: Thank you for adding my fic "Against all odds"
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