The Vibe

Title: The Vibe
Author: ms_soma
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Sherlock/John, Jim
Warning: R, slash, AU
Length: Medium
Status: Completed

(Mostly straight) John is desperate for a change in vocation. Along comes the imposing, and slightly intriguing, Mycroft Holmes with an offer for John to join his brother's shop. Sherlock is doubtful his brother is capable of hiring anyone who is not prudish, squeamish or a complete prat, yet maybe he's on a winner with the good doctor. Not that he'll admit it. Yet.

Featuring all the regulars you know and love (and hate), a trip to Sexpo, pining of the requited and unrequited variety, and lots of talk of butt-plugs and dildos.

AO3

The setting is just too funny not to rec it. The end is somewhat rushed but well... it's funny. Check it out.

A Study in Strays

Title: A Study in Strays

Author: philalethia

Fandom: Sherlock

Characters: John, Sherlock

Warning: PG-13, animal!Sherlock

Length: Medium
Status: Completed

John Watson moves to 221B Baker Street. Unfortunately, the flat's already occupied.

AO3

Sherlock as a cat is rather cute. As well as John as an owner. The magical part remains unexplained but it is fine that way. Let's just call it magic realism.

Major Pieces

Title: Major Pieces
Author: Lindentreeisle
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John, Sherlock, Lestrade
Warning: PG
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


Sherlock knew that he could thoroughly rely upon John Watson's moral sense. And that's why he knew that Lestrade was wrong, wrong, wrong.



AO3

Casefic with John as the main suspect.

Both Sides Now

Title: Both Sides Now
Author: QED_221B
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft
Warning: PG-13, child abuse (Mycroft), violence
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


Mycroft and Sherlock didn't meet until Sherlock was 7, Mycroft lived with his abusive father. Sherlock doesn't learn of the abuse until years later


AO3


This story highlights different aspects of Sherlock and Mycroft's characters.
Sherlock's a brat. And a bastard. Then he's adorable. Then protective. And an idiot. Mycroft claims he isn't, though.
Mycroft appears weak, which was at first rather distracting. A tad OoC one might think. Well, then he is hopeful, just to get all his hopes crushed. Then he forgives Sherlock.

I haven't seen a story that illuminates their relationship from so many different angles.

We Go Anywhere But to the Ground

Title: We Go Anywhere But to the Ground
Author: geordielover
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John/Sherlock
Warning: R, slash, suicidal (John)
Length: Medium
Status: Completed

Every second that ticks by is a reminder of the deafening quiet Sherlock has left behind. John feels his soul slip out of his fingertips, inch by inch, with every passing day.

At some point, he stops trying to hold on.

AO3

Good story. A nice post-TRF.

Coiners

Title: Coiners
Author: oliversnape
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry, Teddy
Warning: R, slash, asexual Harry, post-hogwarts
Length: Novella
Status: Completed


The Ministry needs to approve Severus Snape's application for him to start his life again after the war. Harry Potter has set himself up with a non-dangerous specialist muggle career. Neither have been particularly good at avoiding trouble for long.




AO3


oliversnape. Says everything. I quite liked the combination of asexuality, homosexuality, and family. It mixed well, and it was a calm conoction. No explosion. Just introspection.



Same Author as:
The Pumkin Scone Conspiracy
The Definition of Home (With Sequels: The Definition of Family; The Photo Album)
Far Beyond a Promise Kept

Lover's Eyes

Title: Lover's Eyes
Author: moffnat
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John/Sherlock
Warning: PG-13, character death
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


Sherlock is only doing what's necessary to keep John safe. John is doing what's necessary to keep going.


AO3



Not for the faint of heart. This is sad. There aren't many stories that touched me like this story does. It broke my heart.

Baker Street

Title: Baker Street
Author: StarMarple
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John, Sherlock, Molly
Warning: PG, AU
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


John Watson, lately of the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers, has returned from war with a limp, a bullet in the shoulder, and very little in the way of job prospects. He's down to his last dime and about to be kicked out of his bedsit when he runs into his old classmate Mike Stamford who insists on taking him for pastry and a coffee at a bakery located at 221 Baker Street, where he meets a very unusual pastry chef.


AO3

A yummy story in which Sherlock is a pastry chef who owns a strange but good pastry shop.
You really should have a sweet tooth for this. There's not much up and down. It's more about a wonderfully fluffy universe. In which there is a lot of cake. And biscuits. And don't forget the tea. To compliment the biscuits.

Hindsight

Title: Hindsight
Author: LapisLazuli
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John, Sherlock,  Mycroft
Warning: PG-13, disability (blind Sherlock), injury (Sherlock)
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


Sherlock is seriously injured during a case. John is there to support him as he struggles to cope with the changes this injury causes to his life. Despite set-backs, this newfound level of intimacy gradually draws them even closer together, bringing their already close relationship to the next level.

AO3

Sherlock!whump. I quite liked how it wasn't overly dramaticized but you feel how Sherlock suffers before he comes to accept his disability. Then there's this light at the end of the tunnel.

A Week Is just Seven Days Isn't It?

Title: A Week Is just Seven Days Isn't It?
Author: scifigrl47
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Sherlock, John, Lestrade
Warning: PG-13, injury (Sherlock)
Length: Medium
Status: Completed

When John heads overseas for a week, Sherlock's forced to fend for himself. It goes about as well as anyone could have anticipated. Which is to say, very, very poorly. Don't worry, things'll be fine in just seven days.



FF

Simply hilarious. One of the best comedies out there in the fandom.

Something New

Title: Something New
Author: Aithilin, Wind_Ryder
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Sherlock/Lestrade/Victor
Warning: PG-13, threesome, pregnancy, omegaverse
Length: Short
Status: Ongoing


Sherlock and Lestrade spend Sherlock's heat together while their partner, Victor, is out of the country. Sherlock becomes pregnant, and they decide not to tell Victor until he comes home. They don't realize that the shock might be a bit too much for him.



AO3

Very sweet compilation of short stories from a specific universe. I quite like the characterizations. They just... fit.

Wind_Ryder also wrote:
Brother Mine
Finally

Finally

Title: Finally
Author: Wind_Ryder
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Victor, Sherlock, John
Warning: PG
Length: Short
Status: Completed


Sherlock's friend Victor Trevor stops by uninvited, and John isn't happy. He hates everything about Victor, but that's not what bothers him the most. What bothers him the most is that he's slowly realized that he might have feelings for Sherlock, and Victor might be in the way.


AO3


Such a sweet, fluffy oneshot. I quite liked the explanation why Victor calls Sherlock "Bee" and nobody else does. It somehow... fits. If the writers ever introduce Victor Trevor to the show, they better do it like this ~ Wind_Ryder shows how it's done.


Same author:
Brother Mine
Something New

The Six Steps of Courtship

Title: The Six Steps of Courtship
Author: emptycel
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John/Sherlock
Warning: PG-13, omegaverse
Length: Medium
Status: Ongoing

Sherlock doesn't hold any love for his omega status. However, that doesn't stop him from going undercover and joining on online dating site to try and find the person responsible for a string of vicious omega homicides.

It should have been easy, open and shut.

He just didn't expect to meet an alpha named John Watson.

AO3

A very good omegaverse story that isn't fixated on smut. There's comedy, there's fluff, there's a case. Yay ~

Same author:
Predator

The Ichor of Talos

Title: The Ichor of Talos
Author: Nikoshinigami
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John, Sherlock, Lestrade
Warning: PG-13, character death (Sherlock - but not like you think)
Length: Novella
Status: Completed


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.


AO3

Another work of Nikoshinigami's that I fell in love with. It's an anxious relationship, though. Unlike with stories like "Chrysalis", there's so much right about the setting, and yet you feel the darkness hovering over everything. I cannot but be wary of what is to come.
Still, I love it.
Definitely one of the best authors in the fandom right now.

Same author as:
The Circle of Fifths
Two of Every Kind
Naked, Stripped, and Raw