Soldiering on Through Friendly Fire

Title: Soldiering on Through Friendly Fire

Author: Schmiezi

Fandom: Sherlock

Characters: John, Sherlock, Moran

Warning: PG-13, violence, suicide (Moran)

Length: Medium

Status: Completed

A shadow from Sherlock's past forces the boys to reunite after the fall.
Set directly after Reichenbach. John is not as unknowing as Mycroft thought, and not as easy to break as Moran thought. Sherlock might not be as unaffected by this caring thing as he thought himself.

AO3

I've taken the liberty to grade this as a friendship fic instead of pre-slash. While there are some hints, I cannot see it as more than the deep friendship John and Sherlock share in canon, too.

It's very interesting to see Sherlock have some history with Moran. Usually, John is the one who was in the army with Moran, or who gets to know him. Somehow, I like the chemistry. Sherlock and Moran were both graspable, and I could imagine it rather well. With all of Moran's obsession.

A Slight Misunderstanding

Title: A Slight Misunderstanding
Author: Coragyps
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John/Sherlock, Moran
Warning: R, slash, murder (Sherlock --> Jim)
Length: Medium
Status: Completed


In which I, John Watson, manage to accidentally convince my flatmate I'm in love with him.


AO3

A fluffy fic in which John tells Sherlock that he loves him. Too bad Sherlock interprets it as romantic love. And John is not so sure if Sherlock isn't right...
Basically: John does a lot of soal finding, meanwhile Sherlock finds the balance in their relationship.

Resurrection

Title: Resurrection
Author: SilentAuror
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John/Sherlock, Mary/(John), Moran
Warning: R, slash, cheating (John)
Length: Novella
Status: Completed


It's been three years. Can a man simply come back from the dead? 

AO3

Why can't this be canon?
Plot is fairly easy.
Sherlock returns.
John marries Mary. Sherlock is the Best Man.
John misses Sherlock, and Mary is nasty.

The feelings are very nicely depicted. A bit sappy, maybe even.
Fix it fic.


Same author as:
Deductions of a Lesser Mind
Against the Rest of the World
Vena Cava

The Circle of Fifths

Title: The Circle of Fifths
Author: Nikoshinigami
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John/Sherlock, John/Mary, OFC (Billie), Mycroft, OMC (Church), Jim, Moran
Warning: NC-17, slash, injury (John, Sherlock), character death (Mary)
Length: Novel
Status: Completed

John writes a blog entry.

E-mails between John and Mr. Sigerson.

John's life is not only in danger but caught in a delicate balance between love, friendship, and his own desires. A supporting character in his own life's story, it may already be too late to affect his life's course.

Nothing is ever simple for John Watson when it involves Sherlock Holmes. With the world doing its best to outdo even its only consulting detective, can the things left unsaid ever finally be spoken?

John has enough to deal with in his normal life as it is, but when a stranger arrives with a new case that cannot be turned down, can he juggle his choices with their repercussions well enough for them all to survive?



AO3



Oh God. Oh God.
I just have to quote.

I don't come first anymore, John," he admitted, not as blind to the fact as some of his actions seemed to indicate. "Things come up, girlfriends or wives make requests. Schedules aren't as flexible. I'm asking you to save a date for me. I want, when this is over, one more day where I am the most important thing you have planned for that evening."

Then there's the brilliant ""hurt my brother.." talk with awkward Mycroft, more awkward John, and uncomfortable Sherlock.

John would wait. John would always wait. Because Sherlock couldn’t come to him if he didn’t.

Just have to love that line. Especially when you remember it from the second instalment, the one when Sherlock tells John that he will be waiting because if he won't, John can't come to him.

You have to love this story. Everybody does.

Same author as:
Naked, Stripped, and Raw
Two of Every Kind
The Ichor of Talos

Bodies and Minds

Title: Bodies and Minds
Author: NezumiPi
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John/Sherlock, Mycroft, Lestrade, Moran
Warning: PG-13, disability (Sherlock)
Length: Medium
Status: Ongoing

 Watson, Lestrade, and Mycroft go back into Sherlock's life to try to understand his death. 

Molly Hooper visits a still-grieving John Watson with the news that Sherlock is alive, but he's disappeared. John, Lestrade, and Mycroft travel to America in search of him, but what they find is not what they expected. Includes no fewer than 6 characters named John.


AO3


Sherlock!whump. And an interesting ethical question is being raised.
I rec this for everybody. The pairing is barely graspable.
Everybody who wants to see Sherlock at an animal shelter surrounded by a rabbit, a gold fish and several dogs. All of them named John. No. It's not crack.

The Fall of Gods

Title: The Fall of Gods
Author: ImpishTubist
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Victor/Sherlock, John/Lestrade, Moran
Warning: NC-17, slash, injury (Sherlock), illness (Victor), character death (Victor)
Length: Novel
Status: Completed

Sherlock remembers a time before Moriarty. It seemed to go on forever. It was over all too quickly.

Sherlock finds an ally in death and begins the slow process of dismantling Moriarty's network, not knowing if he'll ever be able to return home. Meanwhile, back in London, John and Lestrade mourn, remember, and move on.

AO3

And when it rains, think of me.
Think of me, and know that you were loved.

This fic is cruel. It is. One of the few stories that made me cry.
I knew he'd die from the moment he joined Sherlock. He was too perfect, too big a character for life...
Still it hurts. I ache for Victor, and I ache for Sherlock.
Marked classic because this is... the story.

Part of the Until the Night is Gone Series. To my shame, I haven't read all instalments yet. I felt like this piece of fiction is too valuable and emotional to "taint" the rec with the almost fluffy instalment before it, and the pondering mood of the following one...

ImpishTubist managed to make me cry once again.
God damn, I hope they'll give Victor an appearance in season 4. I feel ridiculous crying over a OMC. If this continues, this will be my favorite pairing... with one character that has never appeared in the actual series. I begin to see why so many Mystrade fans went crazy when Mycoft and Lestrade finally were seen in the same room.

Same author as:
They're Gonna Be All Right (Lestrade/Sherlock)
Winter's Child (John/Sherlock, Lestrade)
The Coming of the Night (Lestrade/Sherlock)
The First and Only Convention of the Scotland Yard Matchmaker Committee
A Memory That Never Forgets
An Age of Silver

End of the Story

Title: End of the Story
Author: kres
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John/Sherlock, Lestrade, Moran
Warning: R, slash, injury (Sherlock, John), murder (Sherlock), character death (Mary)
Length: Novella
Status: Completed


He return, the fallout, the pieces you pick up.


AO3


T'is a difficult patient.
There is no way to deny that the mood is very gloomy. The feelings are raw. The characterization very fragile, broken.
Still, I think the end is still too raw. I missed some feel good moment.
I liked it when John came around and asked just the questions that bothered me from the beginning of their, well, affair?
And I have a hard time to decide against labelling this a PTSD (Sherlock) story. I think it's there, but they don't talk about it. So it's no big part of the story.


Same author as:
Terms of Service

Above, Below (Through the Cracks)

Title: Above, Below (Through the Cracks)
Author: doodle
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John/Sherlock, Mycroft, Jim/Moran
Warning: NC-17, slash, character death (Mycroft, Jim, Moran), murder (Sherlock), AU, crossover (Neverwhere - book)
Length: Medium
Status: Completed

London is a city with two faces. There is Above and there is Below. And Below is the city of people who have fallen through the cracks, the lost, the forgotten and the broken.

John Watson returns to London from the war, broken and lost until fate leads him to a man who calls himself the consulting detective and the mercenaries who are hunting him. As the result of a single act of kindness John finds himself pulled in the strange, and wonderful, world of Below as the consulting detective attempts to get to safety and solve the string of violent deaths plaguing Below before he is next.

AO3
also on LJ

Brilliant AU. Truly. The universe is fascinating, and the plot is a bit thin for the great setting, but the characterizaton was on the spot.
Mycroft as a baddie, well, okay. I prefer him to be besotted with Sherlock but he is a terrifying power. I buy that because it's an AU.