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thegameison_sh Cycle Three, Challenge Four
Joint second :D

Title: Before My Helpless Sight
Character/Pairing: Sherlock/John
Genre: Angst (mild)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Discussion of war, brief but including current conflicts involving UK and NATO forces. (Yes, they are rather on my mind right now.)

Disclaimer: The Holmes characters fall in the public domain: This version falls under the creative control of Messers Moffatt and Gatiss, and the BBC. No ownership is implied or inferred. This is done for love only.

Prompt: Phantom touch
Summary: In his dreams, John walks abroad in war zones, a ghost observing the soldiers still there. After a while, he finds that he is not the only one.
AN: The title comes from one of the Wilfred Owen war canon I find most memorable, Dulce et Decorum Est.

Fic masterpost.
Crossposted to: sherlockbbc, watsons_woes, johnsherlock, 221b_slash.


( Before My Helpless Sight )

Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Title: Will Not Fade Away (epilogue)
Character/Pairing: Sherlock/John, John/Mary
Length: c.900 words
Rating: R (series)
Spoilers: Reichenbach
Warnings: Character death

Disclaimer: The Holmes characters fall in the public domain: This version falls under the creative control of Messers Moffatt and Gatiss, and the BBC. No ownership is implied or inferred. This is done for love only.

Summary: Epilogue of the Youth of the Heart sequence. Sherlock and John go on with life, together
AN: A short one to finish, and that’s your lot. Thank you so much people who have stuck with this through all the angst - there came a point at the beginning of chapter four where even I, the evil author, wanted to fix it so that they could all live in OT3 land with a baby, but that was never where the story was going, and I do have purpose in my sad ficcery. Hopefully this is a bit of a balm after all the woe and grief. Thanks guys, it’s been fun!

Youth of the Heart
1: Love That is True Love
2: Never Be Sung
3: The Wisdom of Winter is Madness in May
4: Saved for My Darling
Epilogue: Will Not Fade Away

Crossposted to: 221b_slash, johnsherlock, dispatch_box, sherlockbbc, cox_and_co, watsons_woesMaster Fanfic List


( Will Not Fade Away )

Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Title: The Wisdom of Winter is Madness in May (Youth of the Heart 3/4+epilogue)
Character/Pairing: Sherlock/John, John/Mary, Sherlock/John/Mary
Length: c.2000 words
Rating: R (yes that's gone up from the last part.)
Spoilers: Reichenbach, non-specific
Warnings: Semi-explicit sex scene (brief), angst in spades, injury.

Disclaimer: The Holmes characters fall in the public domain: This version falls under the creative control of Messers Moffatt and Gatiss, and the BBC. No ownership is implied or inferred. This is done for love only.

Summary: Follows Love That Is True Love & Never Be Sung. Sherlock, John and Mary try to work out how to get on with their lives.

Youth of the Heart
1: Love That is True Love
2: Never Be Sung
3: The Wisdom of Winter is Madness in May
4: Saved for My Darling
Epilogue: Will Not Fade Away

Crossposted to: 221b_slash, johnsherlock, dispatch_box, sherlockbbc, cox_and_co, watsons_woes
Master Fanfic List
( The Wisdom of Winter Is Madness in May )

BIG DAMN MEGA POST OF DOOM.

Otherwise known as the watsons_woes July 2011 challenge master post. 31 regular prompts, all on time, plus 10 amnesties, all on time and all connected into one larger story.

That should be a clean sweep, I think.

Now I'm going to go die for a bit and not write anything for... ooh, at least a day. And I will go back through the comm and read all the entries I didn't read because I was too busy writing the damned things.

Of all my fics, I most like And Afterwards Remember/The Claws That Catch for writing quality. I enjoyed writing Left Shoe for Luck and Dashing Hopes for Our Deliverance most. And Lucky starred in With the Queen. This month has seen martians, cows, the Great War, The Second World War, Moriarty several times, tap-dancing Mycrofts, flu, pneumonia, broken legs, allergies, fire, bereavement, revenge, poetry, insanity, drugs, civil ceremonies, shouting, lots and lots of angst, and tea. Sherlock has died twice, John once, and we've been around Reichenbach four times.

God, it's been fun!

Fandom/’Verse: Holmes/Sherlock (BBC)
Challenge: watsons_woes July prompts challenge amnesty
Series: Rising Waters
Title: Part two: In Case of Emergency Please Call
Character: Mycroft
Length: Drabble
Rating: PG
Warnings: Series: character death
Author's Notes: Amnesty Prompt 1: Opening line

Disclaimer: The Holmes characters fall in the public domain: This version falls under the creative control of Messers Moffatt and Gatiss, and the BBC. No ownership is implied or inferred. This is done for love only.

Summary: Mycroft receives a rude awakening.

( Part 2: In Case of Emergency Please Call )

Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Title: Love That Is True Love (Youth of the Heart 1/4+epilogue)
Character/Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: c.1000 words
Rating: G
Spoilers: Reichenbach, non-specific
Warnings: n/a

Disclaimer: The Holmes characters fall in the public domain: This version falls under the creative control of Messers Moffatt and Gatiss, and the BBC. No ownership is implied or inferred. This is done for love only.

Summary: Sherlock returns after three years of being ‘dead’ thinking that he knows what he will find. He doesn’t have all the information... (Angsty).

Youth of the Heart
1: Love That is True Love
2: Never Be Sung
3: The Wisdom of Winter is Madness in May
4: Saved for My Darling
Epilogue: Will Not Fade Away

Crossposted to: 221b_slash, johnsherlock, dispatch_box, sherlockbbc, cox_and_co, watsons_woes
Master Fanfic List

AN: This is sort of a songfic in that I was describing Donald Swann’s The Youth Of the Heart to a friend and the fic idea sort of clicked into my head. I do recommend listening to the song which is on Flanders & Swann: At the Drop of Another Hat.


( Love That Is True Love )

Fandom/’Verse: Holmes/Sherlock BBC
Challenge: watsons_woes July prompts challenge
Title: Before A Fall
Character:John, Sherlock
Length: 221B
Rating: G
Spoilers: n/a
Warnings: n/a

Disclaimer: The Holmes characters fall in the public domain: This version falls under the creative control of Messers Moffatt and Gatiss, and the BBC. No ownership is implied or inferred. This is done for love only.

Summary: John follows Sherlock leaping tall buildings in a single bound, and regrets it.
AN: Slight departure in the actual quote but it has the spirit of it.

Master prompt post

July 30: "Is that __(item name)__ supposed to be _(doing that) ?"

( Before A Fall )

Fandom/’Verse: Holmes/Sherlock BBC
Challenge: watsons_woes July prompts challenge
Title: And Afterwards Remember
Character: Sherlock, John
Length: c.1000
Rating: PG
Spoilers: n/a
Warnings: Character death (offscreen, not one of the two featured characters); traumatic amnesia/confusion, refers to torture.

Disclaimer: The Holmes characters fall in the public domain: This version falls under the creative control of Messers Moffatt and Gatiss, and the BBC. Remember is by Christina Rossetti. No ownership is implied or inferred. This is done for love only.

Summary: At 4.30pm every day, Sherlock visits John.

Master prompt post

July 27: Poem.

( And Afterwards Remember )

Fandom/’Verse: Holmes/Sherlock BBC
Challenge: watsons_woes July prompts challenge
Title: "The Weather Will Become Very Windy..."*
Character: Sherlock, John
Length: c.500 words
Rating: PG
Spoilers: n/a
Warnings: Discussion of offscreen OC death

Disclaimer: The Holmes characters fall in the public domain: This version falls under the creative control of Messers Moffatt and Gatiss, and the BBC. No ownership is implied or inferred. This is done for love only.

*Fish, Michael (BBC Weather Service): 15 October 1987.

Summary: Storms in the Forest of Dean hit close to home for John.
AN: Written in a great big rush as I have a houseguest coming in a couple of hours and a very messy house. For the record there are odd reports from the last few years of white deer killed in the Forest havign the heads removed as trophies, it’s not just my sick mind.

Master prompt post

July 24: Seasonal Storms

( The Weather Will Become Very Windy... )

A Life Well-Lived
Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Author's info:
Sherlock/John
NC-17
~20 000 words

Summary: Written for this prompt on the sherlockbbc_fic kinkmeme: ‘John got scared off men by an abusive past relationship. Sherlock has to try and woo him while not scaring him off with protective possessive rage.’
Warnings: Mentions of a past relationship which, while not explicitly abusive, definitely skirts close to it. Please don’t read if this will upset you.

My ramblings:
Warnings: This is one of the few cases where I would use the label dub-con*

Reccer's comments:
You know me, I don't read abusive relationship fics most of the time. I have in the past and they almost invariably piss me off. This, however, is masterful. The summary intrigued me because it shows an awareness of the complicated nature of the beast, and I peeked in. The story is beautifully told, John having had an abusive relationship that put him off men and Sherlock helping him back on track and showing him how tender a relationship like that can be. But it's much better than it sounds! I know if I were reading this summary I'd think "great, dramatic flashback sequences and a wonderous night of magic sex." kate_lear absolutely does not do that. The story is slow and gentle, taking place over months not weeks, a lovely slow burn of healing and a very brave resolve not to be black and white, not to have big dramatic conversations with weeping and chivalrous posing from the healer; just a very quiet, understated, real life understanding that healing takes years, and understanding, ten, fifteen, twenty years down the line, may still not come. But you can live, and love, regardless of that.**

In short, you know I'd never rec a dub- or non-con fic unless I thought it was That Damn Good. This is. You know those times when a fic just gets it right? This is one of those.


*Anyone unlucky enough to have got into the discussion with me on the use of dub-con and non-con (and vs. other terms) in fic warnings knows how black and white my views of consent issues can be and my opinion that lots of people who say dub just use it because they don't want to shut people out by saying non. This fic really is a genuine case as the only information we have is recollections from the character who is not the POV focus for the story, and you end up weighing their perception with their reactions - you genuinely can't know. So I'm not breaking my rule by using it! :p

**This para is very rambly - the gin is purpling my prose slightly. But my points stand.