acdholmesfest | Entries tagged with fic

Title: Douillet
Recipient: Our pinch-hitter for this round:

methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,118
Characters: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Warnings: Happy retirement-era husbands, fluff.
Summary: The cold is getting to Watson.
Author's Notes: The title comes from a French word that means "cozy, soft, and warm". Your actions in springing to the rescue certainly have made us all more comfortable. Thank you, and we hope this suits!

( I contemplated getting up from my nest of blankets on the sofa to add more fuel to the fire. )

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Title: Riddle Me This, Mr Holmes
Recipient:

mistyzeo
Author: [redacted]
Beta: [redacted]
Rating: G
Word Count: 1990-ish
Characters: Watson, Holmes, Wiggins
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Warnings: Nah
Summary: Watson has, to Holmes’s entirely reasonable dismay, left London to visit a newly discovered cousin.
Author's Notes: Set in a nebulous Holmes/Watson time. Additional notes to come on the AO3 following reveals.

( Calm and rationality have ever been my watchwords... )

methylviolet10b

Title: He’s Not Here
Recipient:

smallhobbit
Author:

saki101
Rating: PG
Warnings: consideration of the apparent death of Holmes at the Reichenbach Fall, canon typical mention of off-stage death of minor characters
Summary: Holmes learns more about how Watson felt after the Reichenbach Fall, and what Watson did about it.
Disclaimer: Public domain (at least all the ACD story elements referenced herein)

( It’s a pleasure to write this down now. )

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Title: Found Family
Recipient:

hippocrates460
Author: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters, including any pairing(s): Watson/Holmes, Mrs. Hudson
Warnings: no warnings
Labels: domestic fluff, food as a love language, family, romantic but not erotic
Summary: Sometimes family is a landlady that teaches you to cook and a consulting detective that only takes a few decades to figure out how to speak your love language.
Disclaimer: it's a good thing Doyle wasn't a dentist or he'd have to treat everyone for cavities for reading this.

( It had become John Watson's habit to take Sunday dinner at the large table that dominated Mrs. Hudson's kitchen... )

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Title: Snapping Point
Recipient:

spacemutineer
Author: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters, including any pairing(s): Holmes/Watson
Warnings: off-screen violence, heavy angst
Summary: Holmes has been avoiding this particular conversation for over a year now. Established relationship, Holmes' POV

( As my train left St Pancras for Derbyshire, I had mixed feelings about my upcoming reunion with Watson. )

methylviolet10b

Title: Masterpiece
Recipient:

capt_facepalm
Author:

capt_facepalm - and Happy April Fools Day to all!
Beta: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters: Holmes and Watson and Lestrade (and Mrs Hudson cameo)
Summary: A rambling casefic featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Warning: History, art history, architecture and generous creative license
Bonus Warnings: Not British; not Brit-picked; not even close; written in a huge rush
Word Count: 9000 - go pour yourself a drink

( It was a dark and stormy night but that was usually the case in London... )

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Title: Vocation
Recipient:

ghostbees
Author: [redacted]
Beta thanks to: [redacted]
Rating: G
Characters: Holmes/Watson, established relationship
Word count: ~4900 words
Summary: "But where are we going, Holmes?"
Note: Historical tidbits galore, as requested. A few facts have been stretched to breaking point but none actually invented. If you think you recognise a name or a place – you do.

( "But where are we going, Holmes?" )

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Title: Love as fearful torment
Recipient:

saintdionysus
Author: [redacted]
Rating: NC-17 (M for Ao3)
Characters, including any pairing(s): Holmes/Watson
Warnings: Mentions of sexual content
Summary: "It begins – as it often has between Dr Watson and myself – with a visit to the opera." Holmes and Watson see Wagner's Parsifal, which sparks a conversation that leads to a tradition. As they get to know themselves and each other better, Parsifal remains the same pure fool, fulfilling in each version of his story his destination of reuniting the Holy Spear and Holy Grail.
Author's note: behind the cut

( It begins — as it often has between Dr Watson and myself — with a visit to the opera. )

methylviolet10b

Title: All Night Long
Recipient:

garonne
Author:

gardnerhill
Rating: NC-17 (explicitly M/M)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Warnings: Brief description of torture. Explicit sexual content (NOT at the same time)
Word Count: 4444
Summary: An ordeal at the hands of an enemy; a celebration in the hands of a lover. Some things are worth surviving, and worth surviving for.
Disclaimer: Fun fact: This year "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" entered public domain. Release the hounds.

( It is half-two, deep into the night, and John is awake and more than awake. )

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Title: Simplicity Itself
Recipient:

saki101
Author: [redacted]
Beta: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters, including any pairing(s): Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Warnings: none
Summary: Holmes found a house in Sussex, but he needs to make sure Watson approves before buying it.

( One Friday afternoon in July of 1896, I was resting at home... )

methylviolet10b

Title: The Case of the Disappearing Husband
Recipient:

the_last_day_of_winter
Author:

smallhobbit
Rating: G
Characters, including any pairing(s): Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Warnings: No warning apply
Summary: A missing husband, an abundance of newspapers, and Holmes in disguise. Clearly Watson is about to become involved in a case.
Disclaimer: A few details Watson failed to include in his stories, but nothing else to surprise a reader of the Strand magazine.

( One morning I had woken somewhat later than usual... )

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Title: The Taste of Truth
Recipient:

colebaltblue
Author: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, past John Watson/Mary Morstan, Mrs Hudson, Prof. Moriarty
Warnings: None
Word Count: 25,500
Summary: Two and a half years after Reichenbach Falls, John Watson discovers the magical tree that caused Holmes to fake his death.
Disclaimer: Holmes and Watson live in the public domain; the Lie Tree belongs to Frances Hardinge.

( I must apologise to my readers for the lies I practised upon them... )

methylviolet10b

Title: The Reigate Revival
Recipient:

mightymads
Author:

mistyzeo
Rating: Explicit/NC17
Characters, including any pairing(s): Holmes/Watson
Warnings: None.
Summary: After the conclusion of the matter of "The Reigate Squires," Holmes and Watson find time to reconnect.
Disclaimer: I do what I want.

( Given that my friend Colonel Hayter’s establishment was, as I have said, a bachelor one... )

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Title: To Cast Light on Each
Recipient:

tweedisgood
Author: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters, including any pairing(s): established Holmes/Watson, developing Eugenia Ronder/Elsie Cubitt
Warnings: This is a fix-it for “The Veiled Lodger” and a follow-up to “The Dancing Men.” As such, it references the plots of both stories and includes references to suicidal inclinations, a past suicide attempt, past domestic abuse, as well as non-graphic descriptions of physical disfigurement
Summary: Holmes and Watson are determined to offer Eugenia Ronder more than a sermon.
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the opening poetic quotation is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s. The concluding song was released in 1901 by Arthur F. Tate and Eileen Newton.

( The stifling, anguished atmosphere of the veiled lodger's lonely room followed us back to Baker Street. )

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Title: Camelot
Recipient:

smallhobbit
Author: [redacted]
Beta: [redacted]
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 6300
Characters: Watson, Holmes, a plethora of original characters
Warnings: Potential triggers for dementia and elder abuse; mild violence
Summary: Holmes and Watson encounter a client like no other: the ultimate unreliable witness.
Author's Notes: The time setting is early post-hiatus; Watson POV

( It was early in October of 1896 and the days were getting shorter... )

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Title: The Violin of Toten Hall
Recipient:

saki101
Author: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters, including any pairing(s): Holmes, Watson
Warnings: None
Summary: Holmes and Watson are on a case of strange music in the night.
Disclaimer: All is thanks to Arthur Conan Doyle and his delightful creations.

( Rarely during my long friendship with Sherlock Holmes... )

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Title: Right Hand Man
Recipient:

gardnerhill
Author: [redacted]
Rating: PG for injury
Characters: Holmes, Watson
Warnings: Body modification, steampunk science.
Summary: Sherlock Holmes had uncovered most of my secrets within a month of our sharing digs, but he did not necessarily apply himself to teasing out the details of each one. He knew I had been in Afghanistan, that I had been injured, and the nature of my injury, but it was several years until he truly saw the extent of the reconstruction that had been done on my body.
Notes: This is very weird and experimental, so consider it as a piece of a larger puzzle!

( Sherlock Holmes had uncovered most of my secrets within a month of our sharing digs... )

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Title: Rewriting History
Recipient:

methylviolet10b
Author: [redacted]
Rating: PG
Characters, including any pairing(s): Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, past John Watson/Mary Morstan, mentions of Mycroft Holmes and the Forrester family (from The Sign of Four)
Warnings: Discussion of depression and concern about the possibility of self-harm (no one is harmed in the course of the fic)
Length: 10,000 words
Summary: A correspondence between Holmes and Watson in the immediate aftermath of the Great War in which they discuss questions of history both public and personal.
Author’s note: Here are a few terms that might need defining: “Tommies” = British infantry soldiers; “CCS” = Casualty Clearing Station, the WWI version of field hospitals; “pozzy” = jam preserves.

( My dear Holmes... )

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Title: Number 94
Recipient:

tripleransom
Author: [redacted]
Characters: H/W
Wordcount: ~ 7200
Rating: M for thoughts rather than actions, of which I regret there are none of the sort that ratings are attached to. I leave that to your imagination.
Beta Thanks: with love, as ever, to [redacted].

( Appearances deceive. That is, one might say, their chief function. )

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Title: The Adventure of the Devil’s Snare
Recipient:

sanspatronymic
Author: [redacted]
Rating: Teen/PG-13
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, John Openshaw; mentions of Mary Watson and Mrs Hudson
Relationships: John Watson/Mary Watson (at the time of the case); Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (unspecified later time)
Warnings: References to atrocities committed in the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras; canon-typical violence; canon references; Victorian-era racial terminology and attitudes; a more-or-less verbatim quote from The Five Orange Pips reworked into the story as a ‘resource’
Summary: “Of all the mixture of half-truths, gross oversimplifications, and farrago of lies I have sent him over the years, the Adventure of the Five Orange Pips stands out as one of the most extraordinary taradiddles that ever masqueraded as a truthful account.”
Word Count: 7,625
Author’s Notes: As you might guess from the above, The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips never made sense to me as written. I’ve taken your prompt of “a fondness for 'deleted scene' type works (ie, something that would fit nicely into a hole left in a canon story)” as inspiration and…well, pretty thoroughly rewritten the entire thing. I hope it pleases you!
Special thanks to: [redacted] for the beta
Disclaimer: The original story and characters belong to Doyle; all mistakes are my own.

( Doctor Doyle – my editor and publisher, insofar as he takes public credit as the ‘author’ for my work … )