A Preference for Texting - LostGirl - Sherlock (TV. Unlocking Sherlock - Chapter 3 - IronicNarwhal - Sherlock (TV. Chapter Text John starts reading up on things, things he's never bothered to fret about before.
His Google search history becomes a mess of the same five searches, worded ten different ways each. Bonding for Soul Mates. How to connect to your Soul Mate. How to make your Soul Mate feel more comfortable. Unsurprisingly, the queries don't turn up much useable information. He goes through periods of complete aversion to physical contact. Another constant worry at the back of his mind is his continued sleeping problems. Maybe that's why he's so disconcerted. Despite his continued worries, things are comfortable.
Sometimes Sherlock stands up and declares that the bacteria needs to incubate for a few hours then walks off, showers, and comes back in much the same outfit, only damp. Cuddling, really, is the only word for it. One of the work mornings, he treads through the kitchen, pulling on his jacket, and blindly reaches into the bowl, only to find one ring sitting in the bottom. "I do! " "Yes. ...The Hooker Certainly Might - camerasparring - Sherlock (TV. The Curious Incident of the Cat in the Nighttime - hyacinth_sky747 - Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (TV. Where the Poppies Blow - songlin - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. Of scars and other demons, a sherlock fanfic. When it happens for the first time, John is frantic with worry, and fails to notice anything strange (or stranger than Sherlock himself, whose strangeness satisfies the need of anything strange in the three-mile radius).
There had been another case, a chase and a villain and a struggle in the dead of the night, and his infuriating friend has received a crushing blow to the small of his back with a baseball bat. John knows he should be grateful that there was apparently no severe damage to the spine. Man of Reason(s) - whitefang3927 - Sherlock (TV. Sherlock Holmes knows that kissing John Watson would be a bad idea.
We solve crimes.... - Title: The Velveteen Doctor Author: lantean_drift Pairing: Sherlock/John Rating: Adult but not graphic.
Word count: 13,000 Summary: A series of events that show John just how real he has become to Sherlock – like a bright, brilliant flash of colour in an otherwise greyscale world. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. Betas: The awesome bluespirit_star who not only beta’ed but was a fabulous cheerleader when I needed it. Disclaimer: So not mine, they belong to ACD and the Beeb. Notes: This story grew from the idea that perhaps Sherlock sees the world in flashes of colour and that the people who are ‘real’ to him – Mycroft, Lestrade, Mrs Hudson - all register against the black and white of his surroundings.
Tianostra who sat with me in my back garden all those weeks ago, enjoying the last of the summer sunshine during an unforgettable weekend of Crew, giggles, Champagne and Sherlock. Then there was John himself. Delightful, Morally Dubious - peevee - Sherlock (TV. My Ward - ViviSovari - Sherlock (TV. Sherlock advanced on John, circling him until he had him backed against the wall of the bedroom turned crime scene.
His mind was clouded, the scent of blood strong, so strong, here. The two victims had been cut and bled dry, the accumulated stench of blood and decay was heady and Sherlock's pupils had dilated nearly upon entering the room. Lestrade had warned them that it would be graphic on the phone, had advised them to use any extra precautions they could take. J. B. Rhine Was Kind of a Dick - Chapter 1 - CharleyFoxtrot - Sherlock (TV. Purring and other Strange Responses to receiving a Bullet Wound - flamethrower - Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. He may not have known he liked it until he met someone so... receptive.
Responsive. Granted, he didn't think he was in a position to learn anything at the moment. In Which John is Attractive and Sherlock is Angry - kim47 - Sherlock (TV. The first time it happens, Sherlock brushes it off as unimportant; an anomaly, an aberration, something strange but unlikely to be repeated.
Lestrade is standing fractionally closer to John than is normal. They're on the other side of the room, talking quietly, and Sherlock is busy examining the woman lying dead under the window, but you don't become the world's only consulting detective without being able to multitask. One track of his mind is busy taking in all the relevant information (expensive coat but worn shoes, dark brown hair with slight grey roots, no handbag or phone), while another is wondering why, exactly, it is necessary for Lestrade to touch John's arm quite so frequently.
He stands up, deductions complete, and rattles them off to Lestrade slightly faster than normal. "... so you probably want to find the daughter-in-law," he concludes. John pushes himself off the wall, and follows Sherlock out of the room. The second time is not so subtle. "Ready to go then? " A Word Not Even Sherlock Could Pronounce. - nom_omnis_moriar - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. April 8th 2010 Sherlock had come across it quite by accident.
That wasn’t to say he hadn’t been looking for it, but he found what he had been looking for in a rather peculiar place. It had begun on one not so interesting day in April with a rather interesting case. Well John says it was, and Sherlock says in retrospect it wasn’tbut John was just thankful that it had stopped the Consulting detective from lying upside down in his chair and throwing various matters into the fire and singeing his curls.
Either way, a boy was currently in intensive care recovering from arsenic poisoning and Sherlock was sat cross legged on the floor of said boy’s bedroom, flicking through his collection of The Guinness Book of Records, donned in some rather lovely pink rubber gloves with an equally lovely feather fringe that John had found under the kitchen sink. It worked perfectly. Oh. An exasperated sigh that came from the bedroom confirmed his suspicious. Talk Dirty to Me - round_robin - Sherlock (TV. I've Shown You Everything; Give Me A Sign - jesshelga - Sherlock (TV.