Unlocking Sherlock - Chapter 1 - IronicNarwhal - Sherlock (TV. Chapter Text Chinese beer has an odd aftertaste.
He's not sure he really likes it, but he keeps on swigging because after the day he's had, something non-alcoholic just won't do. Sherlock apparently shares his sentiment; he keeps frowning at the bottle but, like John, resolutely takes sip after sip. Braving the strange flavor. Honestly, John didn't have Sherlock pinned as much of a drinker in the first place, and certainly not a beerdrinker. It's still odd, having a face to put to the title of Soul Mate. When he was a teenager, hormones took over and the image in his mind's eye became someone more like the celebrities he idolized. In the army, sometimes the only thing that kept him going was the thought that somewhere, back in England, there was a man named Sherlock, with his name on his finger.
Oddly enough, he's never gotten quite the combination of Sherlock Holmes. Every time he looks at him, he can't help but smile a bit. "Did you know that you think very loudly? " "Do I? " Ginger with a Chance of Freckles - Chapter 1 - wellingtonboots - Sherlock (TV), Cabin Pressure. Chapter Text When Sherringford decided to change his name to Martin Crieff, Lady Salisbury was devastated. Her Ladyship, known affectionately as Mummy to her beloved sons, had chosen all their names herself. “I love my name mother,” he had said hesitantly, “but I just don’t want to live with the burden of being Sherringford Holmes anymore.”
When Sherringford declared he did not want a penny of the trust fund Robert Holmes, the Marquise of Salisbury, had laid aside for his youngest son, his Lordship had difficulty keeping his eyebrows still. “I can earn my own way in the world,” stuttered Sherringford, “you’ll see,” Inscriptions - IronicNarwhal - Sherlock. Talented People With Interesting Skillsets - CharleyFoxtrot, MurphysScribe, the Girl in 221C (naienko), thecookiemomma - Sherlock.
Triune - Chapter 1 - Lindentreeisle (Captainblue) - Sherlock (TV), Fledgling - Octavia E. Butler. Alternate and Missing Scenes from "A Cure for Boredom" - Chapter 1 - emmagrant01 - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. Fairy Tale of Regent's Park - Basingstoke - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. Better than Destiny - Chapter 7 - shinychimera, Yeomanrand - Sherlock. Chapter Text Obviously lost in his memories of the Carl Powers case, gripping the pink phone and the trainers in their evidence bag, Sherlock hurries lightly up the stairs without looking back.
John, relieved to be out of his line-of-sight for just a moment, to not have to worry about Sherlock's relentless awareness, grips the stair railing hard to steady his pounding head. Not that it matters. When he reaches the landing, Sherlock is already bent over the laptop at the kitchen table and sending his first search results to the printer. He doesn't even glance at John. "Go and take a Solpadeine. " John takes a breath but — no, never mind, at the moment he really doesn't care how Sherlock knows. He shakes himself, opens the bottle, shakes a pill into his hand and downs it before he can get any farther lost in thought.
Sherlock keeps surprising him, for good and ill. John finishes off the glass of water and heads back downstairs. There's a tight ache in his throat; he swallows it back. Making The Connection - Chapter 1 - JessamyGriffith - Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (TV. Given In Evidence - Chapter 1 - verityburns - Sherlock (TV. Westmoreland - Chapter 6 - JessamyGriffith - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms.
The Cold Song - Eldritchhorrors - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. Somewhat Shady - Eldritchhorrors - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. Chapter 1: Years later John would say this was a meet-cute...and Sherlock would tell him to shut up.
Chapter Text “To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.” ― Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book “Nothing ever happens to me.” He really should have tacked on the most important bit. John had woken up again, expecting to see the spray of arterial blood sinking into sand, smell the overwhelming sulphur of spent shells, but what he woke to was infinitely worse. Shitty little bedsit.
And that was the fuck of it all. Every time. He’d been reading a book in Afghanistan. Irony was a bitch goddess in that way. That line haunted him. So he sat in the flat and held his gun and honestly didn’t really consider suicide. John realized what he was considering and blanched. “Bugger this.” John stood up, feeling like he’d come to a decision even though his brain wasn’t sharing.
John should fit right in. “Gin. “I’m Sam.” Overclocked - Chapter 1 - abundantlyqueer - Sherlock (TV. Family, Genus, Species - Chapter 2 - abundantlyqueer - Sherlock. Chapter Text Windsor and Eton Riverside railway station is a little jewel of Victorian redbrick and white stone Gothic arches, with tubs of daffodils blowing merrily in the sunshiny breeze.
John looks around with undisguised pleasure as he walks out of the station with his olive canvas duffel bag on his shoulder. It’s not his service duffel but, as he explained to Sherlock, you can’t beat army-surplus for capacity at the price. His bag is only lightly filled, though; apart from a teasing should I bring an evening dress, do you think? , he accomplished his packing in under ten minutes and with no evidence of uncertainty or apprehension. “What do you think about a taxi, then?”
“Thomas will have sent a car,” Sherlock says as he glances at his wristwatch, “but the train got in early so – oh for God’s sake.” A dark green Range Rover with a silver registration number on a black plate glides to a stop directly in front of them. “I’m not – you don’t – there’s no - ” he fumbles. “Tea,” he says. Pillars of Fire - tripodion - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. The Sorites Paradox - Chapter 1 - tripodion - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. The Demon In My View - Chapter 1 - tripodion - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms.
Chapter Text At night, he still thought of it.
He still thought of the blood and sweat and tears that belonged to John; all those things like a dying star that he wanted to steal away from him and swallow so it would burst inside him and leave John whole like he used to be. But he couldn't. He was unable to. So he watched John burn. It felt like it was raining, raining all the time, even when he could feel the sun shining. Always Miss Something - Chapter 26 - Random_Nexus - Sherlock (TV. When The Impossible Refuses To Be Eliminated - Chapter 80 - Random_Nexus - Sherlock (TV. Half And Half - Chapter 3 - Random_Nexus - Sherlock (TV. This Place I've Called Home - Chapter 1 - dorothydonne - Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling. Darkling, I Listen - Chapter 1 - You_Light_The_Sky - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. Chapter Text “The fog is coming!”
One of the soldiers scream. But his cry is drowned out by the cacophony of gunfire, lines of explosions just sounding off in the air, scattering dust and sand in every direction. He can hardly see anything beyond his own hands, struggling to stitch up a bloody tear in his comrade’s side. Blood is spilling from the wound, deep and almost as dark as black, onto his fingers and over his clothes. Focus, Watson, focus. But he can feel the sudden dip in the air, as the harsh desert heat sinks into a rare night chill. “Fog is coming!” But John refuses to leave. “John, we need to leave,” Murray is saying. “Wait, my patient...” “It’s too late for him, just run, John!” Murray grabs his arm, jerks him away from the patient. “Just one more moment—” He tells Murray. But the soldier is shouting, “We don’t have another bloody moment!”
John closes his eyes, places a hand on his patient’s jagged wound and concentrates, tunes out all other distractions. “Everyone duck!” Invisible Bonds - Chapter 18 - mamishka - Sherlock (TV), BBC Sherlock - Fandom. Chapter Text Pain. That’s what registers first. A terrible, throbbing pain in his temple that seems to radiate across his skull in a hard pulsing rhythm. The doctor within him catalogs the injury methodically - head trauma, bleeding laceration, loss of consciousness, probable concussion.
The second thing that registers is the cold and the damp. John’s eyes open slowly. Special Delivery - Chapter 1 - lavvyan - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Garden Spells (Sarah Addison Allen. Chapter Text When John was seven years old, his dad took them on a weekend trip to London.
John packed and repacked and rerepacked his bag at least half a dozen times, running through the house in search of things he needed to add until his dad picked him up, swung him around and told him to restrict himself to the bare essentials, young man, and by that I don't mean your wellies. "But it might rain! " John protested. Here Be Dragons - Chapter 1 - Winter_of_our_Discontent - Sherlock (TV), Arthurian Mythology & Adaptations - All Media Types, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. Chapter Text For the most part, Sherlock could tolerate the twenty-first century. Of course, people didn’t change that much, even over centuries, but there were always going on now, and he was entirely fond of cell phones and the internet.
They certainly would have improved the eighteenth century, which he’d found to be essentially a write-off. Now if Arthur would get off his metaphysical arse and finally .... the waiting was hard, and had only gotten the slightest bit easier by sheer dint of practice. He’d given up watching the royal family back in the nineteenth century.... kings no longer needed to be all that Arthur had been, and he’d have been bored to tears being just a figurehead. Which meant that for the most part, he’d have to rely on Arthur finding , or in Arthur doing something so obvious Sherlock would finally be able to locate him.
Powerful, Beautiful and Without Regret - songlin - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. The Seven-Day Virgin - keelywolfe - Sherlock (TV. The Good Morrow - greywash - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. Defence Mechanisms - roane - Sherlock (TV. Bodies - Ishmael - Sherlock. There Was A Boy - Chapter 1 - dramatisecho - Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms. Chapter Text “Darling, I want you to listen to me…” Hamish peered up curiously at his mother - who was actually crying. He’d never seen that before. She normally kept her face as brave as possible, wise and collected, but he could see the internal uncertainty and fear lingering in her now-glossy orbs.
“Stay hidden. Hamish bit his lip nervously. “Darling, do you understand?” Hesitantly, he nodded. “Good boy.” She quickly ushered him into her massive walk-in closet. Hamish plopped down to sit on the floor after only a few minutes of waiting. Footsteps. Door opening. Raised voices. A calmer conversation. His mother’s voice. A man’s. A gunshot. Everything went quiet. He waited. Lying down on the floor, the boy tried in vain to peer underneath in the hopes of seeing whether or not it was clear to come out. All was still. A body. Trembling, Hamish crept out of the closet and hesitatingly inched toward the familiar form of his mother. It wasn’t a good feeling. He didn’t try to be brave now. “No.”