Word count: 16,605
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/OMCs
Characters: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Depressed John, Drug Addict Sherlock, Slut Sherlock, Anonymous Sex, Chemsex, Angst, Disability, Drugs, Dubious Consent, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Condoms, Group Sex, Self-Destruction, Loneliness, Falling In Love
Summary:
John never learned how to do this here, in sordid London, where every bloke lines up in a queue of ads and everyone has someone else every night.
Rec: Wow, this was not at all what I expected going into it. Given the premise of an alternate Johnlock meeting with lots of promiscuous, anonymous sex and the general gist of the tags, I thought this was going to be a fun and filthy good time had by all. And while that’s true up to a certain point, it doesn’t even begin to get at what is really going on.
I don’t want to ruin the experience for other readers by giving away too much about the progression of this story but I do want to give both fair warning and hope. The warning: take the dubcon tag seriously. This goes to some very dark places. The hope: don’t give up when things look their bleakest. A commenter on the fic noted that this is basically a love story in reverse, which I found to be a very astute insight. The ending is absolutely worth the price of admission, steep as it is.