The Strait of Juan de Fuca
Fandom: Sherlock
Author: mightypog
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: gave me the feels
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/647718
-Oh, my lovelies, if you read one fic today, make it this one. Post-Reichenbach, everything looks good on the surface, but Sherlock is struggling to reconnect to a John who's distanced himself from the world. To try and find him again, Sherlock takes them both to the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. The sense of scenery and mood is so incredibly present here (although being from the PNW I'm completely biased). Pulling them out of London and into some place as earthy and visceral as this really highlights the way that they're both struggling to create something new after Sherlock's absence.
Sherlock turns his attention to the screen. It's inane, nothing. It's a travel show. A camera pans over a rim of white mountains. They have the ragged sharpness of the teeth of sharks. A museum-curator voice is delivering a hushed monologue on British Columbia. Sherlock has always dreaded the idea of Canada. So undeveloped. So vast and natural and irrelevant. Unsorted. Sherlock has no use for it, no use for places like that.
John's face is as composed as ever. His eyes yield no clue. But they cling to the panorama.