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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 8,533 Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Additional Tags: Getting Together, Miscommunication, Post-Season/Series 01, takes place after Moriarty before Irene Adler, don't think too hard about the timeline please, it doesn't hold up to scrutiny, Mild Angst, Hopeful Ending Summary:

“It could be easily argued that I know you better than anyone else does. I am currently the only person you talk to on a regular basis, including your family, and I think you have come to understand me quite well in turn, which is more than can be said for most people.”

John stared at him. He wasn’t laughing. He didn’t look like he was expecting John to laugh.

“That’s your argument?” he said.

“You must admit that-“

“I’ve been dating people!” he snapped. “Women, Sherlock!”

John finds out that Sherlock has assumed for a while that their relationship was romantic, and feels like maybe he should have been notified about that.

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Quickrec:  It’s always tricky to write about these two exposing their emotions to each other, but I thought this one did a good job.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 4527 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Rosamund Mary "Rosie" Watson Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Love Confession, First Kiss, Parentlock, life with a toddler, seriously like ALL the fluff, One of these days I'll write a story with a plot again, today is not that day, Post Season 4, My Canon Ends With The Six Thatchers Summary:

What does it mean to be brave? Or: Sherlock and John spend New Year's Day with a grumpy toddler and have a long overdue conversation.

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Quickrec: Utterly divine, a perfect snapshot of post-series 4 healing and love.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 7,685 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson Additional Tags: Friends With Benefits, sorta - Freeform, Pining, Angst, Jealousy, all of quill's favourite tropes in one place, Again, Love Confessions, Sherlock is oblivious, This is 7k of plotlessness and filth, Love Letters Summary: John will just wank to his flatmate’s hipbones like any self respecting, red blooded British male. He will not think about about having Sherlock over the dining table, fucking him so hard he scrabbles at the wood and knocks over all the chemistry equipment. He won’t think about what Sherlock sounds like when he’s coming. 

He certainly won’t think about kissing Sherlock’s eyelids when he falls asleep on the sofa, television still tuned in to some documentary about the Bubonic plague.

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Quickrec: So deliciously angsty and dysfunctional, lack of communication ahoy! I love this writing style, stripped-down and cynical while packed with understated big-time feels to make the absolute most of those 7K.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 5,347 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mummy (Sherlock), Siger Holmes Additional Tags: POV Alternating, Family Feels, Light Angst, Fluff, Post-Reichenbach, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, John is a Saint, Sherlock is a Brat, Idiots in Love, Soft John Watson, Soft Sherlock Holmes, Friendship/Love, Friends to Lovers, First Kiss, Cuddling & Snuggling, Meeting the Parents, Feelings Realization, Warm and Fuzzy Feelings Summary:

A few weeks after Sherlock's return, he drags John to his childhood home in Yorkshire. There's just something about the place.

It says a lot about how Sherlock views their relationship, he supposes, that he’s brought him here—or it would, if it were anyone else.

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Quickrec: Quickly run and read this! Slightly AU post-Reichenbach, in which there is no Mary and John never moved on or out. Just a lovely, natural slide into better versions of themselves and each other.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 9,896 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Detective inspector Hopkins, Brackenstall, Theresa Wright Additional Tags: The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Domestic Violence, Forgiveness, Complete, POV John Watson, POV Sherlock Holmes Summary:

Set post Season 4, this is an update to ACD's "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange." John is questioning his relationship with Sherlock and wrestling with his own demons.

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Quickrec: If you’re looking for a tidy casefic / series 4 fixit, check out this number. No actual Johnlock romance, but things are moving in that direction as the author says this is the first in what is meant to be a series. Rating probably is for mature themes (domestic violence, drug use).

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 8,614 Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mummy (Sherlock), Sebastian Wilkes, Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Vignette, Music, Missing Scene, Drug Use, Rehabilitation, Classical Music, Synesthesia, Pining, Friends to Lovers, Love Confessions, First Kiss Summary:

A series of vignettes about Sherlock Holmes's lifelong relationship with his violin.

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Quickrec: How does this manage to pack so much into such an unassuming package? A life’s journey through the entire spectrum of human emotion, arriving finally at the destination of the heart’s desire. This somehow languished in my to-read pile for months; don’t make the same mistake!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 5,004 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Original Characters, Original Non-Human Character(s) Additional Tags: Case Fic, Wolves, Psychic Wolves, Attempted Murder, Suicide, Poisoning, Minor Character Death, Original Character Death(s), Investigations, Egypt, Holmes and Watson in Egypt, Not Beta Read Summary:

Descended from an extinct line of wolf-bonded warriors, Holmes makes a friend (and solves a case) in Egypt.

Holmes/Watson. Case fic.

For Lupercalia 2022 and Storyworks February 2022 Friendship challenge.

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Quickrec: A very neat little story that packs a whole lot more into its modest word count than I’d expected: a fascinating premise, a faithfully rendered exotic yet canon-appropriate setting, a lovely portrait of a partnership, and a juicy denouement.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 8,375 Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sarah Sawyer, Jeanette (Sherlock), Harry Watson Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, 5+1 Things, Romance, Humor, Light Angst, Drinking, John Watson is a Terrible Boyfriend, Coincidences, Community: holmestice, Don't copy to another site Summary:

John doesn't know Sherlock. Sherlock doesn't know John. The universe is not so easily dissuaded.

Or, five times Sherlock interrupted John's plans, and one time John interrupted his.

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Quickrec: Wonderfully fun, action-packed alternative meeting AU.