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Sherlock is home, he and John are returning to cases, and all's right with the world--right? But a series of minor mishaps and injuries makes two things very clear to his friends and family: first, Sherlock's time away wasn't the grand adventure everyone has assumed it was; and second, that time has left Sherlock with a legacy that's bleeding into his life today. Sherlock is Not Okay, and it's not going away.
EDIT: I have now made this part of a series, since I am going to be doing occasional one-offs in this same universe.
WORKS INSPIRED BY THIS ONE: The lovely Aunt_Didi has begun a podfic of this work--it can be found on both of our dashboards.
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- Part 1 of Scheherezade 'verse
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- English
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- 197,579
- Chapters:
- 45/45
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- 2
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- 1,199
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21 May 2026
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A Long Walk Down a Dusty Road by sgam76 for KathyG
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
15 Dec 2019
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John Watson has survived bad parents, war, tragedy and Sherlock Holmes. He's damaged, and freely admits it--admits that, often, his coping mechanisms have been almost as bad as the things that made them necessary. Some of it is his own fault--but some of it isn't. And some of it makes John dangerous, to his friends and to himself.
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- Part 7 of Scheherezade 'verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 143,091
- Chapters:
- 49/49
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 1,902
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- 478
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- 91
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- 22,178
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21 May 2026
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El ensordecedor ruido del silencio by lockedin221B for NovaWasTaken1
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
25 Jun 2021
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-A veces no hablo durante días. ¿Eso te molestaría?
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21 May 2026
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John becomes guardian of an old friend's autistic son, and learns something about Sherlock's diagnosis along the way.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 60,142
- Chapters:
- 14/14
- Comments:
- 249
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- 4,716
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- 1,127
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- 107,741
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21 May 2026
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A Thrill Failed To Deliver by J_Baillier
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
01 Jan 2025
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When The Work is replaced with chemotherapy and restaurant dinners with radiation treatment, will a new, devastating normal bring John and Sherlock closer, or drive them apart — as Sherlock seems convinced it will?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 189,741
- Chapters:
- 32/32
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- 1,982
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- 1,055
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- 163
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- 36,358
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21 May 2026
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Messages From Deep Waters by J_Baillier
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
01 Apr 2021
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They say that people who settle in such isolated, wild places cradled and battered by the sea are exceptionally at peace with themselves or running away from something. Sherlock certainly knows which one applies to him, but what about his reclusive neighbour John Watson?
- Language:
- English
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- 56,469
- Chapters:
- 24/24
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- 1,372
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- 969
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- 181
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- 23,936
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21 May 2026
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Sherlock Holmes has been dead for forty months, and John is at last beginning to live his life again. But just when he believes he might be happy, his world crashes back down around him.
John is named a missing person. Someone is pointing DI Lestrade in the wrong direction. And as the days pass, his situation only grows more dire. It seems like the disappearance of his best friend is the only thing that can bring Sherlock Holmes back from the dead.
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- Part 1 of The Fallen
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 137,243
- Chapters:
- 31/31
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- 1,317
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13 May 2026
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Simon, a music teacher and choir director at a public high school in Seattle finds unexpected company in Wilhelm, a new substitute teacher from Sweden. The two Swedes bond over their shared culture while embracing life in the Pacific Northwest. Will this unexpected friendship evolve into something more?
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- English
- Words:
- 108,816
- Chapters:
- 48/48
- Comments:
- 293
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- 268
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- 48
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- 12,437
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04 Nov 2025
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Sherlock tours worldwide with the English National Ballet. John dances the Lindy Hop competitively all across the globe. That they would meet, then, by the slimmest of chances in one lonely city, is pure coincidence. The whole 'dancing together' bit is a little more planned. Dancer!AU.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 64,272
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 738
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- 1,916
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- 886
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- 48,481
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01 Nov 2025
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As long as it takes by PlainJane
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
24 Jun 2012
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Anything Sherlock wants. All night. No strings attached.
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- Part 1 of John Watson's way
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,866
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Comments:
- 440
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- 3,433
- Bookmarks:
- 816
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- 96,188
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01 Nov 2025
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John is happily married, but after some vague fantasies he has started questioning his sexuality. In his search for answers, he is helped by an old friend from medical school, who introduces him to the work of the unusual actor H. Sherwood.
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- Part 1 of Sherwood
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01 Nov 2025
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Unable but desperate to find a dom who will put up with him, Sherlock swallows his pride and turns to Mycroft for help. Shortly after, John Watson steps into Sherlock's life.
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- English
- Words:
- 51,919
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 655
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- 7,837
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- 2,234
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- 192,242
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01 Nov 2025
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"Tucked here between towering shelves stuffed full of hundreds of years of knowledge on tens of thousands of pages filled with hundreds of thousands of words made up of millions of individual letters –Sherlock Holmes fits."
There are so few places Sherlock feels at ease, but this library feels like home. He likes the solitude, takes comfort in the quiet. He may not have friends, but he's got books--and that's just as good, isn't it? Better, even.
And then one day John Watson walks in, and everything changes...
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 170,564
- Chapters:
- 19/21
- Comments:
- 1,976
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- 1,899
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- 612
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- 58,593
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26 Oct 2025
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The lottery exists to allow poor and struggling families to place their children in the care of wealthy patrons, who will provide for them until they come of age.
When medical bills leave the Watson family in trouble, seventeen-year-old John is assigned to the care of Sherlock Holmes, a man unlike anyone John has ever encountered.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 67,845
- Chapters:
- 14/14
- Comments:
- 284
- Kudos:
- 618
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- 160
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- 18,114
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26 Oct 2025
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Everyone on earth is born with eyes that see in black, white, and an endless series of greys.
When you meet your soulmate, you finally see the world in color.
We're all searching for the person who brings color to our lives.
John and Sherlock are no exception.
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- Part 1 of The Colors 'Verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 140,537
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 1,369
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- 5,127
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- 1,886
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- 150,145
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26 Oct 2025
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Sherlock Holmes and Martha Hudson, friendship, love and romance:
He kissed her cheek again and his lips lingered for a fraction of a second longer than normal. “Good-night, Mrs Hudson.”
She sat back on the sofa when he’d gone and touched her hand to her cheek, just like a giddy girl.
There are things that you don’t wish for, things that you don’t ever let yourself think about. Not even when you’re dying, least of all then when the cruel mirror shows you how old and ill you are. Youth is just an illusion, a flutter of butterfly wings in your soul, and there’s no point crying for the moon.
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26 Oct 2025
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Low Road - n. Behaviour or practice that is deceitful or immoral.
The last thing Sherlock remembers is shooting up in his university room in Cambridge. Now he's miles away, in the middle of nowhere, trapped with a man who wants to have sex with him. Where is he? What's going on? And more importantly, who the hell is John Watson?
The game is on.
But what happens when the other player seems to know you better than you know yourself?
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- Part 1 of The Low Road
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 57,327
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 369
- Kudos:
- 647
- Bookmarks:
- 172
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- 10,216
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26 Oct 2025
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The Musgrave Mystery by Lilith (Citrine)
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
30 Dec 2013
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A dead butler, an old manor house, things that go bump in the night and a Sherlock/John romance:
For an instant Sherlock regretted that they had a train to catch, but maybe it was better that they did, safer certainly. These evenings with John were never entirely relaxing. He always had to be one step ahead, to read every flicker of expression or gesture. The causal press of hips and shoulders as they sprawled amidst a chaos of papers, maps, mobile phones and cushions seemed to pass unnoticed. A slice of pizza lifted from John’s hand produced a scowl and a half-hearted rebuke. If he had attempted to lick away the sauce that clung in tomato smears to John’s knuckles and the corner of his mouth the reaction would have been explosive though.
Outrage. Apprehension. Even embarrassment. Sherlock could imagine it all in dreary detail. John didn’t. John wasn’t.
Not gay.
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26 Oct 2025
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Teaching John to observe seems to be a losing battle, but when Sherlock falls ill and submits himself to John's care, will he realise that there is more to life than the science of deduction? Meanwhile, there is a murder to solve, and John must try and convince Sherlock not to sacrifice his own health for the sake of the case. Eventual John/Sherlock Hurt/Comfort case fic. Post the Great Game
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- English
- Words:
- 128,654
- Chapters:
- 19/19
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 1,108
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- 7,309
- Bookmarks:
- 2,356
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- 263,526
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25 Oct 2025
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“This was like nothing John had ever thought to associate with Sherlock: stubble, skin-tight jeans and three small silver rings gleaming at the crest of one ear. It was unbelievable, like stepping into an alternative universe, and John couldn't stop staring.”
When Sherlock infiltrates a club in order to track down a serial killer, his altered appearance is enough to make John question his assumption that Sherlock is beyond his reach. However, is he the only one who appreciates his flatmate's charms, or is Sherlock at risk of becoming the next victim? (Warning: reviews may contain fic spoilers)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 151,907
- Chapters:
- 19/19
- Collections:
- 16
- Comments:
- 2,637
- Kudos:
- 9,341
- Bookmarks:
- 3,568
- Hits:
- 328,987
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25 Oct 2025