The Great Game
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Mobile Phones, Rubble and Shock by prettybirdy979 for morganstuart
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
04 Feb 2011
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In the aftermath of the explosion, Lestrade must work to keep Sherlock Holmes alive and make sense of his communications... with only a mobile phone and Sherlock buried under the rubble of the pool.
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- Part 1 of Mobile Series
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Memories and regrets at the final moment of The Great Game.
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I can promise this is unlike any other solution you may have read for the finale.
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All that's left after The Great Game is traces.
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Drabbles set in a row after the events of The Great Game.
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- Part 7 of Drabbles of Deduction
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He's in shock. It's the only explanation for why, as he looks at John standing by the pool, Sherlock ignores the clues and concludes only that his friend was Moriarty all along. He's never been in shock before. But then, he's never had a friend before.
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After the night at the pool, Sherlock struggles between his need for John and his desire to keep John safe. And when Sherlock decides to protect John's heart from his own, John convinces him that their hearts are safer together than they are apart.
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For zolac_no_miko's prompt, If I'm never your hero I can never let you down, and centred around TGG, and Sherlock's "Don't make people into heroes, John, heroes don't exist; and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them."
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In ACD's The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Lestrade accompanies Mycroft to 221B to discuss the theft of the Bruce-Partington plans. In BBC!Sherlock, he doesn't. The reason why can now be revealed...
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When Jim leaves his number under the dish, Sherlock doesn't tell Molly. He calls. Perhaps John's lessons in kindness weren't such a good idea after all. NOT Sherlock/Molly. NOT Sherlock/Jim. Though there is a bit of one-sided creepiness going on there.
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One of the X5 Transgenics didn't just make it out of Manticore before the Pulse - he made it right out of the country. Originally written for a prompt on sherlockbbc-fic.
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The Case of the Vanishing Blog by Hekateras
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
03 Jan 2012
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Sherlock is in it for the hunt. John is in it for the action. Even so, the events at the Pool leave a mark on both, unwilling as they are to admit it.
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Moriarty begins to plot. Set around the time of The Great Game, but refers to events in The Reichenbach Fall. A 221b ficlet.
Warnings: linked violent and sexual imagery, fantasised dubious consent, fantasised murder.
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Sherlock has a secret friend (since long before he met John) who also prefers to text.
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- Part 1 of Short Message Service
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For Moriarty, the perfect aphrodisiac is the fear of death.
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Journalism AU. John is a former war reporter, newly returned from Afghanistan, who is assigned to work with Sherlock, a brilliant, but uncompromising photographer. When a routine assignment on the late Connie Prince turns into a solved murder case, however, they soon find themselves the targets of criminal mastermind, Jim Moriarty, who takes a dangerous interest in Sherlock.
Inspired by the part in "The Great Game" where John pretends to be a reporter, and Sherlock his photographer.
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Attempting to duplicate an experiment, without proper notes from the first experiment, is potentially dangerous.
Excerpt: They sat facing one another in front of the cold hearth. Sherlock's violin caterwauled.
Mycroft winced and saw Sherlock take note and smile. "Of course, you wouldn't want to do anything in the usual way, would you?
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- Part 3 of Other Experiments
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The experiment took a turn Sherlock had not expected.
Excerpt: John had done battle and triumphed. He just didn’t know it yet.
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- Part 14 of Other Experiments
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And that’s not right, is it? He shouldn’t be Sherlock’s blind spot.
Double drabble based on the last scene in The Great Game. 200 words exactly.
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Sherlock and John have their back against the wall while Moriarty currently holds the winning hand; and it would seem there he's making sure there's little chance of the pair surviving the encounter.
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Maintenance and Repair by patternofdefiance
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
13 Apr 2018
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John wants to explain the rush of sensation and data, which is just another form of sensation (or is it the other way around?). John wants to say:
Augmentation circuits report temperature, pressure, various forms of quantitative input. Sudden changes are reported as pain, since sudden changes are dangerous, and pain is the quickest way to encourage reflexive extraction.
But all John can manage is, “Nng.”
Because this sudden touch is not reporting as pain.
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- Part 2 of STATIC
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Bookmarked by Lapus_Lazulli
10 Apr 2014
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John Watson is left-handed.
He’s tried not to let it affect his life, but as any Lefty knows, that’s almost impossible.
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Sherlock has a secret friend (since long before he met John) who also prefers to text.
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- Part 1 of Short Message Service
Bookmarked by Lapus_Lazulli
02 Jun 2014
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Part 1 of the Short Message Service series
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John Watson is left-handed.
He’s tried not to let it affect his life, but as any Lefty knows, that’s almost impossible.
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John closes his eyes, his hand clenched into a tight fist against his belly and still trembling. For god's sake, Watson, he thinks. Maybe a dog would be better this than you are. Better at living.
Written for the sherlockbbc-fic kink meme prompt: "John deals with his nightmares and PTSD every day. But sometimes it gets to be too much for him, and he retreats into himself and pretends he's a dog."
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He's in shock. It's the only explanation for why, as he looks at John standing by the pool, Sherlock ignores the clues and concludes only that his friend was Moriarty all along. He's never been in shock before. But then, he's never had a friend before.
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Sherlock lives alone at 221B, with only Mrs. Hudson and his ever-meddlesome brother to watch over him. But he doesn't care; he has his work. And his art. And that's all that matters.
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They are a supernova, spiralling through the sky, faster than sound and light and time all together. They are a comet, alone together as they sprint through the universe. They are a black hole, collapsing and imploding and destroying but so, so beautiful.
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After the night at the pool, Sherlock struggles between his need for John and his desire to keep John safe. And when Sherlock decides to protect John's heart from his own, John convinces him that their hearts are safer together than they are apart.
Bookmarked by A_Fuckin_Nerd
14 May 2019
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so fucking good. I lost sleep to this fic
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Events after 'The Great Game' leave Sherlock dependent on his best friend and colleague. But John has a secret of his own...
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He wakes and sleeps and works and none of it matters at all. AU to the end of The Great Game, The Final Problem & The Empty House.