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After not hearing from John for months after his daughter was born, Sherlock starts receiving hand-written letters from him telling Sherlock about his day, asking him how he's been doing, asking him for help...it's the last bit that gets them both in to a bit of a bind.
"John likes to start his letters with “Dear Friend”, but Sherlock can’t bring himself to use the term in return. It feels like John has been his only true friend throughout his entire life, and John knows that already.
And if John will not allow him to sign his letters, he decides that he will end them all the same from here on out.
When you’re ready to stop being an idiot…
When you’re ready to stop fighting this stupid battle of who could care less…
When you’re ready to let me help you…
When you’re ready to be done sneaking around…
When you’re ready to speak to me properly again…
When you’re ready to come home…He says all of these and more with three simple words: “When you’re ready…” that, in the end, roughly translate to “I’m here. I’m waiting. Come home.”"
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26 Dec 2025
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Happiness Is With You by AndThenThereWereWords
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
15 Sep 2022
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John is hoping to revisit a conversation he and Sherlock had at Angelo’s in the early days of their friendship, to confirm his suspicions that Sherlock feels for him the way he feels for Sherlock. However, in his obliviousness, Sherlock disappoints him and and causes John to look elsewhere for romance. But as soon as there is another man in the picture, Sherlock cannot handle his emotions.
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- Part 1 of RelationWIP
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25 Dec 2025
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Some people have a black mark on them which means they have a soulmate out there somewhere. That mark is where you first touch your soulmate. When Sherlock first meets John, he notes that John has black finger tips on his right hand. Sherlock knows that he has no black marks having searched when he was younger. He invites John to share a flat with him even though he knows one day John will find his soulmate and leave Sherlock. But then Moriarty happens and Sherlock is forced to leave by way of faking his own death. He will never forget the way John yelled while he lie there in a pool of fake blood.
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23 Nov 2025
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All flatmates need to work out domestic matters between them - who does the dishes, who takes out the rubbish, how often does the carpet need to be vacuumed - these are part and parcel of sharing a living space together.
However, when you’re an elf and your flatmate is going to be a human you just met, this rather complicates things…
Very loosely inspired by 'The Elves and The Shoemaker' by The Brothers Grimm.
ARTWORK by marinette-edhel
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- Part 3 of OLTAB AU fics
- Part 12 of OLTAB angst with happy ending fics
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15 Nov 2025
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John once said that if Sherlock ever felt the need to use drugs, he could call him. Sherlock never imagined he’d actually do it—until Victor Trevor’s years-too-late funeral leaves him reeling. For the first time, Sherlock reaches out, and John is there to help him navigate the memories, cravings, and emotions he can no longer ignore. In the aftermath, Sherlock begins to realize that asking for help might be the first step toward something he never thought possible: A future built on connection, trust, and love.
Post Season 4. Only the barest fleeting mention of Rosie.
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- Part 3 of OLTAB angst with happy ending fics
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11 Nov 2025
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"Which child minder?" Sherlock asks with an air of suspicion. "Not the same one you used last Tuesday, I hope. Rosamund doesn't like that insufferable woman, and who could blame her? Imagine, thinking someone of Watson's intellect would be duped by cheap parlour tricks and tomfoolery."
"... Sherlock, it's peek-a-boo. Everybody plays peek-a-boo with babies."
After moving back into 221B with Rosie, John discovers that Sherlock has been hiding a chronic health condition caused by John's attack on him in the morgue. Together they navigate the fallout, becoming a family in the process.
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11 Nov 2025
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It all rushes back in a shimmering instant: the tether, the tension. The sense of ease, that steady pull of connection. It’s only them—nothing’s changed. Or everything has. (and god, either way—)
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06 Nov 2025
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Sting by stopthat for Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
09 Oct 2025
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A solitary creature. Harmless to humans unless provoked.
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19 Oct 2025
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John watches Sherlock from afar, like a stranger.
These days, of course, that's exactly what he is.-
This fic is a Fandom Trumps Hate 2022 work for my lovely reader, BCMF_fan ❤️
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24 Sep 2025
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Unconventional Decor by coloredink
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
16 Mar 2011
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Sherlock makes a list of all the things in his room that might be causing John to not want to sleep there. It is very long. (Chinese, Korean, and Russian translations available.)
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22 Sep 2025
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What Sherlock and John wrote to each other during the Hiatus.
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15 Sep 2025
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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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14 Sep 2025
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The thing you wanted to say. Say it now.
What do you do when you can't go back? Do you hold on? Or do you let go?Series
- Part 1 of Nothing Gold
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16 Jun 2025
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After Mary is deported after it turns out she was never pregnant, John moves back to Baker Street. All should be well. Sherlock is solving crimes, the milk no longer tries to kill him, and John is where he is supposed to be. So why does everything still feel wrong?
A biting comment from Donovan sparks an inconvenient thought that just won't be silenced - what if he doesn't know himself as well as he should? What if a deeper understanding could make things feel right? As Sherlock stumbles through diagnosis, therapy, and the shocking realization that he might actually want to feel better, the people around him begin to notice - some sooner than others.
Complete! Chapters all posted at once. Now with beautiful cover art by wordsandpics, thank you so much!
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- Part 8 of OLTAB neurodiversity fics
- Part 16 of OLTAB fluffy fics
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13 Jun 2025
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After leaving John's wedding early, Sherlock scores and makes a public spectacle of himself. His unexpected rescuer is Sally Donovan. In exchange, she has terms.
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07 Jun 2025
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Of Sweat, Sociopathy, Scars, and Secrets by LoloLolly
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
16 Sep 2021
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John approaches Sherlock with a theory. Much more is revealed than he anticipated. And Sherlock, well... he had been waiting for this. Inevitable.
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“I couldn’t accept guilt I was not supposed to have felt. It would weaken me. But this process was shoddily completed in my young mind, I suppose. I was silent for days. Weeks, maybe. Barely aware of my surroundings. Reprogramming, perhaps, before I ever had a mind palace. After, all I knew was that I felt upset. That I was missing pieces. Mycroft’s Redbeard story sufficed to explain it. It wasn’t instant, my self-imposed sociopathy. I struggled. I suffered. Mycroft helped mold me. I discovered drugs. Honed my skills. Found an outlet that allowed me to atone for unknown past failures, to fill the void inside of me that continued to expand. Made it more and more impossible for anyone to like me. To truly understand me. For that, John, would have been the largest threat to my hollow façade.”
“You destroyed yourself,” John stated.
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- Part 2 of Earthly Pomp (Is But a Dream)
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08 May 2025
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After Sherlock risks his life again, something snaps in John, and he walks away in an act of self-preservation. He leaves 221B and Sherlock behind to start a new life. It does not go well.
Sherlock realizes that this time, John is not coming back, and he is alone again. He tries to cope in an act of self-preservation. It does not go well.
How much harder is it to live for someone than to die for them?
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- Part 1 of OLTAB angst with happy ending fics
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28 Apr 2025
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It has been a week.
One week since he’d returned from the hospital, one week since he had decided to put that godawful case out of his mind, one week since he’d begun avoiding taking another.
___Sherlock isn't himself anymore. He insists he's fine, that he doesn't need help, that nothing happened.
Unfortunately, ordinary people can be more perceptive than he thinks.
__title from a fall out boy song of the same name.
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24 Apr 2025
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It was a bad morning and a bad day for John. It had been raining non-stop for a week already and his shoulder and leg were flaring up. It was especially bad today, because they also had a case, although that was hopefully reaching its end today too.
But not how you would think.
Whumptober 2023 prompt No. 7: ”I paced around for hours on empty; I jumped at the slightest of sounds.”
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- Part 6 of Blossom's Whumptober 2023
- Part 5 of Blossom's Sherlock fics
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21 Apr 2025
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"I should’ve thrown you out on your ass the moment you set foot in this apartment. I don't care that you’re the only reason I live here. I hate you and everything about you, you selfish jerk. I'd rather live on the street than have to look at you every day. I don’t care about your pathetic excuses that you had no other choice. There's always another way. Fuck off, Sherlock," he said, looking him in the eyes, and the detective felt his heart shatter into million pieces.
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Sherlock rises from the grave after two years and is definitely not greeted in the way he expected. John doesn’t want to talk to him at all, Lestrade tells him things he never would’ve imagined, and Mrs Hudson tries to defuse the situation with raspberry tea and sweet biscuits.Bookmarked by itzmi
20 Apr 2025