A Holmesian Solstice

Title: Grit on the Lens
Recipient: blueonblue
Author: marta_bee
Betas: All honor and praise to lindahoyland and sjames_centre
Characters/Pairings: Mycroft Holmes, Irene Adler, cameo by the Equerry and Anthea
Rating: Teen

Warnings:

1) There is implied sex, violence, moral greyness and general abuse of the criminal justice system in the story ahead. It's the BBC's Irene and Mycroft, after all and includes pretty much what you'd expect (though not in explicit detail).

2) While I hope this story is enjoyable for BBC-only fans, certain aspects will make more sense if you have a basic familiarity with "A Scandal in Bohemia." (Doyle /// Granada)

Word Count: 4,901 + Notes
Summary: To Mycroft Holmes she would always be the Woman. An attempt to nudge the BBC's version of Irene Adler in a direction more compatible with her Doyle self, and fix some of that episode's more troubling bits at the same time.

( Grit on the Lens )
( Story Notes )

Title: The Loose Thread

Recipient: hitlikehammers

Author: cherrytide

Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson. Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes, James Moriarty, Sebastian Moran, Holmes parents.

Rating: M

Warnings: References to suicide, drug use, injury, canon character death, magical realism, overly long fic, greek mythology.

Summary: When Sherlock is 6 years old he falls out of the tree, and finds at the bottom of it a little boy with grey skin and a worried expression. Sherlock is determined to solve the mystery of who he is and why he only appears when Sherlock is close to death. Not a crossover but heavily inspired by aspects of His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman.


Additional notes: Thanks to blue_eyed_1987 for beta!



( The Loose Thread, Part 1 )

Title: Inconvenient, Necessary
Recipient: huntingospray
Author: brighteyed_jill
Characters/Pairings: Mycroft/Lestrade, Sherlock/John
Rating: Teen
Warnings: mild violence
Summary: John hadn’t thought the challenge of reconciling a lovers’ quarrel would seem more daunting than escaping a mine cave-in, but then, his definition of a dire situation had shifted somewhat since Sherlock had come into his life.

( Inconvenient, Necessary )

Title: Measurable Steps
Author: scandalbaby
Recipient: dioscureantwins
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper
Characters: Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Anthea, John Watson, Greg Lestrade, Mrs. Hudson and a surprise character
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Someone is not happy Sherlock Holmes is still among the living, and they know Molly helped. When the mysterious M begins a new game for both Sherlock and Molly nothing is ever the same again, but maybe, in the end, things are better than before.
Authors Notes: Hi, dioscureantwins! I hope a word count north of 78K is long enough for you. I tried to hit as many of the things as you wanted in this story (aside from the unhappy ending...I just couldn't do it). It's an AU post-”Reichenbach” casefic with a lot of emotional hurt/comfort and a bit of angst, domestic scenes at 221B (among other places), bits of humor, jealous!Sherlock and virgin!Sherlock, bamf!John, scheming!Mycroft, Lestrade, Mrs. Hudson and there's even a scene with an experiment exploding. I hope you enjoy this more than the actual series 3. I had so much fun writing this and I really really hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it for you. Happy holidays!

( Measurable Steps, part 1 )

Title: Ginger Beer
Recipient: swissmarg
Author: ficklepig
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock/John
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 4998
Warnings: none
Notes: bivouack is always, always helpful
Summary: The best way out is always through.   (Started out as a sick!fic and mutated, as germs will do.)

( Ginger Beer )