A Holmesian Solstice

Title: Re Solution
Recipient: rabidsamfan
Author: capt_facepalm
Verse: The Seven Percent Solution
Characters/Pairings: Dr John Watson, Mrs Martha Freud, others mentioned
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 525
Warnings: Oblique reference to drug use
Summary: Dr Sigmund Freud is not the only Freud who can treat a troubled mind
Author's Note: The author is not very familiar with this verse. Liberties have been taken. #BetaWhatBeta
( Vienna, 1891 )

Title: It Happened One Christmas
Recipient: kinkajou
Author: swissmarg
Beta reader: frodosweetstuff
Verse: BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: Sherlock's parents think he and John are a couple. They might be onto something.


( It Happened One Christmas )

Title: Chances Are
Recipient: snarryfool
Author: opaljade
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: John/Sherlock
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: John is a widower

Summary: In the end, it’s all up to Sherlock to take a gamble and make the first move.

Author’s Note: Dear snarryfool, you asked for a ‘caseficcy romance/ romantic casefic’ John/Sherlock story with a happy ending . This is what I came up with. I hope you like it!

A special thank you to billiethepoet for the super quick beta and the helpful suggestions. Your help was much appreciated.

Also on AO3: Chances Are

( Chances Are, part 1 )

Title: The Countdowns Series
Recipient: rodlox
Author: scandalbaby
Verse: Elementary/Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Joan Watson/Sally Donovan, BBC!Greg Lestrade, Marcus Bell & Elementary!Sherlock Holmes
Rating: PG
Warnings: Some language
Summary: This is a world in which most people have a timer on their wrist to count down until they meet their soul mate. Both Joan and Sally, however, have rather given up hope of meeting theirs, until a cross jurisdictional case lands them smack in each others path.
Authr's Notes: Hi, rodlox! Thank you for allowing me to try something a little different than what you asked for in your sign-up. When I saw you didn't mind allowing Sally Donovan in your fic, I had to ask if I could write my pet ship of Joan Watson/Sally Donovan, and I was so happy you said yes! I was originally going to do one long story, but due to RL issues I ended up writing you a series. It focuses mostly on the beginning of the Joan/Sally relationship, and it revolves around a case (and I made sure everyone was civil to everyone else, except to INTERPOL people) and if you like it I have plans of continuing it after Holmestice. It's also a soulmate AU, based on an idea from silentpeaches on Tumblr ("It’s been a busy week and after finally having some time to yourself, you just happened to look at your soulmate clock and see that it’s already at 00:00:00:00 and you don’t know when that happened because you don’t religiously check your clock either"). The series is going to continue after this, BTW, with mentions of other ships and stuff, but this is the start of it.


One thing: it's set after what I know of season 4 of Elementary and what's rumored to be in series 4 of Sherlock (just the vague "ending" feeling) so there's mentions of both Holmes/Moriarty and Holmes/Fiona as well as oblique but not spoilery series 4 stuff for Sherlock.


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Title: The Kidnapping of Arthur Daniel Ruskin
Recipient: rabidsamfan
Author: capt_facepalm
Verse: ACD Canon
Characters/Pairings: Mr Sherlock Holmes, Dr John Watson, others mentioned
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Children in peril
Summary: An early case fic involving the kidnapping of children

( The Kidnapping of Arthur Daniel Ruskin )

Title: When the Applause Dies
Recipient: colebaltblue
Author: phoenixfalls
Verse: Elementary, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (BBC Radio)
Characters/Pairings: Joan Watson/Gloria Wilson, Joan Watson/Gina Cortes
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Summary: A burglar called The Ghost specializes in impossible burglaries -- taking items of great value from locked and guarded rooms, without setting off any alarms or leaving any physical trace. Sherlock tried and failed to capture The Ghost once; now Joan is on the case.



Also on AO3: When the Applause Dies


( When the Applause Dies )

Title: To a British Soldier
Recipient: ellipsical
Author: Emily Nicaoidh (apismel1fera.tumblr.com; emily_nicaoidh on ao3)
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: T+ (for mild gore)
Warnings: mild gore
Summary: Deployed in Afghanistan, in the winter of 2016 John Watson receives a christmas card written by a child addressed "to a British Soldier."

The letter was sent in 1992.


( To a British Soldier )

Title: A Freak Adventure
Recipient: destntoast
Author: dioscureantwins
Characters: Sally Donovan, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mrs Hudson, OC’s
Rating: Gen
Warnings: No warnings apply.
Beta: The amazing ukaunz was so kind as to help me. Any misspellings, grammar mistakes or offences against the British language are entirely my own.


Summary: Oh Christ, the Freak will be like a dog with two tails if she turns to him for assistance. Sally can feel her hands curling into fists ready to punch the condescending smirk off his face as she glares at the lift panel, willing the lift to go faster.


Happy Holmestice, destntoast. You were very kind and generous with your request, providing me with lots of ideas for possible stories. In the end I settled upon the combination of a casefic and the POV from one of the series’ minor characters. I do hope you’ll enjoy!




( A Freak Adventure, part 1 )

Title: The Fire Inside
Recipient: sherlollyfan119
Author: xfdryad
Verse: BBC
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Mary Morstan
Rating: NC17, AU
Warnings: none
Summary: A night like no other.
NOTE: Slight spoilers for Madame Bovary.


( The Fire Inside )