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JOHNLOCK - THE EARLY YEARS

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There is simply no way to list EVERY single fabulous work written in the early years of the Sherlock fandom but here’s a hit or miss list of things I enjoyed …

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The Blog of
Eugenia Watson by Mad_Lori,
95 k, gen. John and Sherlock are an adorable old married couple raising John’s
teen-aged daughter along with his ex-wife who lives in the flat next door.
Stellar characters, plot, and romance.

The Great
Sex Olympics of 221B by
XistentialAngst, 58 k, explicit. John and Sherlock have a bet on who knows more
about sex and devise a contest with people they find online willing to play.
PWP. Truly one of the hottest things ever written.  

Faithful
Compass series by KeelieThompson1 (4 works) Uni!lock.
Sherlock meets a younger John while he is still in college. We get to see the
two mature together through John’s drinking and troubled home life, and
Sherlock’s drug use and shady dealings. Lots of angst and violence, great plot
and characters and smut. Some great new characters appear as John’s flatmates,
particularly Andrew Harrison. Thumbs up.

The First
and Last Trilogy by Phyona. A night at the pub with drinking games
leads to John waking up in Sherlock’s bed wondering WTF happened. A fever leads
to some sweet sick!fic and hot times in bed. A trip together helps them cement
this budding relationship.

The Paradox series
by Wordstrings. Sherlock POV. Crazy!lock. A crawl through Sherlock’s odd
brain as he and John connect. BDSM, blood sharing, kink and all kinds of
crazy.  Dream sharing. Brilliant and
bizarre. Sweet in the creepiest of ways. What is sane, what is real, what is
love? This turns it all inside out in the most profound of ways. Wow.

The Road
Trip series by
stupid_drawings. Crack!fic –
absolutely LMFAO, ROTF stuff. Sherlock and John go on a road trip to solve a
crime with Lestrade, then others of the police force. The last fic ends with
some pretty heavy angst but I just pretend that “what to do when your flatmate
is homicidal” is a sequel.

What to do
When Your Flatmate is Homicidal by
hyacinth_sky747, 58 k, explicit. This work is divine silliness. Through a
stream of consciousness from Sherlock ostensibly writing in a diary, we see the
lives of John and Sherlock as they build a relationship together amidst the
insanity that is John and Sherlock.  This
work is sweet, weird, sexy, adorable and addictive with lots of fluff, but
beware the bit of angst slipped in.

The Progress
of Sherlock Holmes by
ivyblossom, 62 k, explicit. Sherlock POV well done. Sherlock and John fumble,
and John leaves to marry Mary though Sherlock knows she will cheat. John and Mary
settle on a rocky, open relationship, and slowly John and Sherlock find their
way back together. Feels so in character with love, sex, and angst, angst,
angst.

Electric
Pink Hand Grenade by
BeautifulFiction, 67 k, explicit. Sherlock suffers cluster headaches that lead
to synesthesia, and John nurses him through it. Snuggles ensue.

Cooperative
Principle by bendingsignpost, 56 k,
explicit. Slight AU.  A very angsty,
mind-fuckery courtship between John, a teacher at St. Barts, and the elusive,
cunning consulting detective who wants him. Some porn, and lots of angst. Did I
mention angst?

The Road
Less Traveled by
verityburns, 56 k, mature.  Mycroft
inspires Sherlock to start Project Retention - make John fall in love with
Sherlock so he doesn’t marry some stupid woman and move away. Much angst, but
fluff and smut too. Very sweet.

Northwest
Passage by Kryptaria, 95 k, explicit.  AU – John is retired from the Canadian army
living in an isolated homestead.  An old
military connection, Mycroft Holmes, calls in a favor. He must house his
younger brother Sherlock while he detoxes from drugs. BAMF!John, PTSD, hunting,
flirting and sex – oh my.

There’s A
First Time For Everything by
kate_lear, 21 k, explicit.  Wonderful background info on John and
Sherlock’s past as they negotiate a casual sexual relationship and tiptoe
toward a committed one. Hurtfic and violence, romance and porn. Has a 3
Garridebs moment as John bleeds in an alley. This is a GOOD one!

Maybe series by mildredandbobbin – 3 parts. Almost
heartbreaking angst. Post Reichenbach.
Sherlock at large checks in with Molly and hears that John’s pregnant
wife Mary died in a car accident six months earlier. Sherlock realizes John is
not okay, and decides to return. It’s very believable as they pick up the
pieces and build a beautiful life together. (locked to AO3 users)

The Cold
Song Series (6
parts) by Eldritchhorrors. Edgy,
BDSM, drug use, scary, amazing. Casefic. Much is explained about Sherlock when
we find out his childhood was shattered by a serial killer taking a family
member. Now, the killer is striking again, and Sherlock must deal with things
long locked away to solve the case. Sherlock only accesses his emotions through
music, but a BDSM relationship with John that is moving from sex into love is
healing Sherlock in ways he can’t comprehend. Philosophy, Buddhism, knife play,
opera as metaphor – a heady mix of crazy and sublime.

The Bang and
The Clatter by
earlgreytea68, 137 k, mature. Delightful AU with John and Sherlock as baseball
players. Sherlock is a hot young pitcher, and John is an old catcher on his
last year before retirement when they find themselves together on a new team.
Some plot, great character development, romance.

Ease Your
Way into Occupied Spaces by
joolabee, 11k , explicit. Prescient version of series 3 posted before the
series aired. An angsty, pining, infidelity fic that is beautiful in its pain.
Told from Sherlock’s POV.

Against the
Rest of the World by
SilentAuror, 151 k, explicit. Sherlock escapes a cell in Turkey to return to
London before he manages to destroy all of Moriarty’s network. John is engaged,
but choses to come with him to complete the mission. Pre-relationship to
relationship. Feels like a spy novel, achingly romantic.

Lacuna by coloredink, 15 k, explicit. Lacuna means a
blank spot or missing piece. John is back in 221B after an accident that leaves
him with amnesia. He and Sherlock deepen their relationship, as John struggles
to regain his memory from Before.

Imagines
Morti series (2
parts) by SwissMiss. Set in a
magical AU in which people’s life experiences spontaneously appear as tattoos
on their skin. John and Sherlock grow to know each other until Sherlock must
fake his death via Reichenbach.

Beauty
Shot by Mazarin221b, 4 k, explicit.
Sally discovers some of Sherlock’s old modeling pictures - including the ad he
did for Calvin Klein back in the 90s. John recognizes that ad, oh, does he
ever.

The Speed of Objects
in Motion by holyfant, 48 k word, explicit. This story
is an exquisite multi-year sweeping epic drama of John and Sherlock getting
together, breaking up, but always orbiting each other in all that they do. So
well written, with tons of angst, but light at the end of the tunnel. SO MUCH
ANGST.

Nothing
to Make a Song About by emmagrant01, 36 k, explicit. When Sherlock
returned from his faked death, John could not forgive him for the deception and
broke off their friendship. Ten years later, John returns to London in search
of yet another new beginning. Sherlock, not surprisingly, is waiting.

Oh wow, thank you so much for the rec! I saw this pass by on my dash several times but never actually noticed that one of my fics was included here. It’s so flattering to be included with all these greats!

What a great theme. I joined the Sherlock fandom after these were written, so it’s like receiving a boxed set of the classics. I’ve read almost all of them, and look forward to reading the rest. Thank you @alexxphoenix42, your lists continue to amaze and delight!

Thanks for the rec! I love all of these.