Self-repost series time! I kind of forgot about this, ha! For...

Self-repost series time! I kind of forgot about this, ha! For tonight’s story, I’m bringing back The Yellow Poppies! This is a series 3 fix-it fic I wrote in response to the multiple requests I got at the time begging me to write something on the topic of the deleted scene of Magnussen’s hospital visit, which had just come out. The scene repulsed me, and as I watched it over and over again, thinking about what I wanted to write about it, it occurred to me that Magnussen’s “visit” was really an assault. Sherlock was highly medicated and incapacitated, and this man touched him non-consensually and threatened him. And then it occurred to me that it wasn’t even the first time that Sherlock had been threatened while in the hospital, highly medicated and unable to defend himself. 

In a fun, yet wholly unrelated bit of trivia, this story is also one of my ongoing theme of (unrelated) stories that draw from Victorian flower meanings. Others in this non-series include The Green Carnations, The White Lotuses, The Red Roses, Rosa Felicia, and The Wisteria Tree. It might almost be time for another one at some point. :) Anyway! If you haven’t read this one and you feel like giving it a try, I hope you like it! If you’ve read it before and feel like reading it again, I hope you like it again (if you did the first time!). :P 

Title: The Yellow Poppies

Author: SilentAuror

Pairing/genre: Sherlock/John (POV: Sherlock), hurt/comfort, romance, fix-it

Length: 35,000 words (yes, exactly!!)

Summary: Sherlock is threatened and assaulted in the hospital immediately after having been shot in the heart, first by Mary, then by Magnussen. As he recovers at Baker Street with John and plans the attack on Appledore with Mycroft, he fights to work through the trauma caused by these two visits. Set during His Last Vow.

Warnings: Possible triggers for assault/trauma survivors.