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Back in January of 2012, shortly after the airing of Series 2, I wrote a series of short character studies on an assortment of characters from Sherlock.

In the case of many of these, my opinion has shifted, refined, and changed in a variety ways. In the case of some, I still bear the same opinion, but well...the show became what it became.

In either case, rather than crosspost these posts yet again, I'm going to collect them here with their original post dates, the Tumblr link, and the Wordpress link, in case anyone wants to read them, though again, they're not great, and one in particular is like....I would reword like 99% of what I was trying to say.

Anyway, here they are:

Irene Adler [originally posted 3 January 2012]; Tumblr link; Wordpress link
John Watson [originally posted 4 January 2012]; Tumblr link; Wordpress link
Molly Hooper [originally posted 6 January 2012]; Tumblr link; Wordpress link
Mycroft Holmes [originally posted 13 January 2012]; Tumblr link; Wordpress link

There had been ones in the works for Sherlock Holmes, Jim Moriarty, Greg Lestrade, and Mrs. Hudson, but they ended up not happening in part due to some rather...alarming things going on in my life. Also an honours thesis I needed to revise and cast. C'est la vie.

Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes
Word Count: 472

General Summary: Upon reuniting with each other after Sherlock's 3 year disappearance, the Holmes brothers find themselves unusually speechless.

Author’s Note: A short piece I wrote in July 2012. Loosely inspired by the song "Jet Lag" by Frank Turner.

It had been almost three years.

Raising tired eyes, Mycroft Holmes observed his brother quietly, refusing - for once - to break the silence first. Across from him, Sherlock Holmes did much the same thing.

Three years.

The three years on the run had taken a surprising toll on the detective.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: T
Setting: Twisted Sinews universe
Characters: Molly Hooper, Jim Moriarty
Primary Pairings: Molly Hooper/Jim Moriarty
Word Count: 481

General Summary: Molly has always suspected that there was something not quite right about Jim, but she never could put her finger on it.

Author’s Note: Another Molly/Moriarty piece? In my July 2012 archive? It's more likely than you think. Anyway, like almost all of my Jim/Molly stuff, it holds up. At least to me.

Molly wasn’t sure that she liked the way Jim looked at her sometimes. It often happened without warning, this shift in his mood, and they would be doing something completely ordinary, like eating dinner, when Molly would catch the strange man with whom she had entangled herself examining her in the same way that she remembered seeing hawks eye prey animals in nature documentaries. The first several times it happened, it had been unnerving, but eventually she had learned to return the gaze.

Still, there was something about Jim.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G
Setting: Twisted Sinews universe
Characters: Sebastian Moran, Jim Moriarty
Word Count: 344

General Summary: At some point or another, Sebastian Moran realises that Jim Moriarty is a terrifying man, but not for the reasons that everyone thinks he is.

Author’s Note: This was just a little piece I wrote about Moriarty from Moran's perspective in July 2012. I'm not as good at writing him as Seb (my mate, not Moran) was.

Jim Moriarty was a terrifying man, Sebastian Moran realised one day.

Not because of anything specific he did. He wasn’t physically intimidating either - for god’s sake, the man was well under six feet in height and of a slender build. He could have been a schoolteacher.

If he weren’t so much like a shark that had learned to wear human skin.

No, the horror that was Jim Moriarty came from the little things, he had learned.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe, Pre-Canon
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes
Word Count: 1146

General Summary: Even at thirteen, Sherlock has the ability to draw Mycroft back to the Holmes estate from school at the drop of a hat, and what Mycroft finds often worries him.

Author’s Note: This was another commission piece, written 8 April 2012.

If it were not for Sherlock, Mycroft Holmes thought to himself as he leaned against the window, I doubt I would ever come back. Certainly not at the drop of a hat like this. But there he was, on the train, watching the scenery roll by in a series of lazy hills as he sped towards the Holmes estate. It had been nearly three in the morning when he had received the call from Eliza – his brother’s Latin tutor and Mycroft’s most reliable pair of eyes and ears in the household.

Her panicked voice across the line, broken by short sobs and whimpers in between words – “Sherlock!...the new maid…oh dear heavens…please do come!” – was all it took to bring Mycroft running back to the old Holmes manor; to Sherlock and, he could not suppress a shudder at the thought, their mother.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G-T
Setting: The Grit in the Lens universe/series
Characters: Sebastian Moran, Jim Moriarty
Word Count: 1432

General Summary: The trouble with playing favourites, Jim long ago acknowledged, is that sometimes even they fuck up.

An alternate point-of-view companion piece to TheGhostofEurope's "Too Much to Swallow."

Author’s Note: The Grit in the Lens universe was begun as a dual story-telling project in which my friend Seb, who started the project, wrote from the point of view of Sebastian, and I from the point of view of Jim. The general idea of this project being to examine the flawed (or not-so-flawed) ways in which each character views the other. I confess to having been the weak link and only having written this one piece because I'm a piece of shit basically. Anyway, this was written 6 March 2012.

On the way back to the hotel, I cracked the passenger side window, the tang of coastal Argentina mingling with the sourly metallic odour of rapidly clotting blood. The smell persisted as we crossed the hotel lobby; Sebastian was already light-headed and struggling to keep up with my pace as I hurried into the nearest elevator before the sight and scent of crusted blood could be detected by bystanders. Once inside, Sebastian slumped against the wall as the numbers slowly ticked off towards our floor.

Ground
1
2
3
4

The doors slid open, and hounded by Sebastian’s increasingly shuffling footsteps, I made the journey down the hall and into the room, slipping inside before locking it securely again.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G-T (ymmv)
Characters: Jim Moriarty, John Watson
Primary Pairings: Implied Jim Moriarty/John Watson
Word Count: 168

General Summary: John Watson has tried very hard not to think about the events from the night that he first came face to face with Jim Moriarty, but a single backwards glance was all it took to undo months of self-deception.

Author’s Note: lmao this is 100% self-indulgent fun from February 2012.

One backwards glance.

That’s all it takes.

Just one backwards glance and the casual batting of an eyelid.

A wink that no one sees.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G
Characters: Sally Donovan, Greg Lestrade, John Watson, the Scotland Yard gang
Word Count: 488

General Summary: Hours after the death of Sherlock Holmes, Sally Donovan has time to think.

Author’s Note: This was just a little piece I wrote after the airing of Series 2 back in January 2012.

A heavy silence weighed over the section of the bar claimed years ago by Scotland Yard, and no one, if seemed, dared to speak or even move unless Gregory Lestrade did so first. But the detective inspector did neither of these and so neither did they.

Sally Donovan stared into her glass and tried not to think, but all the same, a thought drifted to the surface.

Sherlock Holmes is dead.

Sherlock Holmes is dead. Head cracked on the pavement in front of St. Bart’s, cold on a morgue slab. Dead. Gone.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G
Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper
Word Count: 406

General Summary: It's been a week since Sherlock Holmes was buried in a closed casket funeral, and Molly Hooper would like him to just get a bit of rest before leaving the country.

Author’s Note: 1Just a short piece I wrote in January 2012 after series two aired in the UK.

“Those will kill you, you know.” Molly watched from her end of the sofa as Sherlock Holmes lit a cigarette and took a long, needy drag. ”I thought you quit.”

“Don’t make jokes Molly.” Sherlock exhaled appreciatively and gave her a dead-eyed stare, then reproachfully, “I can’t have any cases. I’m bored.”

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: M
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade
Primary Pairings: Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
Word Count: 2407

General Summary: Mycroft had only planned to go out hunting; taking a lover was certainly not on his agenda.

Author’s Note: This piece was written for my collaborator after we had discussion about something we thought Mycroft did when he was bored as a young man at university. It was originally posted to Tumblr on 17 January 2012.

Mycroft was on the hunt. He had slipped away, as he was wont to do, and had taken the night for himself. The deceptively inexpensive and currently jacketless suit that he wore in place of his usual expensively tailored one made for an appearance that would have unsettled anyone who knew him. However, he added mentally, carefully rolling his shirt cuffs over his forearms, the small of his back pressed uncomfortably against the edge of the bar, they’ll never know, will they?

The hunt, as he had come to affectionately call it, was something that he had begun to do while at university, at least partially out of boredom. He would dress up, catch a cab to a bar that he had scoped out weeks in advance, and don the mask of a bored barfly. From there it was simply a matter of choosing a target and playing the game. Rather than make the first move, the game required that he slip inside his target’s brain and figure out what would induce them to make a move on him.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: M
Characters: Molly Hooper, Jim Moriarty
Primary Pairings: Molly Hooper/Jim Moriarty
Secondary Pairings: Implied Sebastian Moran/Jim Moriarty, Implied Molly/Jim/Sebastian
Warnings: If deep-throating a firearm bothers you, probably walk away from this one, chief
Word Count: 315

General Summary: In which Jim gets a girl and a gun and more than he bargained for.

Author’s Note: Yanno what? I wrote this in 2011 in a fit of self-indulgence and fuck it, I stand by that.

Dry, slightly chapped lips work their way over what suddenly felt like an impossible distance. A sharp intake of breath through the nostrils as slender fingers with carefully manicured nails clench a fistful of hair.

"Keep going."

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: T
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes
Primary Pairings: Implied Mycroft Holmes/Sherlock Holmes
Warnings: Drug use
Word Count: 688

General Summary: Sherlock discovers yet another one of Mycroft's hidden cameras and decides to punish his brother for the invasion of privacy.

Author’s Note: I wrote this piece in December 2011, and I don't know, it's an odd piece.

It was coming up on seventy-two hours and Sherlock still hadn’t moved except perhaps to blink once or twice as he stared directly into the hidden camera lens. Idly, Mycroft imagined that if he were to zoom in, he would probably be able to watch the fine, barely-there follicles of his brother’s facial hair inch out from their burrows in his skin in a barely-visible dusting of stubble. He had not attempted to do this just yet, of course, but the thought was there. The important thing to be garnered from all of this, from the statue act, Mycroft observed quietly to himself, was that Sherlock knew he was being watched, and was making that perfectly clear to the man on the other side of the camera lens.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Word Count: 428

General Summary: When Sherlock Holmes goes from the agonisingly pale days of lethargy and boredom back into himself, before he is able to throw himself back into his work, he faces a single obstacle in the form of a full week of agonising hypersensitivity.

Author’s Note: I originally posted this piece to Tumblr on 10 October 2011, during the advent of a manic swing, during which my chronic migraines went into hyper-drive. As someone who reads most Holmeses as being bipolar, this was pretty cathartic in a way.

John Watson watches from the kitchen as his flatmate stares fixedly at the curtained window. He thinks during this time that Sherlock is thinking. That the gears are turning on some intricate problem that involves hundreds of individual factors, none of which are the solar system.

John Watson is wrong.

Sherlock Holmes is staring fixedly at the window, willing the bare branch on the other side to somehow curve itself so that it stops scratching against the glass. Sherlock Holmes is wondering why John can’t hear the wretched noise, and if he can, why isn’t he reacting?

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: T
Setting: Twisted Sinews universe
Characters: Molly Hooper
Primary Pairings: Molly Hooper/Jim Moriarty
Warnings: Implied strangulation
Word Count: 324

General Summary: Molly has a problem that she has to hide from her coworkers.

Author’s Note: I originally posted this to Tumblr on 16 August 2011.

Currant berries. That’s what they look like. These words flashed briefly through Molly Hooper’s mind as she carefully examined the deep red marks on the sides of her neck. Ten of them. Ten, evenly-spaced ovals, two of the set larger and set just under her jaw. They’ll darken by noon probably. Shouldn’t take long at all.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: T
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes
Warnings: Drug use, implied overdose, implied drug addiction
Word Count: 613

General Summary: Mycroft Holmes has long grown used to his younger brother's habits, and has made a habit of being there when no one else can or dares.

Author’s Note: I originally posted this piece in August 2011, and it was later decided by myself and my collaborator to be part of the Dark Dog Days universe series.

The first thing that hit Mycroft as he entered the basement flat was the smell, one of those sickly-sweet odours that hung heavily in the air and clung to the every fibre of his clothes and each strand of his hair like a swarm of insects.

1. Decomposition, several days old.
2. Odour has permeated the entire flat, but has not begun to bother the neighbours yet.
3. Conclusion: Abandoned experiment. Probably in the kitchen.

The flat itself was a catastrophe of broken glass and papers even in the most traversable areas, and as Mycroft picked his way across the room, he carefully stepped over what appeared to be a box full of preserved cat foetuses.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G to T-ish
Setting: Twisted Sinews universe, Pre-Canon
Characters: Jim Moriarty
Word Count: 451

General Summary: Jim Moriarty wasn't an alcoholic, not properly anyway. Only bored.

Author’s Note: I originally posted this piece on Tumblr on 24 July 2011.

Tilting his head back, Jim felt the scotch seeping through his system, slowly warming his cold blood. One would never tell just by looking at him, but Jim was one of those quiet, early morning drinkers - the kind that spend the long hours between dawn and waking hours drinking themselves into a sort of quiet oblivion, all the while looking for a reason not to drink, but never quite finding it.

He wasn’t an alcoholic, he knew, not properly anyway. He could stop drinking, but he didn’t really want to - was almost afraid to stop. He didn’t even get drunk properly, like most people did. He never felt the need to fall unconscious, or be riotously funny, or even god-like. He just was.

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: G
Setting: Dark Dog Days universe
Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Word Count: 272

General Summary: Sherlock Holmes usually reserves his mind for interesting cases, but occasionally he takes whatever he can get just to get a fix.

Author’s Note: This was originally posted to Tumblr on 17 July 2011.

“How long?”

“About four hours." Lestrade’s voice was barely audible over the sound of the corpse on the floor.

In an instant, Sherlock Holmes was on his knees and long nimble fingers were everywhere at once; poking, prodding, turning up fabric folds, and to a certain degree aching to be free of their sterile latex coverings (but procedure is procedure, and the latex stays on).

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