saki101

Title: Seat Assignment: Open
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Gregory Lestrade/Mycroft Holmes, OCs, cameos
Rating: R-ish
Genre: Slash, romance, AU
Word Count: ~4K
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Cabin Pressure are mine and no money is being made.
Summary: During the Hiatus, Greg’s and Mycroft’s interest in one another develops beyond the professional.
A/N: Not Series 3 compliant. Written for Let's Write Sherlock Challenge 13-Vacation Getaway. Although the story may be read alone, the theme of the challenge prompted me to write another story in the Mystrade series which, more or less, began with an earlier holiday in We Are Sorry For Any Inconvenience.

Excerpt: Nine days of leisure stretched before Greg. He hadn’t a reservation or a plan for a single hour of it. He’d received a few winks and nudges when he’d said he hadn’t booked anything. A week in bed with a like-minded partner would have been an excellent way to spend the time, but he didn’t have that lined up either. He pushed a certain thought away as he slipped between the tourists and commuters and continued east along the Embankment.

Also, on AO3.

( Seat Assignment: Open )

Title: Homo Faber
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mrs Hudson, Mike Stamford, Victor, OCs
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Slash
Word Count: ~13.1K total (posted in two parts due to length)
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: What if Dr Frankenstein had had Dr Watson to keep him right? A story in which Sherlock's mother's maiden name is Frankenstein and Dr Watson has been invalided home towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars...
Notes: A stand-alone AU fusion fix-it fic written for the Springlock Exchange 2014 for swimmingbirdrunningrock's great prompt: John's the detective, Sherlock's the doctor. AU, fic or ficlet? Go wild. This connected to a thought I had had upon seeing Frankenstein with Mr Cumberbatch in the role of the scientist: every genius needs a John Watson.

Excerpt: “We are all egoists,” he said. “Every child likes to hear the story of his beginnings, the tale of his parents’ courtship, the events surrounding his birth, the parts of his story he cannot know himself.”

On AO3



( Homo Faber )

Title: Sherlock's Meta: The Tell-Tale Heart
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock/John
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Slash, metafiction
Word Count: ~2.1K
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: On the night before Christmas, Sherlock reflects.
A/N: Musings in the first person, from the viewpoints of different characters, about Series Three. The Tell-Tale Heart may be read alone or together with John's Meta and Mycroft's Meta.

Excerpt: When I invited you to live with me that first day at Bart’s, I had not foreseen that forgiveness would feature so prominently in our relationship.

Also posted on A03.



( Sherlock's Meta: The Tell-Tale Heart )

Title: John's Meta: Dressing Wounds
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock/John, Mary/John
Rating: Between PG-13 and R-ish
Genre: Slash, metafiction
Word Count: ~2.5K
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: In the months between the shooting and Christmas, John reflects.
A/N: More musings about Series Three and how it might connect to things that went before. Dressing Wounds may be read alone or together with John's Meta: Your Life and Mine.




Excerpt:

The light is fading. The bit of blue in the sky is gone, the wind picking up again. You should be back soon from Bart’s.

A taxi stops outside. I listen. I listened for months after you fell, hoping, hoping, strangled by hope. I hear the door shut, your foot on the stair. I glance at my laptop screen. I haven’t written much, deleted most of what I did write. It’s hard for me to tie this down in words. I was really just waiting for you to return.

Also posted on AO3. (A further set of coordinating photos may be found here.)

( John's Meta: Dressing Wounds )

Title: Mycroft's Meta: Time to Choose A Side
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Myrcroft, Sherlock, AGRA, Sherlock/John, Mary/John,
Rating: PG
Genre: Meta
Word Count: ~1.1K
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: Post-His Last Vow, Mycroft reflects.
A/N: More musings about Series Three and how it might connect to things that went before. A related, Mycroft-centric photoset may be found here. Mycroft's Meta may be read alone or together with John's Meta: Your Life and Mine.

Also posted on AO3. (A further set of coordinating photos may be found here.)



( Mycroft's Meta: Time to Choose A Side )

Title: John's Meta: Your Life and Mine
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock/John, Mary/John, Sherlock/John/Mary, Sherlock/Molly, Sherlock/Janine, Sherlock/Irene
Rating: R
Genre: Slash
Word Count: ~1K
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: John reflects.
A/N: My amorphous musings about Series Three coalesced into this. Inspired by the many wonderful metas I've been reading, particularly Aderyn's His Not-Last Vow.

John's Meta may be read alone or in conjuction with Mycroft's Meta: Time to Choose A Side.

Excerpt: It’s like a story, your life and mine.

Of course, John, you’d say. A whole host of stories. You’ve been writing them since we met.

Also, on AO3.
An accompanying gif/photo set may be viewed on tumblr.

( John's Meta: Your Life and Mine )

Title: Leaf Fall
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Gregory Lestrade
Rating: R
Genre: Slash
Word Count: ~2.7K
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: Sherlock had been counting on the foliage for cover. Nature had other plans.

On AO3

A small stand-alone inspired by the season.

Leaf Fall may also be read as part of the Other Experiments Series; it would fit in a while after Necropolis. (For those who have read Necropolis, there is a small word game in Leaf Fall based on some symbols in the former.)

Excerpt: Sherlock glared through the bare branches of the shrubs curving around the east side of the hillock, dividing it from the lower path and the bench on its verge. Only the holly stood green and glossy to one side. “It wasn’t that windy last night,” he hissed, consulting his phone again. He shoved it in his pocket. A leaf floated past, serrated and gold, to land on the pile that came nearly to his knees.

( Leaf Fall )

Title: We're Sorry For Any Inconvenience
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Mycroft Holmes, Gregory Lestrade
Rating: Between PG-13 & R-ish
Genre: pre-slash and rather fluffy
Word Count: ~10K
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: Months after The Fall, John doesn't return from a holiday. His friends and family don't report his absence to the police. Mycroft thinks Lestrade may know why. At least that's the ostensible reason for his visit to Lestade's office.
A/N: Written for the Sherlockmas SPF 2013 to fill Prompt #39: Lestrade; upgrade to first class for bwblack)

Also, posted on AO3

Can be read alone.

(The first paragraph is a summary of the opening scene between Mycroft and Lestrade in Carbonado. The full conversation that preceded Mycroft’s offer may be read here.)

We're Sorry For Any Inconvenience may also be read as part of the Other Experiments series where it would fit in after Carbonado.

Excerpt: Lestrade considered the man standing in his office. He was sure that if Sherlock wanted his brother to know he was alive and well and where he and John were, Mycroft wouldn’t be suggesting a friendly chat over dinner. Mycroft gestured towards the door as Greg stood and rounded the desk. He knew it was a dangerous move to accept, but Sherlock wasn’t the only one who loved a challenge.


( We're Sorry For Any Inconvenience )

Title: Files From a Flashdrive: White Satin, Silver Sequins
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John/Sherlock
Rating: R-ish
Word Count: ~1700
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Also posted on: LJ Sherlockmas
Summary: John doesn't only write about their cases.
A/N: Written for the Sherlockmas 2013 SPF: First Friday Drabble Day Post to fill Prompt No. 81: Sherlock, John, Lestrade (optional Sally); too many memories of a bad case. Their flexible rules permitted fills longer than 500 words as well. As usual, I've interpreted a prompt in my own strange way.

Posted, also, on AO3.

Can be read alone.

It may also be read as part of the Other Experiments series where it would fit in after Revisionist. (Other Experiments begins with Sometimes.)



Excerpt: “The folks from the theatre were more than willing to help; they’re still grateful about The Navel Treatment case. Well, of course, you know that,” I continued, heading towards the fridge. I reached in and seized a water bottle. “They said we could have kept the hats. Just as well we didn't. That must have been the best-documented petty theft in history.”


( Files From a Flashdrive: White Satin, Silver Sequins )

Title: Reliquary (conclusion)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John/Sherlock & John/Sherlock/Maria(Mary)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~10.5K total, posted in two parts as it is a little too long for one.
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
A/N: The first part of Reliquary is here.

( Reliquary (conclusion) )