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Title: ♢ ♧ ♤ ♡
Author: saki101
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mrs Hudson
Rating: Mature
Genre: Urban fantasy
Warnings: No warnings apply
Summary: An odd, little slice of life on Baker Street. (A sequel to Blades, although each may be read as a stand alone fic.)
A/N: Written for the 2021 Summer Holmestice Exchange where lots of other Sherlock Holmes fic, art, video and podcasts may be found!

(Any references to incidents in the later episodes of Sherlock do not imply that any major plot points in those episodes happened in this universe, although small incidents and bits of conversation may have.)

On AO3


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Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Second Chapter: Alchemy)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, OCs
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~8K
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to my gothic fusion of Sherlock and the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), set about a year after the first series.

Alchemy on AO3.
Series One (all five chapters) on A03.


Excerpt: I put my hands over my face. When I’ve been wild, when he’s been away, when I have lain, sated and breathless beside him, there have been times when I’ve begged him to do whatever he wanted so long as we didn’t stop.

Title: Pale Horse
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: PG
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~500 words
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A short, mythical AU in which Mycroft and Sherlock vie for control of John's fate.

Excerpt: “Him,” Sherlock said, with a wave of his hand towards the broad, shallow dish of water. “The third in line; I’ll have him.”

Also posted on AO3.

( Pale Horse )

Title: The House of Usher (on AO3)
Recipient: piplover
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mrs Hudson, OCs, Roderick Usher/Edgar Corvus, Madeline Usher
Rating: Mature
Word Count: ~13K (posted in two parts due to length)
Warnings: case related violence
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock, the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle nor The Fall of the House of Usher is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A fusion of Sherlock TAB and ACD crossed over with The Fall of the House of Usher. (Although not essential to the story, if anyone would like to re-read Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, it may be found at Project Gutenberg here. Several passages are quoted in the story.)
Summary: A new client wants Sherlock Holmes to investigate the fall of the House of Usher. Doctor Watson ponders the use of forenames.

Excerpt: Holmes had held up the dagger and grinned at me, pushing away the hair that had fallen into his eyes and smearing muck across his face in the process. The steel blade had glittered in the sunlight as he turned it to read the inscription around the ornate hilt.

“Best not to commit crimes with family heirlooms,” he had observed.

( The House of Usher )

Title: Penumbra (Addenda: Baskerville & Chapalu - Conclusion)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Greg Lestrade
Rating: NC-17 (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~15K (Addenda: Baskerville & Chapalu - posted on LJ in two parts due to length)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
Preview: John is no longer sequestered. Boundaries are crossed and creatures encountered.
A/N: A gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), presented in four episodes, and written for the Miniseries March Challenge at Fall TV Season Sherlock.

( Penumbra (Addenda: Chapalu & Baskerville) - Conclusion )

Title: Penumbra (Chapter Three: Transfusions - second part)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Mike Stamford, Bill Wiggins, Mrs Turner
Rating: NC-17 (for this chapter and the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~11K (Chapter Three in two parts on LJ due to length)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
Preview: Sherlock’s life is endangered and John is ready to do whatever is necessary to save him.
A/N: A gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), presented in four episodes, and written for the Miniseries March Challenge at Fall TV Season Sherlock.

(After some revision, the chapter went over the LJ word limit so it is now posted in two sections.)

Also posted On AO3.
Chapter One on LJ
Chapter Two on LJ
Chapter Three - part 1 on LJ

Excerpt: A glint of white streaked across the sky, a fleck of fallen moonbeam.
Fanciful, Watson.
I may have crossed into the land of poets and madmen; I should use their language.


( Penumbra (Chapter Three: Transfusions) second part )

Title: Penumbra (Chapter Two: Sequestration)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Mike Stamford, Bill Wiggins
Rating: NC-17 (for series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~7.3K (Chapter Two)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
Preview: John learns that one of the terms of employment is that he must remain at the Manor, unless accompanying Sherlock elsewhere, for the entire month of his probation.
A/N: A gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), presented in four episodes, and written for the Miniseries March Challenge at Fall TV Season Sherlock.

Also posted on AO3.
Chapter One: Meet Me at Moonrise may be read on LJ here.

Excerpt: “I can come back in the morning,” I called.

“No!” He shouted, striding back through the door. He took a deep breath when he stood before me again and regarded me from beneath lowered brows. “We have begun,” he said quietly.


( Penumbra (Chapter Two: Sequestration) )

Title: Coloured Pencils
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock/John, Mike Stamford, Greg Lestrade, Sarah Sawyer
Rating: R
Word Count: ~9.5K
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: One day, while Sherlock is sleeping off the excesses of a case, John gets bored.
A/N: (Set sometime after series 3, when John has returned to Baker Street to live.)

Written for snarryfool/ancientreader, whose wide-ranging and wonderful requests spoilt me for inspirational choice, as part of the Holmestice December 2015 Fanworks Exchange.

Also posted on AO3.

( Coloured Pencils )

Title: Lepidoptera
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Mycroft Holmes, Mike Stamford, Mummy Holmes, Father Holmes, Puck, Ella Thompson
Rating: NC-17
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~17.5K
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: Mike introduces John to Mrs Hudson, but Sherlock finds John nevertheless.
A/N: A stand-alone AU of the Sherlock universe crossed with A Midsummer Night's Dream written for the Spook-Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon 2015 in response to the prompt: dark faerie(s).

Posted in two sections on LJ due to word limits. Link to conclusion at the bottom of text.
Also, on AO3.

Excerpt: “Nothing ever happens to me,” John said, meeting Ella’s detached gaze. He could look someone straight in the eye and not give away a thing. The skill had been as valuable in his career as when he played poker. His therapist glanced down to scratch at her notebook. She had perfected the same technique.

John looked beyond her. Outside the firmly closed windows, bare tree branches scratched at the pale grey page of the sky.

"Anymore," he added silently.

( Lepidoptera )

Title: Rain
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John/Sherlock, Mycroft, Mrs Hudson, Anthea, OCs, Red, Gray
Rating: PG-13 to R-ish (for whole story)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~1.7K this chapter (14.2K total so far)
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: Kittens and their case.
A/N: Rain is a sequel to Milk and Red.

Excerpt: “We will literally be herding cats.” Anthea consulted her Blackberry. “Interesting expression,” she murmured, typing rapidly on the device.

“I believe I could write a treatise on the nuances of its meaning,” Mycroft said...


Also posted on AO3.
Chapter 1 on LJ.
Chapter 2 on LJ
Chapter 3 on LJ

( Rain )