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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: Dragon's Egg
Author: saki101
Genre: pre-slash
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing: Illya/Napoleon
Disclaimer: Man from UNCLE is not mine and no money is being made.
A/N: elmey’s prompt was a Persian proverb: Night hides the world, but reveals a universe.

Also posted on AO3.


Excerpt: Napoleon glanced over his shoulder. Above the antique desk that crouched on its claw feet on the far side of the room, a faint glow illuminated a fold of the tapestry behind which they had located the safe. Illya had cracked it like it was a child’s toy, but inside there had been a strong box that was resisting his attentions with unusual success.

( Dragon's Egg )

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Title: Penumbra (Chapter One: Meet Me at Moonrise)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Mike Stamford
Rating: NC-17 (for series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~6.1K (Chapter One)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
Preview: John’s grown up with the stories about Holmeswood Manor. They are certainly not going to keep him from interviewing for a residential post there because he cannot afford London on an army pension and there could not possibly be any truth to the tales.
A/N: A gothic romance 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.

Excerpt: He flitted across the moonbeams streaming through the windows. When I finally set myself in motion, he had stopped in the last pool of silvery light and was regarding me. There were no flames to colour him there; he was all pallor and darkness.

The room seemed inordinately long as I progressed through it, skirting the benches and pedestals and display cases that seemed to sprout in my path. I thought the shadows about him grew denser as I hastened forward and a fear that he might be swallowed by them before I reached his side gripped me.

He waited, as still and pale as the statues I had passed, except, as I drew near, I could see the pink bloom of his mouth.


( Penumbra (Chapter One: Meet Me at Moonrise) )

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: The Apothecaries’ Garden
Recipient: tweedisgood
Author: saki101
Rating: PG-13
Characters, including any pairing(s): Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mrs Hudson
Word Count: ~10K
Warnings: none
Summary: Watson hopes to distract Holmes during a lull between cases. (Set sometime after A Study in Scarlet and before The Sign of the Four).
Disclaimer: public domain
A/N: Although not necessary to the story, if anyone would like to refresh their recollection of Hawthorne’s tale, Rappaccini’s Daughter may be read here. The “phantasy, in three scenes” inspired by Hawthorne’s story, entitled The Poison-Flower, may be read here.

Written for the ACD Holmesfest Gift Exchange.

Also posted on AO3.

( The Apothecaries’ Garden )

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: 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: Necropolis
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Mycroft Holmes, Gregory Lestrade, Molly Hooper, Shermtal calock Holmes
Rating: PG-13
Genre: pre-slash
Word Count: ~16K
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
Summary: Corpses are piling up where they are least, or perhaps most, expected.
A/N: Written for the Spook-Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon 2013 to fill prompts involving demons/ghouls and drawings of old, crowded graveyards.

On AO3

Can be read alone.

Necropolis may also be read as a sequel to We're Sorry For Any Inconvenience.

Excerpt: “It’s not what I would have expected in a tomb.”
“No,” Mycroft said, stepping forward to stand next to Greg. “My…forebears had unusual views on many subjects.”

Written for the MFUWSS 2013 Easter Egg challenge for elmey whose prompt was: Mr. Kuryakin is not unknown as a cat burglar.

Title: Conversion*
Author: Saki101
Fandom: Man from UNCLE
Pairing: Illya/Napoleon
Genre: Pre-slash
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~625
Disclaimer: The usual, because MFU is not mine and no money is being made.

( Conversion )