Cardiophilia Sequence
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suddenly your heart showed me my way by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
23 May 2012
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In which Sherlock develops a fixation with John’s pulse, and discovers his own esoteric heart in the process.
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- Part 1 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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the beat and beating heart by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
14 Jun 2012
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Sherlock can’t play, can’t compose the way he once did, not now. Not in this brave new world of John Hamish Watson and the muscle in his chest. Or: where Sherlock continues to fixate on John's heartbeat, and deems his lips to be the best means of collecting data on the pulse at John's neck; John, in turn, has a few questions, after his flatmate decides to tongue at his carotid pulse.
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- Part 2 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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your heart in the lightning (and the thunder that follows) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
29 Jun 2012
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This is the end of the world, and beginning of something wider, warmer, better. And Sherlock, for all that it breaks him, doesn’t believe that anything less will ever again suffice. In which Sherlock sucks, licks, and generally worships John's femoral pulse until John comes.
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- Part 3 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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echoes through the caverns of a chest (the give and take) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
03 Jul 2012
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John’s heartbeat is the first and only symphony that Sherlock doesn’t quite feel worthy enough to know.
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- Part 4 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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i'd trade your fading heart (for the flailing beats in mine) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
04 Sep 2012
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All songs end. All hearts stop.
But damnit, not John’s.
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- Part 5 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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i am tired, beloved (of chafing my heart against the want of you) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
30 Sep 2012
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Love is more than a vicious motivator. Love is Armageddon and the plague, and the spark of life when the world’s coming down.
In dealing with the aftermath of nearly losing the man who means everything, Sherlock is nothing short of terrified. And John, well—John should probably have seen this coming.
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- Part 6 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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all the jagged edges (of the broken heart made whole) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
31 Oct 2012
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Sherlock Holmes never lent much credence to the concept of heartbreak, until his own heart managed the feat.
It's a good thing, then, that he's in love with a man who is rather skilled at fitting together the broken pieces.
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- Part 7 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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within the beating, blessed (aching, rising; hand in hand) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
12 Feb 2013
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Five times John happily indulged Sherlock's strange infatuation with his heartbeat despite his failure to comprehend the fixation, plus one time where John found he understood it rather perfectly.
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- Part 8 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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oh heart, you wicked saint by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
10 Mar 2013
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John teases his incisors against the stretch of that skin with each beat, beat, beat, and yes, John wants—he licks, tastes salt and smoke and solace and he refuses to think about what he’s been missing, what he’s been overlooking in this the whole goddamn time.
In which John finally comes to understand Sherlock's infatuation with his heartbeat, and makes the absolute most of it.
(In bed.)Series
- Part 9 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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oh, heart (i would not dangle you down into the sorry places) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
09 Apr 2014
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It starts with sentiment. It continues with observation. It culminates in what John thinks, for the longest of seconds, has to be heartbreak, has to be what it means for the muscle to give out spontaneously for no more reason than it knows it won’t survive what’s to come.
So for the longest of seconds: it culminates in what John believes is an end he can’t halt or forestall.
And then he breathes.
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- Part 10 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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and i say to my heart: rave on by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
18 Apr 2014
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Always, always: Sherlock will rewrite the cosmos for John Watson.
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- Part 11 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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i took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart (i am, i am, i am) by hitlikehammers for speakmefair
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
26 Oct 2015
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They conduct a symphony, here.
And, like all symphonies: they are coming to a close.
(Final installment of The Cardiophilia Sequence.)
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- Part 12 of Cardiophilia Sequence
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(just for the moment) let's be still by hitlikehammers for Nagaem_C
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
08 Dec 2016
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He needs to know it again. Breathe it in. Needs to touch it, needs to measure every quiver of its beating heart.
Upon returning: despite everything, in the face of everything—Goddamnit, but Sherlock needs.
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Cut-Scene from The Cardiophilia Sequence, should S3 have proceeded as in canon versus how it proceded in this series
(Winter Gift-Fic Extravaganza, 3/25)
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- Part 13 of Cardiophilia Sequence