14 Works in Competent John Watson
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The Archivist by Sakshi_S
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (TV)
03 Nov 2025
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A vanished archivist, a murdered curator, and a killer who files his victims like records—Sherlock and John unravel a web of ink, secrets, and obsession across London’s archives, where every clue is catalogued and even chaos demands to be classified.
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The Man You Want in a Crisis by AthosLover
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (TV), The Responder (TV 2022)
19 Oct 2025
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After Sherlock’s fall, John Watson walks away from London and everything he thought he knew.
In Liverpool, with his brother Chris Carson, he learns how to live again — not as a soldier or a sidekick, but as the man people call when everything goes wrong. -
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When Sherlock Holmes meets an army doctor at a hostage situation, the usual dynamic gets flipped. John’s more interested in saving lives than being dazzled by deductions.
Somehow, they’re both still exactly what the other needs.
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It was just a blue backpack.
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stirringofbirds between my arms by NotusLethe
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Enola Holmes (Movies)
29 Dec 2022
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Over the years, John Watson gets to know his new flatmate, Sherlock Holmes, and the man's clever ward.
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"Would you mind, ah, telling me about one of your cases? I haven't had a mind to know what's happening in the world, and I would like to hear about your accomplishments."
To Watson's surprise, for what little he knew he didn't think Holmes would be one to succumb to more tender emotions, the man flushes red in his cheeks and along his ears. He clears his throat. "I am not much of a storyteller."
"That's alright. I've a good imagination and I'm very keen on asking questions." -
Power to Protect; Power to Heal by Queen_OfThe_Universe
Fandoms: Person of Interest (TV)
01 Sep 2022
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Harold always returns from his weekends away bruised and damaged, unable to shed whatever alias he’d been using. When Harold leaves for the weekend again, John gets a number he can't ignore, forcing him to leave Harold in Bear's capable paws for awhile. Read the tags.
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The Best Seats in The House by J_Baillier
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
29 Mar 2022
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Nature photographer John Watson is trying to do the same as the locals: getting the hell of the way when the killer queen of Indonesian's volcanoes starts a drumbeat towards eruption. Little does he know that soon, he'll be headed straight into the danger zone.
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through the blood and smoke by MinorObsessions (draculard) for Small_Hobbit
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
01 Apr 2021
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In the middle of all this chaos, Watson turns and catches sight of Holmes's face.
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I'm Okay, You're Okay (He's Kind Of Weird)--Original Flavor by funnymagic_aing
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
04 May 2018
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From the prompt:
It was always Jim and John, John and Jim.Even when Jim was moved ahead grades, or when John's father hit him, or when they came out to their families.
When Carl Powers was killed for calling John a faggot, or when Jim killed John's father for hitting him too hard- it was always the two of them.
And then they went to university. Jim got all the scholarships- he was a genius, of course he did. John had no choice but to enlist. The army paid for his education. It was the only way. And it was still Jim and John. Jim was the genius, John the simple minded, adoring boyfriend, who didn't mind the Semtex lying around, or the toxins on the stove. And then he went to war.
When he came back, Jim was gone. Left behind the boring army doctor.
Sherlock did not faze him-Jim was better at the deducing, and heads can't compare to explosives.
Happy-ish Jim/John ending please
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This is the first draft version of this story, as first posted to the Sherlock LJ kink meme. I'm just kind of slapping it on here so it can be read more easily. Once completed, it will be revised and reposted as a new story, but this will remain up even after I have done so.
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(PODFIC) Gone to Feed the Roses (Elegant and Curled) by Talking2MyselfAgain (DisasterDungeonMaster) for hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
03 Jul 2017
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This is a podfic recording of hitlikehammers' fantastic story.
John Watson is no one's weeping widow, and he knows that it's not impossible to cheat death.
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The Living, The Dead, and the Shadows by ArwenKenobi
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Dark Knight Rises (2012)
08 Jul 2013
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"Which are you?" John asks his table mate. "Dead man or a shadow?
"Neither," he smiles. "A shadow really, I suppose."
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- Part 7 of Watson's Woes July Writing Prompts 2013
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“Teach me how to give blowjobs.”
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Mycroft takes a bullet for John. And then he takes another.
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Gone to Feed the Roses (Elegant and Curled) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
15 Jun 2012
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John Watson is no one's weeping widow, and he knows that it's not impossible to cheat death.