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The Conflict of the Mind by softlock
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
29 Jun 2025
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"The John in his mind palace was infinitely kinder than the real John. So why does he keep longing after him? Why couldn’t he let go and let him live his life?"
Sherlock comes back from the dead and realizes not only is his relationship to John damaged but his psyche is also damaged. Is the damage beyond repair? Will Sherlock and John come together to heal? -
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John and Sherlock act as a fake couple to investigate a case at the Nobel prize banquet.
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“When I said I was okay to pretend to be in a relationship with you, I meant sharing food at dinner and possibly holding hands, not sharing a bed with my flatmate!”
“Don’t be an idiot! That was rather the point, you know! We need to sleep in the same room in order to catch the killer!”John and Sherlock enter a fake relationship for a case. Will these idiots realize they don't need to act anymore?
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But I kept running for a soft place to fall by softlock
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
02 Jul 2020
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"The guilt was eating up at his insides like he was a particularly gruesome corpse.
But John knew he was all both Sherlock and Rosie had. And all he had was them. It was them against the rest of the world. How ironic."
Set after the Culverton case, nothing is well, John and Sherlock are a mess. They slowly pick up the shambles and start anew.
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It was Worth a Wound by TheHappyGirl
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
20 Dec 2025
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"All of a sudden, the pain in my leg didn’t matter.
Nothing mattered anymore, except for the way Sherlock was looking at me and holding me.
It was the answer to all of my questions."The Adventure of the Three Garridebs but make it BBC Sherlock.
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28 Dec 2025
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The Death of Doubt by AuburnRecluse for cccahill18
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
14 Feb 2014
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For cccahill18, based on their prompt for johnlockchallenges Valentine's Day Exchange: Mycroft asks for John’s help in rescuing Sherlock from his Serbian captors. Requested genres: AU, fluff, angst, hurt/comfort
Sherlock couldn’t decide if it was the kindest or the cruelest trick his mind had ever played on him, to give him a blurry vision of John Watson standing there with haggard lines on his face, the beginnings of an absolutely disastrously scruffy beard, and a grubby knit cap shoved down over his ears. His mouth shaped around that name, the one he hadn’t allowed himself to utter aloud in two years, and it felt foreign as it scraped weakly past his lips.
“John?”
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09 Dec 2025
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“Sherlock, do you believe that you deserved the beating John gave you?”
He’s quiet. This question is an unsolvable riddle, every time he’s asked it.
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Sherlock has never known how to take care of himself — let alone anybody else. But if he wants John back in his life, he knows he’ll have to try. In the wake of Mary’s death and John’s rejection, a countryside retreat and a new friendship help Sherlock begin to grow into a better man.
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16 Nov 2025
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Anything For You by flowing_river for EdosianOrchids901
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (Granada TV 1984)
13 Aug 2025
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After Watson is cornered and attacked in an alley, can Holmes show up in time to save him?
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14 Nov 2025
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The price we're willing to pay by Jessa_yeah
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
28 Oct 2025
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As a flash of lightning in the night shows up in an instant every detail of a wide landscape, so at one glance I seemed to see every possible result of such an action—the detection, the capture, the honoured career ending in irreparable failure and disgrace, my friend himself lying at the mercy of the odious Milverton. “For Heaven’s sake, Holmes, think what you are doing,” I cried. - Fragment from ‘Charles Augustus Milverton’, a story from ‘The return of Sherlock Holmes’ short story collection, by Arthur Conan Doyle
What if Watson’s fear had come to pass? Holmes’ and Watson’s attempted burglary on Milverton’s estate goes horribly wrong and the two men find themselves quite literally in the hands of the notorious blackmailer. They will have to rely on each other like never before to help them through the aftermath.
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02 Nov 2025