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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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Story diverges at Empty Hearse. Silver’s prompt for FTH asked for a story where Sherlock tells John what he did when he was “away” dismantling Moriarty's network. As per Silver's suggestions, Sherlock brutally tells him, not just in “ellipses and generalities” but the terrible truth. This begins as a confrontation that leads to “conversation and allows for healing that didn't happen.” Along the way they solve a case and acknowledge their hearts.
Written for Silvergirl for Fandom Trumps Hate 2025. Thank you for the wonderful prompt.
Beta by AnvergersReader (giveme sherbert on Tumblr). Thanks so much for the incredible job.
Also inspired by 26 pieces by Lanning
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05 Jan 2026
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i could be your perfect disaster (you could be my ever after) by 0r1g1np01nt
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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"mikes gonna hear good luck babe in 40 years and lose his mind" "mikes gonna hear conan gray in 40 years and go crazy" mike is gonna watch dead poets society like a week after will leaves hawkins and in a fit of insanity is going to fly to new york and show up at his door unannounced like the messy gay disaster that he is
aka i wrote a fic based off of my own tumblr post bc it's not like i have anything Else to be doing (sarcasm)
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05 Jan 2026
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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