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Sherlock Holmes thought coming back from dismantling Moriarty’s web would mean slipping straight into his old life. Instead, he’s met with John’s fist, a wrecked friendship, and months of tension that only spiral further when Mary’s secrets explode - and leave Sherlock paying the price once again.
Therapy, bruises, and too many ghosts of Baker Street later, Sherlock decides he’s done. He builds a new life - especially when a man from his past returns, and their connection turns into something deeper than either expected.
But secrets have a way of surfacing. As Lestrade, Mycroft, and finally John discover the truth, Sherlock realizes the life he’s rebuilt is nothing like the one he left behind—and maybe that’s the point.
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19 Jun 2026
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Sherlock is bored. The appearance of a new NSY detective provides an opportunity to make John jealous. John retaliates in a very satisfying way. Oh, and did I mention that there is Sherlock in knickers and some fun with jam?
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19 Jun 2026
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Due to an unfortunate misunderstanding, Sherlock and Mycroft have a terrible falling out. Angry and annoyed at his petulant little brother, Mycroft vows not to watch over him anymore, taking his men off CCTV duty. But what will he do when he discovers that Sherlock has fallen ill and both John and Mrs. Hudson are absent?
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11 Jun 2026
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A Study in Love by awaywardbeckett
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (BBC TV 2010)
08 Feb 2026
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John Watson returns from war with a broken body, a restless mind, and no idea where his life is meant to go. Sherlock Holmes has never needed anyone—until he does.
Set across all four seasons of BBC Sherlock, this slow-burn canon rewrite follows Sherlock and John from their first meeting at St. Bart’s Hospital to a shared flat on Baker Street, through cases that test their loyalty, separations that nearly destroy them, and truths neither of them is prepared to face.
As danger escalates and emotions deepen, partnership turns into devotion, devotion into love, and love into something neither of them can walk away from. This story explores trauma, trust, intimacy, and choice both emotional and physical culminating in a future they build together, on purpose.
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- Part 1 of After the Fall, We Choose
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09 Feb 2026
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Correspondence by wordsandpics
Fandoms: Sherlock (BBC TV 2010), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
23 Apr 2026
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After Sherlock leaves London, John tells himself it’s fine. He has work. He has Rosie.
But emails keep arriving: oddly specific observations, questions, invitations. John’s responses are brief, careful.Until Rosie starts asking questions. Until grief catches up. Until Sherlock’s quiet persistence makes distance impossible to ignore.
Told through journals, emails, and drafts John will never send, Correspondence follows the slow work of repair—and learning that belonging isn’t found. It’s chosen, again and again.
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- Part 2 of Return Post
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06 Feb 2026
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A What to do When Your Flatmate is Homicidal New Year's Diversion
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- Part 2 of What to Do
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24 Jan 2026
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"You don't have to --"
"I know I don't." But Sherlock leaves anyway, spurred by equal parts anger and shame. He promises to be back in 30 minutes with the forgotten milk for Rosie's evening meal.
He does not return.
Later, John will think of that last glimpse of Sherlock's face, the tired hurt, the start of tears. He will think that maybe Sherlock has simply decided to be done with this, to be done with him.
Still, maybe he'd better call Greg, see if anyone's caught a glimpse of the man. Just in case.
Across town, Sherlock plots escape but hopes for rescue, trapped in a situation that he cannot talk his way out of.
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17 Jan 2026
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Recently-widowed John takes a look at his life and finds it lacking. It's been twenty years since Sherlock returned from the dead, but he's never stopped thinking things should have turned out very differently. Sherlock has been living in Sussex for five years now, but it takes the news that he has a new partner in crime to get John out of London. A tale of pining, and jealousy, jumping to the wrong conclusion, and old men in love.
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04 Jan 2026
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Not much of an apology, perhaps, but long overdue.
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29 Dec 2025
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Flattened By Your Interest by J_Baillier
Fandoms: Sherlock (BBC TV 2010), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
27 Dec 2025
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A Christmas story of male escorts, rotting corpses, drunken sisters and hopeless romance. What else would we expect from John Watson and Sherlock Holmes?
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28 Dec 2025
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Sherlock Holmes has returned from the dead an altered man. Though he is back on cases with the Yard, Greg Lestrade can't help noticing that there is something off about the consulting detective. In many ways he is still the abrasive and condescending man that drove Greg close to cracking multiple times in the past; yet that core of mischief, of enjoyment, of curiosity seems to be gone.
A disagreement over a key element in a case leads Greg to approach Sherlock in a way he has never tried before - and through doing so he reaches a new depth of understanding of the troubled genius that will lead him to consider their relationship in a new light...
(Not a Johnlock fic....)
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- Part 13 of OLTAB fluffy fics
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27 Dec 2025
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Fake marriage for inheritance. Emotional damage for free.
Sherlock said, "Now he leaves me this puzzle. His final lesson. Which means the answer inside must matter. It isn’t trinkets or family jewelry. It will be something I care about. Something meant for me. He knew my weaknesses too well. And if he claims the answer is in that box, then I cannot - will not - walk away. And now, somehow, he’s managed to tether me back into my family's little theatre. To open the box, I must prove myself in the one arena they believe I’ll never succeed - intimacy, family, love.”
John said, “Love as a puzzle, not exactly your strongest suit. And you’re going to let them sit in judgment of you?”
Sherlock’s mouth twisted, “They always have, John. The difference is, this time I need what they’re keeping from me.”
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19 Dec 2025
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17 Dec 2025
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Tired of his pointless life, John Watson travels to the place of his childhood vacations in Scotland.
After spending a restless night in a heavy thunderstorm, John finds somebody on the beach who will change his life forever.
Together, they rise like a phoenix from the ashes of their existence.Thanks a lot to peageetibbs, my dearest fandom friend, who once again betaed my fic.
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04 Dec 2025
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Sherlock returns from his self-imposed exile to find a John Watson he barely recognises. Now he must solve the mystery of the disappeared man and try to rebuild their relationship as well as deal with his own return to a London that has forgotten him.
Post The Reichenbach Fall. Romance, angst, slash. Sherlock x John.
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- Part 2 of In Memoriam
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03 Dec 2025
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Sherlock Holmes has visited Molly Hooper's home on three different occasions in the five years they have known each other. Each visit has gone differently, starting with Sherlock becoming Molly's first lover, and then the two of them continuing their dance where they pretend it didn't happen, and finally the two of them having the conversation they should have had years before. This is the story of Sherlock's journey to be a better man towards her.
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23 Oct 2025
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Moriarty is dead. Sherlock is about to jump. Two words change everything.
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24 Sep 2025
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“Is it really you?”
John gave a small, broken smile. “’Course it is.”
Sherlock closed his eyes. Let his head fall against John’s shoulder again.
“…you didn’t have to touch my hair like that.”
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What if - John saves Sherlock from Serbia. Drama ensues.
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Or, a season 3 rewrite.Bookmarked by wamadeusm
11 Jul 2025
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Irrefutable by ilikeblue for Roccolinde, LyricalKris, samblueberry, Silvergirl
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock BBC
11 Jul 2025
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He took the steps two at a time and threw open the door with an imperious, “For the love of God, it had better be a seven.” But then his bluster deflated and he whizzed to a halt.
John stood on the stoop with Rosie on his hip. Two suitcases were crowded behind them, threatening to tumble backward onto the kerb and vomit their overstuffed contents. It had been five months since Sherrinford, and a quiet drive home, and John returning to his daughter in the home he’d bought for his dead wife.
“Hello.” John fidgeted, rebalancing Rosie’s weight. “It’s been a minute, yeah? Thought we’d…” He shook his head, paused, frowned. “Are those new goggles?”
“No.” Sherlock watched Rosie chew her finger. Unable to rein in his traitorous hope, he asked, “Why are you here?”
John and Rosie move back into 221b, and life takes on a new normal: one where John smells like Sherlock’s mate, Rosie smells like his daughter, and Sherlock tries his damndest to ignore the evidence. But how long can the world’s only consulting detective avoid coming to the obvious conclusion?
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09 Jul 2025
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When Major James Sholto is on leave from Afghanistan, he takes a very late night walk. And if he just so happens to meet a man willing to exchange money for a certain kind of company for a night and forget the next morning, then he certainly wouldn't complain.
This is how he meets Sherlock Holmes.
The tricky part, he learns, is forgetting.
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09 Jul 2025