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1. An old flame may come back to burn you by watsons_beekeeper for edgarallennope

   Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   08 Aug 2026

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   • Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
   • Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
   • Sherlock Holmes
   • John Watson
   • Murray (Sherlock Holmes)
   • Blackmail
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Angst
   • Watson's old army days
   • Mentions of Wartime
   • the labouchere amendment
   • Watson has been through a lot poor man
   • and he's so hopelessly in love with Holmes
   • Longing
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Love Confessions
   • First Kiss

   Summary

   Watson's old lover from the army days is threatening to send compromising letters to the police to expose him as an invert, unless he pays a conciderable sum of money to make it all go away. What is Watson to do? He is terrified Holmes might learn of the whole ordeal, and yet he finds himself in desperate need of help.

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