The Rose Bed (1/6): First in a New Series!

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Title: The Rose Bed: Part One
Characters and Pairings: Mycroft, Sherlock, Mummy Holmes, Father Holmes, various OMCs and OFCs; vague reference to Mycroft/OFC
Rating: R for the whole piece
Warnings: Explicit depiction of suicide, serious drug abuse, unhealthy family relations, and other angsty unpleasantness. (Note: Warnings apply to the fic as a whole, and thus may not all appear in this initial part.)
Word Count: 2,100 for Part One only, probably around 15,000 to 16,000 for all six parts together
Betas: My betas are all stellar! Thank you stardust_made, zipudding, and the221armada
Spoilers: None, really, unless you haven't seen the series at all.
Summary: A unexpected death in the family means Mycroft has to take time away from work. Complicating matters is the fact that Sherlock is off on a bender and cannot be located. Takes place in 2007, two years before ASiP.

Author's Notes: I have much more written on this piece than is in evidence here, so the entirety of "The Rose Bed" should be posted within two weeks. And while this piece (arguably a novella, OMG) works perfectly well as a standalone, I do intend it to be a sort of lengthy prologue to a novel-length series I'm calling the "Tree of Life" arc, which will include several slash pairings, and which you can read more about in my post here. Updates should be weekly or very close thereunto, so please jump on board--I think you'll really enjoy the series! And if you do, please feel free to pimp it EVERYWHERE!

Also, if you like it, please do take a moment to leave a comment! It's good for the fic writer's soul, as many of you no doubt know! Furthermore, if you are a visual artist in any way inspired by anything in the upcoming Tree of Life series, please contact me and and maybe we can collaborate. I would LOVE that!

Read the first part of "The Rose Bed" at my journal!

FIC: If You Can't Move Heaven, Raise Hell [7/?]

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Title: If You Can't Move Heaven, Raise Hell
Author: Alex
Fandom: Sherlock [BBC]
Rating: Varies
Pairing: Sherlock/John; Sherlock/Ian Adler; John Watson/Ian Adler; Jim Moriarty/Sebastian Moran
Disclaimer: A.C. Doyle, Moffat, Gatiss.
Summary: All John Watson wants is a peaceful fortnight's holiday in Cornwall. Fate has other plans, to wit:

1. An abbey in the Italian Alps
2. Murder
3. Mayhem
4. Criminals he has known and would rather forget
5. Bondage
6. Sex
7. Sherlock

Not necessarily in that order.

So much for Cornwall.

Warnings: Violence, explicit sex, dubious consent.
Notes: I don't genderswap as a rule, but I saw this marvelous gif of Tom Hiddleston and Sherlock and couldn't resist. The rest is shameless self-indulgence.

There is definitely going to be dubious consent in the story - how dubious I'm not yet sure, but I will change the warnings if need be. If this poses a difficulty with triggers, please be advised now that the warnings may change.

Plot happily magpied from everywhere, with especial apologies to Umberto Eco.

Thanks to kimberlite for the sharp-eyed beta.

This fic is a gift for sithdragn, with affection.

Can also be read on AO3

Chapter 7

fic - A little too normal

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Title: A little too normal
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: John Watson, Jim Moriarty
Word Count: 1,415
Rating: PG-13
A/N: AU after The Hounds of Baskerville and the events of Crimson splatters and Broken crown
Warnings: none
Summary: The answers you seek might not be the ones you want to hear.