Comments | aurora_boreali: Fiction: Tell Me a Story

aurora_boreali

Fiction: Tell Me a Story

Dec 01, 2011 23:40

Title: Tell Me a Story

Rating: PG

Pairings: John/Sherlock

Warnings: None

Word Count: 2,000

Summary: Sherlock is eight years old and sick in bed. His mother's writing him a story. Sherlock's future relationship with John Watson is implied. Romantic slash can be inferred from the context, but feel free to read as friendship only.
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rating: pg, friendship, sherlock holmes, bbc sherlock, fan fiction, pairing: john/sherlock

Comments 29

therandomgirlie December 2 2011, 12:56:29 UTC

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE.
This was so awesome. I did actually laugh a little - not because it was especially funny - but just because a couple of months ago we studied the Iliad in Classical Civilisation. I'd been kind of bored, and then my teacher brought up the fact that Achilles and Patroclus were thought to have been lovers.
Did my interest increase after she mentioned this? Oh yes.
Did I make a fool of myself with flailing hands and giggling? Double yes.
Did I squeal and flail and giggle when you mentioned them in here? TRIPLE YES.

Anyway. Yes. Incredibly awesome. Going to have a smile on my face for ages now! :D

aurora_boreali December 3 2011, 03:11:22 UTC

What a fun coincidence! Love when stuff like that happens. I have to admit that most of what I know about the story came from the Wikipedia article I read a couple days ago. I should probably go ahead and read the original. Someday. Glad this story put a smile on your face. Comparing Sherlock and John to a pair of famous lover/warriors from Ancient Greece put a smile on my face too!

eglantine_br December 2 2011, 13:09:13 UTC

You have written something that is so rare-- that feeling when you read it, of something clicking into place, and you think: It Must Have Been So.

And, of course, I can so easily see him: small, squirmy, fevery Sherlock.

aurora_boreali December 3 2011, 03:22:14 UTC

Thank you very much. Such wonderful praise. I fall in love with analogies all the time and am very pleased when I'm able to use them in a way that works for the reader. So glad this one worked for you.

londonsabre December 2 2011, 19:56:47 UTC

Lovely! I do hope you do a future fic where Sherlock meets John for the first time and recognises him as Patroclus!

aurora_boreali December 3 2011, 03:32:38 UTC

Originally I thought the last scene would be just that, the older Sherlock now understanding the significance of Achilles' loss now that he has his own Patroclus to lose. But then I decided on the "up" ending of a child having a beautiful dream of having a perfect companion who will never die before him. Can't see revisiting this--said all I know. But someone else may have an idea. That would be very cool. Thanks for the kind words.

talimenios79 December 2 2011, 23:40:14 UTC

This was lovely.

aurora_boreali December 3 2011, 03:33:21 UTC

Thank you very much.

antesqueluz December 3 2011, 00:50:20 UTC

This is so lovely. I especially love your characterization of Mummy Holmes and the family dynamics. Seems so right.

aurora_boreali December 3 2011, 03:42:59 UTC

I did like the idea that Sherlock and Mycroft came from a family of bright, very independent thinkers but not outright geniuses. And adult Sherlock seems very comfortable, even loving in his way, with John and Mrs. H, so it makes sense to me that he enjoyed a close, loving family growing up. Other than that, let's just say I have a lot to draw from when writing about mothers of children that age. ;)
Thanks for the lovely comment!