FIC: "The Choke Pear"

[basingstoke]

Title: The Choke Pear

Fandom: Sherlock/Black Books

Sequel to "Cartilage."

Thanks to jacquez, Derry, mific, and evildrem for beta and britpicking. Without my readers I would have some embarrassingly egregious errors.

Comments

[darthhellokitty]

[lurkslikefox]

I don't think I could make a reply more apt than this.

[ursabee]

This series contains both my favorite Sherlock, and my favorite Black Books universe of all times (and in the latter case, was the reason I got into Black Books originally), so I was really excited to see you bring back some BB characters, even though your interpretation of the Holmes family alone is fascinating enough to fill volumes.

I love how Sherlock inadvertently comes around to following John's advice in the end ("just be her friend, she won't know what to do with it")-- even though, to me, any way, he doesn't seem to demonstrably see it that way; as following advice, so really, it's more like John is proven right, though it might take him pointing that out for Sherlock to ever realize it--and how spot on he is: Wollstonecraft really is completely disarmed for a moment there by Sherlock's beneficence over the flaying incident, and the whole series of rows leading up to it (although I think part of it is just that Wollstonecraft doesn't have a sufficiently nuanced understanding of how Sherlock derives pleasure from the world,

[talitha78]

Fantastic!!!

[fieryredqueen]

This is just magnificent in every way.

[cloudtrader]

This was particularly awesome. So much fun!