Fic: Bel Canto - 9/16 (BBC Sherlock)

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Title: Bel Canto
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 9.3k out of 123.5ishk
Betas: vyctori, seijichan, lifeonmars
Disclaimer: Do not own.
Summary: After years of waiting for wealthy patrons to faint, Dr John Watson discovers a far more interesting patient in the opera house basement. (AU through a Phantom of the Opera lens.)
Warnings: Violence, internalized homophobia, eventual

Comments

[call_me_ishmael]

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[call_me_ishmael]

This chapter, man. The flashback and the reveal were so fucking amazing. I love how the curtain plays such a part in this scene and the last big Sherlock one.

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XD Thanks! As Sherlock says in the Great Game, "The curtain rises."

[siennis]

::SQUEALS::

Oh my god! Oh my GOD! OH MY GOD!

John knows! He knows now! Oh my god, I can't even think of what to say! Brilliant as always and oh, you cruel thing, you wretched tease! He KNOWS!

Oh fuck, shit is going to go DOWN!

...……

::whimpers:: Oh my god

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XD Thank you!

[illereyn]

Oh, goodness, what is John going to do?!!!

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John is going to John to the best of his ability.

[marici]

*mad laughter* Man, Sherlock, this could go spectacularly badly for you. I mean, it's great that you've been seducing John with both of your personas, and he's probably going to feel better about his eyes straying to Holmes when he loved Vernet, but first he's going to go spare about how much he's worried about each of you. Even Mrs. Hudson had better stay away for a bit -- Sherlock of course, is going to be running dead into the detonation, isn't he.

I don't think John's going to start out remembering how shattered Vernet was when he turned Sherlock down -- I think he'll feel like he's been a toy on Sherlock's string.

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Sherlock of course, is going to be running dead into the detonation, isn't he.

Does Sherlock run any other way?

I don't think John's going to start out remembering how shattered Vernet was when he turned Sherlock down -- I think he'll feel like he's been a toy on Sherlock's string.

You are very perceptive.

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Dandelions moment, then? (Thank you!)