Fic: Bel Canto - 15/16 (BBC Sherlock)

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Title: Bel Canto
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 4.7k out of 127k
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, character death

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[rachelindeed]

Zucco’s voice comes abruptly from John’s right. John fights down the urge to aim his gun on the far wall. “I’ll admit, it is a disappointment you keep surviving.

Mr. Bond, you have a nasty habit of surviving.

The confrontation/throttling/Reichenbach struggle are so realistically and frighteningly done. Wow. Also, I love revisiting the idea of Vernet's voice in the dark.

It’s a quiet sound, a nearly silent snicker. It is, without question, the most charming, most comforting, warmest sound Holmes has ever made, be it through voice or bow. John loves it utterly. There is nothing to do but to love it utterly.

<3 <3

(I don't know if this was intentional, but that reminded me very much of one of my favorite tidbits of description Watson writes about Holmes, in The Blue Carbuncle: "A few yards off he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless fashion which was peculiar to him.")

Holmes breathes as if he has only now surfaced from beneath the water.

<3 <3

It will be difficult to drag Holmes to safety at this rate

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(I don't know if this was intentional, but that reminded me very much of one of my favorite tidbits of description Watson writes about Holmes, in The Blue Carbuncle: "A few yards off he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless fashion which was peculiar to him.")

Oh, nope, that wasn't deliberate. That bit was based on the way BBC Sherlock often does this silently grinning thing while John laughs aloud.

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