Fic: Read our futures in the rising steam (masterpost)

[xzombiexkittenx]

Title: Read our futures in the rising steam
Author: xzombiexkittenx
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Drug use, post-mortem descriptions of rape/murder victims, non-graphic torture
Spoilers: Seasons one and two
Word count: ~22 000 words
Summary: I’ve been calling this “case!fic sexy-tiemz between a straight man and an asexual man, now with added Big Brother Mycroft, cocaine, and vivisection!” in my head. It’s like a really bad elevator pitch.
Disclaimer: These incarnations belong to the Beeb, Moffat and Gatiss. All businesses mentioned belong to their respective owners and I have no idea what their security is like. Title from the poem “Vivisection” by Leo Durrant.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three


Vivisection
by Leo Durrant

this love is a
warm-blooded
animal

but go ahead
study it

cut it open and watch the
blood rush out
to see what patterns
it makes in the dust

let the intestines
fall where they may
so
like Isaiah's
peeping wizards
you can read
our futures
in the rising
steam
and
visceral stench

just remember

when you're done
and you sew it
back up

and you've ascertained
with a certainty
that nothing is
certain

you can't bring it
back to life