Entries tagged with holmes:pairing:john/mary

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[Sherlock Holmes] no more intrepid explorer (Mary/Jane, Shirley/Irene)

Title: no more intrepid explorer
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 787 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: modernverse; Shirley, Jane, Irene, and Mary; The Adventure of the Wailing Door
Pairing: slight Mary/Jane, Shirley/Irene, mostly gen
Other: Set in a modern AU-verse where both Holmes and Watson are women who started their partnership in college.

Excerpt: Irene is restless. She's been restless from the first moment, and no amount of whispered reproach can stop her from shifting whenever she thinks she has a moment. It's driving Shirley crazy, and Watson can't help from being the tiniest bit amused. See, Jane thinks to herself, very quietly, your girlfriend is not a top investigator either.

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[Sherlock Holmes] it's been you all along (Holmes/Watson)

Title: it's been you all along
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 817 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: steampunkverse, Holmes/Watson (or Watson/Holmes), "The Last Time" by Taylor Swift
Pairing: John/Mary and John/Shirley
Other: Set in an AU-verse where Sherlock was born Shirley, but the setting is (mostly) retained with some occasional steampunk elements that don't show up in this fic. This is an infidelity scenario.

Excerpt: The snow was blowing furiously past the window when Shirley heard familiar footsteps on the chair. Watson didn't bother knocking -- really, he never did nowadays. He probably thought she wouldn't let him in.

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[Sherlock Holmes] horse sense (Jane/Mary)

Title: horse sense
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 729 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: modernverse, any character, 'less QQ more pew-pew'
Pairing: Jane/Mary & Shirley gen
Other: Set in a modern AU-verse where both Holmes and Watson are women who started their partnership in college.

Excerpt: "You've kidnapped my girlfriend, Holmes," Watson said as she unlocked their door and she came in to the room. She was unaccompanied by said girlfriend, a rare sight these days, and flopped down on her back on her neatly made bed.

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[Sherlock Holmes] progressively unnecessary (Mary/Jane)

Title: progressively unnecessary
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 486 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: any universe, any Mary Morstan, five things
Pairing: Mary/Jane, implied Shirley/Jane
Other: Set in a modern AU-verse where both Holmes and Watson are women who started their partnership in college.

Excerpt: Mary is quiet. She's an only child, her father gone for long stints in the Navy, and she's grown up with various childless aunts who didn't really know how to handle her. She rose to the call by being quiet, humble, and mature at a young age. The aunts called her an angel, but passed her around between them like they were playing cards.

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