storypaint

Title: wings but no feet
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 93 words
Prompt: 3 Sentence Ficathon: Elementary, Joan Watson, Sherlock, tortoises, dragons, and other reptilia
Pairing: Joan gen
Other: Also at AO3 (with sequels written by other people!).

Excerpt: "SHERLOCK!" she shouted; the creature chirruped at her, but the house was suspiciously silent.

( Read more... )

Title: run on the top of the dishevelled tide
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 279 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Elementary, Sherlock/Moriarty, Moriarty thinks of Sherlock as like a fairy tale princess - he is waiting to be woken up by Moriarty so his real life can begin
Pairing: Irene/Sherlock
Other: Set pre-series. Some drug references.

Excerpt: She can put a dozen poisons in a dozen apples, but it's worth nothing unless he takes a bite.

( Read more... )

Title: I stay with problems longer
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 100 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Elementary, Sherlock Holmes, tranquil fury [3 sentences]
Pairing: Sherlock/Irene
Other: Set pre-canon, spoilers for S1.

Excerpt: He is scariest when he is quiet, because that is when he's dangerous, and that is when Irene loves him the most (well, for a certain definition of "love").

( Read more... )

Title: always be chasing the sun
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 3147 words
Prompt: Written for yuletide_admin 2014 for footnoterphone, who wanted Joan to go back to medicine.
Pairing: Joan gen
Other: Some spoilers for S3 and a number of Arthur Conan Doyle canon references, along with some themes of disability. Also at AO3.

Excerpt: When Joan got out of the hospital, her leg aching and stiff, Sherlock put her up in the front room, saying that the windows would be good for her. She would rather have had her room back, which was more private, but she couldn't imagine negotiating the stairs all the time, not any more. That was why she hadn't gone back to her own apartment. A lot of things would have to change, at least temporarily.

( Read more... )

Title: could end in burning flames or paradise
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 552 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Elementary, Sherlock/Joan, mystery solvers club.
Pairing: Sherlock and Joan gen
Other: College AU!

Excerpt: Joan and Sherlock have already had several talks about his habit of volunteering her for things, especially after he got her student ID and cracked her email password. She knows he thinks he can annoy her enough that she goes away. So far she hasn't. She likes seeing her amount of student debt decreasing slowly but steadily. But days like this, she really thinks about throwing in the towel.

( Read more... )

Title: to kisskiss you and to kiss me
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 599 words
Prompt: Sherlock/Joan, kiss.
Pairing: Sherlock/Joan
Other: Set at some nebulous AU point after S2.

Excerpt: He is not very good at kissing, and somehow that's endearing. Oh, but she has gotten in way too deep with Sherlock Holmes. His teeth clack against hers and he mutters, "Sorry," before attacking her lips again. Joan shivers.

( Read more... )

Title: glory streams
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 334 words
Prompt: Elementary Christmas fic for rainfelt.
Pairing: Joan gen
Other: No spoilers for S3.

Excerpt: Angus gets a bright red hat and Joan is sitting at the table, going through old files for a lead, when Clyde pops out from behind another stack of books. There is a bow stuck to his shell.

( Read more... )

Title: disguised by sobriety
Fandom: A:TLA/Elementary
Length: 1117 words
Prompt: intoabar: Toph Bei Fong goes into a bar and meets... Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)!
Pairing: Toph and Sherlock gen
Other: Fusion fic: Toph in Sherlock's world.

Excerpt: "I'm older than I look," she says. "Do you want to play a game? First one's free."

She might be a little older than she looks, but she can't be twenty-one. Her build suggests later childhood, early puberty perhaps. She doesn't watch the cups as she moves them, which bothered him until he realized she was blind.

"No thanks," he says, adjusting his collar.

( Read more... )

Title: in her postscript
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 100 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Elementary, Joan/Moriarty, work of art
Pairing: slight Joan/Moriarty
Other: Set post S2.

Excerpt: Moriarty sends Joan sketches from prison.

( Read more... )

Title: one fixed point
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 4370 words
Prompt: Yuletide 2013: The years go by and they stay together, for treble.
Pairing: Joan & Sherlock gen
Other: Minor spoilers for 2x24 The Grand Experiment. There is some implied violence and death, but nothing very detailed.

Excerpt: Sherlock and Joan through the years. Several years pass (regularly interrupted by the four weeks of vacation time Sherlock added to her compensation package). Sherlock doesn't pick the lock to her apartment anymore, not since she called the police last time and Gregson sent someone out to talk to him. The tide goes out, the tide comes back.

( Read more... )