Fic: With Trembling Hands

[armchair_elvis]

Title: With Trembling Hands
Length/size: 1,200 words
Rating: PG
Warnings, kinks & contents: Slight mentions of drug use. Gen. Mycroft, Mrs. Hudson, and Sherlock. (And the Cold War).
Author's/artist's notes: Regrettably un-betaed. Written for the commfest challenge at sherlockbbc LJ AO3

Summary/description: Sherlock is a black sheep, and Mrs. Hudson understands.


It is a long cold war. London is mini skirts and free love, but Century House seems stuck in an earlier time. The men smell of smoke and brandy. Martha remembers the darned socks and the fish and chip teas of her childhood.

This is not an easy place to work, the other secretaries tell her. They refer to themselves as "girls," — they are never more than that.

Darling, the men call her, and love, and occasionally sweetheart. They leave tea trays on her desk, cigarette butts floating in the curdled dregs. She is privy to the most extraordinary secrets, spoken in elevators while she stands demure and invisible in the corner.

Read the rest at my journal.

The Burial of the Dead Chapter 7

[quarryquest]

Title: The Burial of the Dead.
Characters/Pairings: John/Sherlock (still separated by events at this point), Molly, Greg, Mycroft, Mrs Hudson
Rating: PG 13 for swearing
Disclaimer: Certainly don't own the boys, but am borrowing them for a moment to play with them. Will return them unharmed.
Summary: After his best friend jumped of the roof of Barts John Watson realises that, despite his confusion, he has to stop mourning and make sense of everything. Meanwhile Sherlock is doing his best to return to his old life and his flatmate, but he's coming across problems he really didn't expect he would encounter.
Warnings (as wisely suggested by natsuko1978) for depression triggers and unhelpful therapists.

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six

New chapter here:

Chapter Seven