02:22 amNothing But What God Gave You by lettered (PG)
Fandom: SHERLOCK BBC Pairing: John, girl!Sherlock Length: 2,300 Author on LJ:lettered Author Website:Master List on LJ Why this must be read:
The key to this rec is that lettered writes girl!Sherlock so brilliantly, your jaw will drop. John is very casual about trying not to be attracted to her, but you can imagine what it must be like for the poor bloke when she's wandering around half-clothed and being inscrutable and incredibly brilliant. Read, and marvel:
Fandom: TORCHWOOD Pairing(s)/Character(s): Jack/Ianto, the Doctor Length: ~11 000 words Author on LJ:angstslashhope Author Website:hope.oscillating.net / AO3 Why this must be read:
Accidents with alien techology and minor paradoxes are inevitable when you work for Torchwood. Sometimes that works in your favour.
Excerpt:It's an envelope. And it's addressed to him. In Cardiff, no less.
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He remembers. Remembers Ianto's reaction when they had found it, Ianto's fearful desperation that he had managed to quite adeptly mask, but still, Jack knew. It wasn't often that Ianto demanded promises from him. And it was more that than anything that made Jack keep it—well, of course Jack would keep it; but made him keep it close, and—
He thought it'd been destroyed. He'd kept it in his coat pocket, but this was not that coat; Ianto must have… Must have pinched it from him, and the sound of Jack's own laughter echoing into the room startles him; he swipes a shaky hand over his brow.
And turns the envelope over. And slides his thumbs into the open edges of the flap, the paper giving easily, soft from millennia of wear, yielding to Jack's gentle urging.
Fandom: STAR WARS Pairing: None Length: Short Author on LJ: n/a. Author Website: n/a. Why this must be read:
This story gives us a stormtrooper's POV on the meeting of Vader and Luke on Endor before Luke is taken to the Emperor. The main characters are not Luke and Vader, but the stormtrooper, who is not a detached observer. I love the use of POV here.