Fandom: SHERLOCK BBC
Pairing: Sherlock/Victor Trevor, Sherlock/John
Length: 4500 words
Author on LJ: I don't know
Author Website: AO3 fic
Why this must be read:
Of the ACD canon figures who have not appeared in the BBC version, I have a particular fondness for Victor Trevor, Sherlock Holmes's college friend. In "The Adventure of Gloria Scott," Sherlock spends a month with Victor at the Trevor estate in Norfolk, and a bit later solves the mystery of Trevor's father's death. Baby's first case! Or, to quote the master, "the first in which I was ever engaged."

Of course, it's too tempting to cast Victor in the role of first lover as well, good or evil or recurrent, making John squinty-eyed with jealousy. This is one of the better versions of Victor as the teens-to-early-twenties friend who sees Sherlock through a number of first encounters. The mystery has nothing to do with the original story (Gloria Scott was a ship there; here she's a medical worker), but fits in well. The friendship is convincing and this Victor is more compassionate than sticky. I still have issues with the show's distortion of "memory palace" operation, but you eat a peck of dirt and tell a thousand lies before you die. If you like minor characters, backstory, young Sherlock, and incidental sex and case-solving, give this a try.

( a taste )

Gloria Scott, or Why Alone Protects Me

Fandom: SHERLOCK BBC
Characters: Sherlock & John
Length: About 1100 words
Author on LJ: istne_pieklo
Author Website: FanFiction.net~Shaitanah and Fic Masterlist on LJ
Why you should read this:
Another favorite of mine is narration by inanimate--or often, in the case of Sherlock fic, formerly animate--objects.
This nicely creepy, slightly ghoulish story, is a short series of glimpses of life chez 221-B through the sensibility of the flat's other inhabitants. It's pleasingly odd.

( a taste )

Onlookers

Fandom: SHERLOCK BBC
Characters: Sherlock/John
Length: 8223 words
Author on LJ: cesperanza
Author Website: Speranza's Fiction
Why you should read this:
Brilliant dialogue, entertaining wordplay. Far too many puns about hands (but puns are always too much). Also adventure, also blood, also UST, also sex by surrogate, Molly's wayward but sensible brother inna sex club, crackling Sherlock-Mycroft animosity, crosswords, pickle, and rather nice John.

( a taste )

Fandom: SHERLOCK BBC
Characters: Mycroft, Sherlock, John (as children, age 11, 5, and 8)
Length: 3490
Author on LJ: emungere
Author Website: Consequence Free
Why this must be read:
I realized I've recced mostly Sherlock/John so far, so this is a bit of Gen. It's well done. There's a whiff of the Sign of Four, with its map and treasure and a buried past. It's a scene from Mycroft and Sherlock's childhood, when they meet the young John Watson in the park and play Pirates together, on Sherlock's birthday. Meeting John's not exactly the point of the story, though. It's three boys, being boys. It's a very good young Mycroft being Mycroft under (rather melodramatic) trying circumstances, too adult for his years but still thinking like a child. It has a bit of an Awful Family past for the brothers, but there's a dead toad, too, which is always good for a laugh.

The Sign of Three