Onlookers, by Shaitahah (PG-13)

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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:
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The blood-red apple with letters carved into its side misses its fairytale. It has the inherent knowledge that most red apples possess: it was meant for more than a madman’s knife. It was meant for a princess’s ruby lips and pearl-white teeth, it was meant to put her in deep sleep that only a kiss can cure. Instead, it had a chunk bitten out of it and the white gap in the red peel is slowly turning brown.

John picks up the apple and examines it with vague distaste.

“That’s an interesting IOU,” he notes. Something bubbles underneath that deceptively calm exterior. Sherlock pretends not to see it. “How long till he’s coming after you?”

The apple feels dry and incomplete, but the strain in John’s voice gives it hope that it could still be poisonous.
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Onlookers