John's Fairy Godfather by Flawedamythyst

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Fandom: SHERLOCK BBC
Pairing: John Watson/Greg Lestrade
Length: 11,289 words
Author on LJ: flawedamythyst
Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read: What the title says - Sherlock is John's fairy godfather in this hysterically funny Cinderella AU. And all the funnier because Sherlock is totally Sherlock, even when wielding a wand and promising John a True Love and Happily Ever After.

Getting down onto your hands and knees in order to scrub a floor is awkward and painful when you have a psychosomatic pain in your leg and a shoulder with a bullet in it, but John was damned if that meant he was just going to live with a dirty kitchen floor. Besides, it wasn't as if he had anything else left to clean, and he was bored. He'd been bored since he'd got back to London and discovered just how dull 'real life' was after a warzone.

All of which was why he was on one knee with his dodgy leg stretched out in front of him, scrubbing out the mysterious brown stain a previous tenant had left behind and swearing quietly under his breath when he first met Sherlock. There was a shower of glitter, a faint ringing sound, and then there was suddenly a man in the kitchen with John, wearing a designer suit and a long black coat.

John let out a startled noise and fell backwards onto his arse. “Bloody fucking hell!”

The man blinked at him. “Not the reaction I was expecting,” he said, “but I suppose it will do.”

“Who the buggering fuck are you, and what the hell are you doing in my kitchen?” asked John, struggling to get to his feet.

The man held out a hand to help him up which John reluctantly, distrustfully took rather than spend the next five minutes flailing about on the floor.

“My name is Sherlock Holmes,” said the man, and then he left a dramatic pause before adding, “I'm your fairy godfather.”

John stared at him. “You're my what?”

John's Fairy Godfather