A Holmesian Solstice

Title: Strange Chase
Recipient: tepidspongebath
Author: trobadora
Verse: A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman
Characters/Pairings: James Moriarty, Sebastian Moran
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Additional tags: Book: The Sign of the Four, Story: The Adventure of the Yellow Face, Moriarty's pursuit of Holmes
Summary: There we were, chasing down the busy dusk-time street, the mongrel with its nose to the pavement fairly dragging us along - but I'm getting ahead of myself. I should say something about how it came about.

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Title: Vengeance I Get
Recipient: afteriwake
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Elementary (crossover with Castle)
Characters: Joan Watson, Sebastian Moran, Kitty Winter, Kate Beckett, Sherlock Holmes, Chris Stoltz, Richard Castle, Alexis Castle
Pairings: N/A
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Moran is a good guy here.
Summary: Teamwork may make the dream work, as the saying goes, and it also makes things entertaining.


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Title and Author: The Adventure of the House That Was Not Empty, by ancientreader
Link to Story: The Adventure of the House That Was Not Empty
Recipient: ancientreader
Podfic Reader: rachelindeed
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Sebastian Moran
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Sebastian Moran, matchmaker. AU.

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Title: A Million Shades of Green
Recipient: monkiainen
Author: dryadinthegrove
Verse: ACD Canon
Characters/Pairings: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Sebastian Moran, James Moriarty, Victor Trevor
Rating: PG13, AU, Different First Meeting
Warnings: Graphic depictions of death (nothing that you wouldn't see in a movie or on tv)
Summary: It was a close thing; had I not tripped on a strangler vine, I would have been speared through the gut.

Also on AO3: A Million Shades of Green

( A Million Shades of Green )

Title: Howl
Recipient: autumnatmidnite
Author: sherlockholmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Lestrade, Sebastian Moran, John Watson.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Some graphic violence. Werewolves
Summary: A retelling of The Empty House. With Werewolves. Special thanks to D. Martin Dakin for noticing the inaccuracies in Sherlock’s “grand hiatus” story, as well as C. Alan Bradley & William A. S. Sarjeant for their insight. musamihi for being my ever-faithful cheerleader and beta-reader and buckybear for her enthusiasm -- and for giving my practice, writing for Watson.
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( While I lacked my friend’s astute ability to observe, I was not without my own talent to notice )

Title:  In the Forests of the Night
Recipient:  autumnatmidnite
Author: [to be revealed]
Universe: BBC
Characters/Pairings: John Watson,( ”spoilers” )
Rating: PG
Word Count:  8942
Warnings: (ACD canon, so speculative) apparent and actual character death, violence, descriptions of war, speculation as to Season 2 of Sherlock. Spoilers for ACD canon, esp. FINA and EMPT, with spoilery inferences from Season 2 promotional titles and pictures. Also warning for not-very-nice!Mycroft.
Summary: When Sherlock Holmes dies, he doesn’t just take Jim Moriarty and half of London’s biggest crime syndicate with him – he takes the battlefield. And John does miss it; so much so that he re-enlists and is re-deployed to Afghanistan, under Mycroft Holmes’s recommendation, as an army sniper. Still coming to terms with his loss, he encounters another lieutenant who’s recently lost a commanding officer, and unwittingly forms the most dangerous comradeship of his life. War is not a study in black and white, and loyalties are not so easily defined – especially when the most dangerous man John has ever met is working each and all from behind the scenes.
Disclaimer:  BBC, Gatiss, Moffat, etc. own the characters and show concepts as well as the Doctor Who reference. William Blake owns the poem from which the title is taken.  I own the speculation and writing style.  :P

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( In the Forests of the Night )