saki101

Welcome to my index. Almost all the stories here are from a slash perspective, some might be characterised as pre-slash and some have het aspects. Ratings vary. Genre and ratings, as well as length, warnings and disclaimers (where applicable), are included in the headers of the individual stories.

Links from the index are to various LJ communities or to my LJ [many headers also have links to Archive of Our Own (AO3)], none are to fanfiction.net. Bit by bit, I'll be changing the LJ links to DW ones.

If you proceed to reading, I hope you enjoy them. Feedback is very much appreciated.

Stories are grouped by fandom and listed alphabetically in each. Related stories are listed together.

Man From U.N.C.L.E.
A Single Alif	Après-Ski Affair, The
- A Single Alif revised version of Down the Chimney 2011 post	- The Après-Ski Affair revised version of Down the Chimney 2012 post
Blue Diamonds	Conversion
-Original Easter Egg 2010 - Expansion of Easter Egg: Blue Diamonds - Black Sapphires - Baroque Pearls - Part I - Baroque Pearls - Part II - Baroque Pearls - Part III (WIP)	- Conversion Easter Egg 2013
D	Episode-related Vignettes
- Dill Valentine 2011 - Dragon's Egg Easter Egg 2016	- Envy (Seven Sins Challenge) - Recollecting - Reflections on 'The Sound of Rain' Halloween Challenge 2011 - The Touch of Butterflies - Unblemished - When the Cherries Bloom - Something That Belongs To Me Chapter 1 of the 50th Anniversary Slash Round Robin at MFUWSS (June 2014)
Kohl	Lecture Hall
- Original Easter Egg 2011 - Continuation of Easter Egg 2011	- Lecture Hall Valentine 2011
Overtures (and related stories)	Power
- Overtures - Without a Word - Bare Hands Valentine 2011	- Power Summer Solstice 2011
Rosebay Affair, The	S
- The Rosebay Affair: Part I - The Rosebay Affair: Part II - The Rosebay Affair: Part III Easter Egg 2012 - Kintsugi (The Rosebay Affair: Part IV) Easter Egg 2014 - Magnetic Midnight (The Rosebay Affair: Part 4.5) Easter Egg 2015 - Evolution (The Rosebay Affair: Part V) MFU50 MiniBang 2014	(Inspired by the Seven Sins Challenge) - Silent Monologue Original in English plus Irish translation - Shards 2021 MFUWSS Easter Egg Challenge
Third	Through the Invisible
- Third: Part I (Easter Egg 2010) - Third: Part II - Third: Part III - Palme d'Or - Third: Leitmotifs (Back story - WIP)	(AU, Down the Chimney 2009) - Through the Invisible: Volume I (revised version of DtC post) - Through the Invisible: Volume II (WIP)
Treasures	Untying the Knot
(Down the Chimney 2010, cross-over) - Treasures: revised version	- Untying the Knot
	Other Fandoms
Watching Series	Vortices
- Watching - Fair Warning - Kintsugi Easter Egg 2014 (which combines threads from Fair Warning and from The Rosebay Affair)	(WIP, AU, Torchwood/The Forms of Things Unknown cross-over) - Vortices This section can stand alone or be read as Part I of the continuing story. (links to the next section are at the end of each part) - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI - Part VII
	Original
The Bells	Retro
(AU, Violent Playground/The Bells cross-over) - The Bells	(WIP, friends locked) - Retro: Part I (links to the next section are at the end of each part) - Part II - Part III - Part IVa - Part IVb - Part V
Sherlock
Experiments Series	Other Experiments Series
- Part I: Zygomata - Part II: You Follow Me Down Other Roads - Part IIIa: Untitled Document - Part IIIb: C# Minor - Part IV: Unwritten Notes - Part V: Chimera - Part VIa: Locked Rooms (beginning) - Part VIb: Locked Rooms (conclusion) - Part VII: Silk Road Holmestice December 2012 (may also be read as a stand-alone)	(Pre-Season 1 though post-Season 2, AU) - Sometimes - Index of Coincidence - Call and Answer - Closing the Back Door (To read OES and ES as one narrative, insert the Experiments Series stories here) - Immunology - Fevers - If I Caught You - Original Research - Primary Sources - Bibliography - Uncalibrated Measurements - Blood Samples - Fading to Sand - Night View from the Mind Palace - Haematology - Afire - Haploid - There Are Times When the Stars Are Too Close - Nighttide - Stone Mirror - Scintillation - Carbonado (A Mystrade thread following on from the opening scene may be read here.) - Frail Blue - Correspondence - Icarus Clipped - Reliquary (beginning) - Reliquary (conclusion) - Aberdeen to Euston June 2013 Holmestice story - Revisionist December 2012 Sherlockmas story, which can also be read as a stand-alone (More files from John's flashdrive may be read here.) - Leaf Fall - Moats - Ransom June 2014 Holmestice Exchange
Files From a Flashdrive	The Eagle in the Oak
- Revisionist December 2012 Sherlockmas story (May be read as a stand alone or as part of OES where it would fit in after Aberdeen to Euston.) - White Satin, Silver Sequins Sherlockmas July 2013. (May be read as a stand alone or as part of OES where it would fit in after Revisionist.) - White Satin, Silver Sequins (a continuation). (Needs to be read as a pair with White Satin, Silver Sequins.) - Moats (May be read as a stand alone or as part of OES where it would fit in after Leaf Fall.) - Ransom (A sequel to Moats) June 2014 Holmestice Exchange	(A Mystrade thread that runs parallel to and occasionally intertwines with the OES series. For placement within the chronology of the series, see Carbonado in the OES listing above.) - Carbonado (first scene only) - We're Sorry For Any Inconvenience Sherlockmas Summer Prompt Fest 2013 - Necropolis Spook-Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon 2013 - Ex Libris A brief scene between Necropolis and Safer - Safer December 2013 Holmestice Exchange - Rue Morgue A short vignette which would have occurred sometime during the early part of Safer - Seat Assignment: Open Let's Write Sherlock Challenge 13-Vacation Getaway June 2014 - Surveillance a continuation of Seat Assignment: Open
Sherlock Metafiction Series	Meta
(A collection of metafiction: musings in the first person, from the viewpoints of different characters, about developments in Series Three and how they connect with events in the previous series.) - John's Meta: Your Life and Mine - John's Meta: Dressing Wounds - Mycroft's Meta: Time to Choose A Side - Sherlock's Meta: The Tell-Tale Heart	(An actual meta!) - Facets
Series 3/post-Series 3/Series 4/Unaired Pilot Stories	Sherlock - Magical AUs
- In Arduis Fidelis Come at Once Challenge: Round 4 - June/July 2014 - Milk - Red (a sequel to Milk) - Rain (a sequel to Red) - Coloured Pencils December 2015 Holmestice Exchange - I Thought It Was You (Series 4) - Blades (Unaired Pilot) Come at Once Challenge: Round 8 - June 2018	- This First Summer Month That Brings the Rose Spook-Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon 2014 - Lepidoptera Spook-Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon 2015 - Give Me Fire & Epilogue Come at Once Challenge: Round 6 - February/March 2016 - Penumbra March Miniseries 2016 Challenge at Fall TV Season Sherlock - Pale Horse - Metamorphosis Spook-Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon 2016 - Penumbra (Series Two) April Miniseries 2017 Challenge at Fall TV Season Sherlock - Penumbra (Summer mini-episode) - Penumbra (Winter Special) 2020 Advent Ficlet Challenge - The Flight of the Swans Spook-Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon 2020 - Penumbra (Autumn Special) Spook-Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon 2024
Sherlock - Historical AU	Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Salisbury Plain December 2014 Holmestice Exchange - Fifty Shillings Come at Once Challenge: Round 5 February/March 2015 (Victorian Sherlock setlock crossover with ACD)	- The Apothecaries’ Garden ACD Holmesfest Gift Exchange November 2014 - Fifty Shillings Come at Once Challenge: Round 5 February/March 2015 (crossover with Victorian Sherlock setlock) - Signs and Signals ACD Holmesfest Gift Exchange May 2015 - Over Park, Over Pale June 2015 Holmestice Exchange - He's Not Here 2020 ACDHolmesfest - Infinite Variety 2020 June Holmestice
Frankenstein	Skyfall
Homo Faber	In This Fragile Cage of Bone Series
(An AU Frankenstein/Sherlock fusion written for Springlock 2014) - Homo Faber: Part I - Homo Faber: Part II	(AU. Also influenced by earlier Bond movies and books as well as BW's performances in The Tempest, Richard II, Hamlet, Bright Star, Criminal Justice and The Hour.) - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV

Title: ♢ ♧ ♤ ♡
Author: saki101
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mrs Hudson
Rating: Mature
Genre: Urban fantasy
Warnings: No warnings apply
Summary: An odd, little slice of life on Baker Street. (A sequel to Blades, although each may be read as a stand alone fic.)
A/N: Written for the 2021 Summer Holmestice Exchange where lots of other Sherlock Holmes fic, art, video and podcasts may be found!

(Any references to incidents in the later episodes of Sherlock do not imply that any major plot points in those episodes happened in this universe, although small incidents and bits of conversation may have.)

On AO3


Image source: Jan Jansz van de Velde - Glasses, Smoking Implements, and Cards - 1653.jpg WikiCommons

Title: Penumbra (Winter Special)
Author: saki101
Rating: R
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John, Mrs Hudson, Mrs Turner, Wiggins, Greg Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, OCs
Word Count: ~41.7K (Chapters 38/38)
Summary: Autumn has faded into winter. As the days grow shorter, Holmeswood Manor celebrates the solstice.
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock BBC nor Dark Shadows belong to me.
A/N: Written in a series of short chapters to the prompts of the 2020 Advent Ficlet Challenge and taking as inspiration the John and Sherlock of the Unaired Pilot.

Another instalment of the Penumbra series, which is a gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the 1966 television series).

Preview: In Maine, there was Collinwood and the three centuries of history that were woven into its walls. In London, there is Holmeswood Manor (or the Manor on Baker Street as the urban legends have it), tucked now into a city street when once its oak woods rolled from the heath to the river.

Series One Overview: John grew up with its stories of ghosts and wizards and things that hunt in the night. They didn’t keep him from interviewing for a residential post at the Manor because he couldn’t afford London on an army pension and there could not possibly have been any truth to the tales.

Series Two Overview: It's been more than a year since John came to live at the Manor on Baker Street. He has learned many things, one being that the stories hadn't prepared him for the half of it.

Summer Mini-episode: A glimpse of life in the season after the ball.

Winter Special: The winter solstice approaches. John's knowledge of the Manor and himself expands.

***
Excerpt: I turned back to the window. “I don’t recall this last year. Were we away?” I leaned out. The breeze was sharp. The sound of bells louder.

“No. I told you this summer that you were changing.”
 

***

Posted on AO3.

Photo source material: A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels by Louis Comfort Tiffany, a public domain work of art from Google Art Project, Wikipedia Commons. (More information may be found here.)

Title: The Flight of the Swans
Author: saki101
Rating: PG-13
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John
Word Count: 23.6K
Summary: A prospective client has observed things that make her doubt her sanity. She wants Sherlock to uncover the truth. As John discovers, Sherlock is uniquely qualified to investigate her case.
Disclaimer: Sherlock BBC does not belong to me.

Excerpt: Morning would come. Dreams would go.

Posted on AO3.

Photo source: Wiki Commons with link to Creative Commons Licence Image has been modified.

Title: Penumbra (Summer mini-episode)
Author: saki101
Rating: E
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John
Word Count: ~800 words
Summary: London is having a heat wave. The solution for such things at Holmeswood Manor predates electricity by a very, very long time.
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock BBC nor Dark Shadows belong to me.

Excerpt: Sleep slid away. I reached out towards the other, often empty, side of the bed. My fingers found the cool curves of my bedfellow and I smiled.

Posted on AO3.

Photo source: Wikipedia Commons

Title: He’s Not Here
Author: saki101
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~7.9K
Warnings: consideration of the apparent death of Holmes, canon typical mention of off-stage death of minor characters
Summary: Holmes learns more about how Watson felt after the Reichenbach Fall, and what Watson did about it.
Disclaimer: Public domain (at least all the ACD story elements referenced herein)
A/N: Written for the 2020 ACDHolmesfest.




Excerpt: “Where did you get a photograph of me?”

I laughed. “From that photographer you suspected of murder. You sat for a whole series in order to have plenty of time to converse with him and observe his reactions. You told him you were an actor and had me bring along changes of costume, stage make-up, and props - a skull and a riding crop. Surely you remember?”

On A03.

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Nearing the end now...

A few days ago, elmey issued an open invitation to post covers of seven books one loves - one cover a day for a week. There is to be no explanation or review, just the cover. With each cover one is to ask someone else to take up the challenge. Rather than tag folks who might not care to do this or have already done this, I, too, am issuing an open invitation to participate to anyone reading who would enjoy doing so!

A few days ago, elmey issued an open invitation to post covers of seven books one loves - one cover a day for a week. There is to be no explanations or reviews, just covers. With each cover one is to ask someone else to take up the challenge. Rather than tag folks who might not care to do this or have already done this, I, too, am issuing an open invitation to participate to anyone reading who would enjoy doing so!