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School-Aged John and Sherlock Fic Rec
Jun. 30th, 2012 02:08 pmTitle: School for Scandal
Author: Rubberbird
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Rating: Explicit
John Watson, the golden-boy captain of the school football team, and Sherlock Holmes, the icily quick-tongued outsider, are students in the same boys boarding school whose paths rarely cross outside of class. Although seemingly indifferent to everyone at the school, Sherlock battles a growing admiration for and lust-filled attraction to John, which is stoked when they are partnered on a long-term writing assignment for one of their classes. On his part, John's calm and easy-going exterior masks several long held secrets including an unhappy home-life, a desire to focus on academics instead of sports, and knowledge that he must hide his homosexuality from his teammates or risk his position on the football team and at school.
Sherlock is drawn much more sexually experienced than John, whose tendency to repress leads to conflict, hurt feelings, and some frustratingly hot UST. Mycroft features prominently in the 2nd third of the story and appears almost villainous in his manipulations of John and Sherlock, but this fades over time and especially once Moriarty appears in the final third of the story.
Both Sherlock and John alternately hurt and are hurt by the other, usually due to issues of raging immaturity, insecurity, and differences in communication. The close, cliquish and homophobic quarters of the school and the football team serve to exacerbate misunderstanding and reconciliation between the two as does the unfortunate relationship between John and his father.
The major limitation of this is that it's on ff.net. I hope very much that the author will eventually archive on Ao3 before the porn police come along and erase it.
Author: Rubberbird
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Rating: Explicit
John Watson, the golden-boy captain of the school football team, and Sherlock Holmes, the icily quick-tongued outsider, are students in the same boys boarding school whose paths rarely cross outside of class. Although seemingly indifferent to everyone at the school, Sherlock battles a growing admiration for and lust-filled attraction to John, which is stoked when they are partnered on a long-term writing assignment for one of their classes. On his part, John's calm and easy-going exterior masks several long held secrets including an unhappy home-life, a desire to focus on academics instead of sports, and knowledge that he must hide his homosexuality from his teammates or risk his position on the football team and at school.
Sherlock is drawn much more sexually experienced than John, whose tendency to repress leads to conflict, hurt feelings, and some frustratingly hot UST. Mycroft features prominently in the 2nd third of the story and appears almost villainous in his manipulations of John and Sherlock, but this fades over time and especially once Moriarty appears in the final third of the story.
Both Sherlock and John alternately hurt and are hurt by the other, usually due to issues of raging immaturity, insecurity, and differences in communication. The close, cliquish and homophobic quarters of the school and the football team serve to exacerbate misunderstanding and reconciliation between the two as does the unfortunate relationship between John and his father.
The major limitation of this is that it's on ff.net. I hope very much that the author will eventually archive on Ao3 before the porn police come along and erase it.
