When you educate a woman ... you educate a generation.

Title: Inertia (i never promised you a poison garden)
Author: colebaltblue
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Holmes/Watson, Harold Stackhurst
Warnings: None.
Summary: Sherlock Holmes has moved to Sussex without a word. Months later John Watson is asked to a visit and after stumbling into something he never expected to see, they finally say something to each other that took them two-decades to be able to say. Obligatory they-finally-figure-it-out-in-Sussex fic.
Notes: Holmes's departure and Watson's second wife are heavily influenced by the Bert Coules radio dramas. The opening scene comes directly from The Creeping Man radio play - which I highly recommend you listen to if you haven't yet.

I saw this after this story was written and was in beta and somehow the incredibly brilliant and talented ireallyshouldbedrawing perfectly captured the image I was trying to create with words for this story. It's beautiful and I wanted to share it with you: http://ireallyshouldbedrawing.tumblr.com/image/76565590130.

MANY thanks to billiethepoet for the beta. for fixing my words and my plot, for talking through things with me and letting me know if something didn't work, or if it did. Thank you.

Read here here at AO3

( Here in my journal. )

Title: The Baker Street Home
Author: colebaltblue
Characters/Pairings:Sherlock Holmes/Mrs. Hudson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: none
Word Count: 5181
Summary: Sherlock Holmes was a young consulting detective. Mrs. Hudson was a slightly older sensible businesswoman. John Watson didn't see anything wrong with that.
Notes: Written for tweedisgood for holmestice summer 2013.

( The Baker Street Home )

Title: no laws are broken if we're all committing the same crime
Author: colebaltblue
Characters/Pairings:Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: Mature
Warnings: dub-con, drug use
Word Count: 4027
Summary: They say you have to hit rock bottom, wherever that may be, before you can begin healing. John Watson's rock bottom was their first year.
Notes: Written for mme_saberage for holmestice summer 2012.

( no laws are broken if we're all committing the same crime )

Title: Ghosts of Christmases Past
Author: colebaltblue
Characters/Pairings: Holmes, Watson
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Word Count: 2,000
Summary: Watson recalls ghosts and celebrates a holiday he's never much enjoyed with a man he barely knows.
Author’s Notes: Written for lyryk in holmestice as a thank you gift.

( It was my first Christmas returned home from Afghanistan. )

Title:A Study of Studies in Shades of Red
Author: colebaltblue
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Word Count: 5,000
Summary: A case, a kiss, a river called the Rubicon.
Author’s Notes: Written for lonely_hunter in holmestice. Thanks to the betas. This is a strange mash-up of canon and BBC. I hope it doesn’t offend...

( I have often presented my friend and companion in my writings as being sharp, quick-witted, and almost always able to solve a crime with barely more than a glance and almost inhumane ease )

Title: Victor
Author: colebaltblue
Pairing/Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Word Count: 1,300
Rating: PG
Warnings: no specific ones
Summary: When Sherlock Homles said “friend” to describe his skull, what did he mean when he said, “well, when I say friend...”
Author's Notes: Wholly unbetaed (at this point) and written for gracious_anne for Make Me a Monday for this prompt.

( It was nice to put a name with a face, so to speak. )