(Never) Turn Your Back to the Sea by DiscordantWords [AO3]

swissmissficrecs:

Word count:
39,971

Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Rosamund Mary “Rosie” Watson, Eurus Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Additional Tags: Season/Series 04, Post-Episode: s04e03 The Final Problem, Fix-It, Sherlock Is Not Okay, John Comes Home, eventually, Series 4 Fix-It, Grief/Mourning
Summary:

Baker Street is very much the same. Only different.

And Sherlock is just trying not to drown.

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Rec: Get ready to revel, wallow, and swoon because this is an amazing, amazing series 4 fixit. It takes all the grief and terribleness and lets it come out, not in anger but in love and healing. Eurus, Mary, Sherrinford, Victor, it’s all tackled unabashedly head-on, taking the most broken bits of series 4 and crafting a beautiful, deeply moving love story. But most of all it’s the unspeakable longing, the unspoken actions, the gestures small and grand, the delicately hesitant touches as Sherlock and John try to help each other without overstepping, both knowing what home means and what they want it to be (and who they want it with) but trying to be satisfied with the scraps they can get. With healthy doses of domesticity and parentlock, but also PTSD and unhealthy coping mechanisms, this is the “lost episode” that the fandom needs.

(Never) Turn Your Back to the Sea by DiscordantWords [AO3]