221B Recs

Title: One Week
Author: janeturenne
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Length: ~42,000
Author's summary: An average week in the life of Our Heroes becomes a battle of wills when the boys make a wager.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Non-explicit mention of masochism, exhibitionism, mention of bondage and threesomes, crossdressing, and fluff :).
Verse: Books
Reccer's comments: This fic totally blew me away!! It's probably a staple with H/W fans, but I can't *not* rec it!

I have to admit I almost stopped reading right at the beginning, because it's established-relationship fic, and usually I'm all about first times and delicious getting-together-scenarios. But for some reason I found myself keeping on reading and I just couldn't stop! It's one of those fics that could easily be made into a book - and if it was I'd buy it! It made me grin and squee and squirm in my seat, and when I finished it I basically wanted to start right back at the beginning.

Since I could never really do the writing justice in my rec, have an excerpt to hopefully further entice you!:

I paid no heed to his shameless ploy, but I cannot deny that I was intrigued. "Just what sort of test do you suggest?"

He glanced over his shoulder at me, that irritatingly alluring little smile still playing about his lips. "Oh, a very simple one, in my opinion. I propose that, beginning this very moment, we attempt, in the most literal sense of the phrase, to keep our hands off of each other-- no touching of any kind-- and that whichever of us is first to waver in his resolve must declare himself the man of weaker will. Of course, neither of us should like to see such a thing go on for too long, so perhaps we ought to put a clock on the thing... shall we say a week? At which point, if neither of us has weakened, we shall simply be forced to declare that we are both men of iron resolve, and leave it at that."

My personal highlight was definitely the chapter in which they visit the opera... I may never be able to listen to classical music again without thinking of it ^^.