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Title: The Progress of Sherlock Holmes
Author: ivyblossom
Pairing: Sherlock/John, John/Mary
Length: 62,006
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock is head over heels for John, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him. First-person present-tense series of short scenes from Sherlock's point of view, borrowing heavily from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. This is the chaptered version. It exists separately because I really did think I was writing a series for the first several thousand words. But it turned into a chaptered fic, hence, a chaptered version for readability.
Reccer's comments: This was, no question, the very first story I thought of when I heard this month's theme. ivyblossom captures Sherlock's POV in a way that is brilliant and unique and fascinating and riveting. And the story is heartwrenching and angsty in the most wonderful, glorious ways. 

Here's my horrible secret about this story: I am a hoarder of The Last Precious Thing. I will save the last Tim Tam. The last serving of ice cream. The last bottle of special release microbrew. Because there might be a day when I absolutely 100% NEED THAT THING, and if I consume it now, it won't be there later.

I have saved the last chapter of this story for MONTHS so that I have it for that perfect time when I absolutely, desperately need it.