Little by Little / by Fiendfyre (R)

Title: Little by Little
Author: Fiendfyre
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Genre: Slow-Build Romance
Pairing: Lestrade/Mycroft, Sherlock.John
Length: Medium (Words: 33,767)

Author's Summary:
He realised that some officers were able to maintain reasonably healthy relationships and remain on the force, but he had tried that. He was too intense, too passionate, to balance his life to the satisfaction of a partner, and when given the choice between a partner and his job he had chosen his job. Every time.

Review:
Lestrade, John, and Anthea are all BAMF and prove how BAMF they are to the Holmes brothers who had erroneously assumed that the solution to a mad genius supervillain had to be as complicated and convoluted as the evil plot he had in the works. Sometimes genius just gets in the way.

Little by Little (on AO3)

Night Shift / by corpsereviver2 (NC-17)

Title: Night Shift
Author: corpsereviver2
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Genre: Romance, Urban Fantasy, Vampire romance, casefic
Length: Medium (Words: 26,126)

Author's Summary:
Former army doctor John Watson is a daylighter, a specialist bodyguard for vampires. When he's hired to be the bodyguard for a vampire's younger brother - a vampire who doesn't fit the usual vampire stereotypes of lazy aristocrat in a remote manor or wealthy, indolent playboy - John is intrigued. To his surprise, Sherlock seems intrigued by him as well.

Review:
Vampire romance - actually pretty well written. Sherlock has a competence kink in this one and John is very competent (other than John, Sherlock is 'married to his work'). Even though it's mostly about vampires, Sherlock and John still solve crimes and the case featured here is entirely original, not canon rehash.

Night Shift (on AO3)