Bee In My Bonnet

Eeeeeeeee. Tiny Holmes is so adorable! I want to adopt him and raise him and keep him forever.

I don't know why you don't draw kids - he looks wonderfully alive and impish and childish and yet he is still very much Holmes.

I am just going to squee quietly over here -->

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No, you don't! Just stop for a moment, take a deep breath and think about it. Holmes. In your house. As a teenager. Jesus H. Christ on a jumping pogo-stick, that is a form of torture the world is not yet prepared.

But, oh, thank you so very much! ♥ I suppose don't draw kids a lot because... I don't like them? I mean, I don't hate them, but I feel uncomfortable around them. I prefer mature men with ~issues~.

♥ ♥

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I suppose this is somewhere between the perverse and the insane, but as a teacher there could be no greater joy for me than to be able to have some part in the formative years of a mind like that of Sherlock Holmes. Because he is a goddamn genius and I would love to be able to direct that kind of thirst for knowledge. Besides he would make an excellent emo teenager with the whole "no-one understands me" and writing terrible poetry about sex and death thing. And his mess would go a long way to concealing mine.

Sadly he would probably have turned out to be a master criminal in my care, but these things are not to be helped.

I can understand being uncomfortable with kids. They can be downright difficult sometimes. It is still an awesome picture.

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Why doesn't there exist an AU in which Holmes' genius is leaning towards the criminal side of things?! No one would ever stand a chance of catching him! Not unless he wanted them to catch him, that is...

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There are half a dozen AU snippets on the kink meme where Holmes is a criminal, and part of me is certain there should be, somewhere, an epic AU that goes that way, however I have not yet come across it.

Watson could be the particularly cruel doctor-sidekick, who knows how to kill people quickly, or torture them as slowly as possible. Or perhaps the doctor-turned-detective trying to track him down, and there could be fo-yay.

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You know how I flailed so madly about the lack of movieverse bodice-ripper!fics? Well, now I flail just as madly for epic crime!AUs. WHERE ARE THEY?

Ffffff. Yes. Why not both? :D

Oh, I can just imagine it. Holmes did help the police in his early twenties but then grew so bored with it he decided to try his luck in the criminal career. Which... he excelled in and is now the most wanted criminal in Britain. He doesn't have a gang because he doesn't play well with others, but he has icily civil meetings with Moriarty over possibly poison-laced tea. Oh, and he has his own personal army of juvenile pickpocketers.
And for some reason or other, Watson gets dragged into this mess, and it starts out foe-yaytastic but at some point he starts working with Holmes? ~~Come on, help me develop this idea, you're so good at this! ♥~~

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YOU.

You are dragging me into this and why am I not resisting? This proves it, you know. You are Holmes, and somewhere along the line I have become the incredibly whipped Watson who hangs on to your every suggestion. I should be more concerned over this.

Ok so, yes. Poison-laced tea and crumpets with Moriarty. Oooh and, Watson starts out as a sort of genius coroner who solves crime in his spare time (have you seen Diagnosis: Murder? It would be like that). And then Holmes goes off on his crime spree, and whilst everyone knows it's him because he doesn't even try to hide it, there's never enough evidence and they'd never actually catch him anyway. Cue brother Mycroft (as played by Stephen Fry, in my mind) who is helping our intrepid doctor track Sherlock down but in his usual lazy way where he just sits around at his club and points out obscure little things as though they are the most obvious thing in the world in that MOST INFURIATING way that Holmes does but a hundred times worse. Watson is so absorbed by the case that his fiancee, Mary Morstan, leaves him because all they ever talk about is Holmes (perhaps with a scathing parting remark the Victorian equivalent of "If you like him so much, why don't you just marry him?" - I love Mary, just not when she is in the way of my boys).

Then Holmes kidnaps Watson, because he gets too close and at first Watson is like D:< but then he slowly realises that Holmes is amazing and whilst Holmes only kidnapped the good doctor to get him out of the way, he starts questioning himself as to why he can't kill him and then he realises it's because he respects him a lot. However I would have difficulty extracting Watson from proper British morality so it may have to end with grudging respect and UST. And MUCH FOE-YAY.

I don't even like AU's :(

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The fact that you aren't more concerned only provides further proof that you are becoming Watson. ♥ Wanna know a secret? I'm just as whipped as you are, you just don't know it yet.

Yes. Watson's this upstanding British gentleman with a fiancée and respectable doctor-y work, and life is going splendid. Then Holmes commits a crime which for some reason catches Watson's attention, and then he's lost. Lost. Have you seen Zodiac? That kind of lost; he becomes obsessed with this self-assured, so-called gentleman thief Sherlock Holmes. (Just like

zarah5 said.) He even seeks out Fry!Mycroft* and demands his co-operation. Watson drives everyone around him insane, from his long-suffering landlady Mrs Hudson to Inspector G Lestrade whom he just won't stop badger.

The kidnapping would be somewhat unplanned, though? Like, Watson has finally figured out enough to be at the right place at the right time, and Holmes sort of steal him as well for convenience's sake? And then everything turn Beauty & The Beast with Holmes keeping Watson prisoner and Watson being "Go to hell!" but at the same time so. Very. Curious. And Holmes is being he's most charming and fascinating and Watson is just a bit disconcerted by the fact that he stares at Holmes' chest a bit too much. And Holmes teaches Watson the science of crime and eventually drags Watson along on a "case". Watson protests vehemently but then learns that the thrill of theft is absolutely intoxicating and the gambler he thought he had buried long ago resurfaces in him.
~~All right, your turn. ::hands over baton::~~
* = I might just love you a little more for this. ♥

I'm not that fond of AUs either! :D
~~I might just be working on a mock-film poster for this. Might.~~

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&hearts

Oh, I want this. Why doesn't this exist yet? Like, right now, right here, on my screen?

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Because... Actually, I have no good reason for this. Why doesn't it exist?

I'm signing on to this project by offering ideas and very possibly illustrate it. Any takers? ♥ ~~Bribery is an underrated art form.~~

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I am tempted, oh. TEMPTED!!! But on the other hand, I think

ladylovelace's got it covered, and I currently very much have other epic fic on my plate, in which Holmes has gone missing and Mary died - and as it turns out, the accident was arranged by Moriarty, to lure Holmes back to Watson and England. And Watson is back to gambling and Holmes is back to drugs, and for all that they don't care about their own well-being, they very much care about the well-being of each other, so they turn to sex as a means to let off steam. And then the sex becomes more. And there's also Moriarty.

And, um. What was I trying to say?

Right. The above story is eating away at my agenda, so, uh. While I want to, I think this is better left to others. ~~Then again, epic addiction fic should be done in time to give me a shot at writing Big Bang.~~

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Yes, I read about that when I stalked your journal! :D Please, leave this mutating plot-bunny in my and

ladylovelace's hands ~~though you are of course more than welcome to contribute~~ and we'll do the best we can. Because your fic needs to be written and nothing should come in its way!

~~See how nice I am, speaking for someone else without their explicit consent. ♥~~

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