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The Phoenix and the Dove by professorfangirl (lizeckhart)
Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
3 Aug 2012
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“How bright he burns, John thinks, back from the dead. John can’t stop looking at him. He glows with his own impossible aliveness; he is limned in miracle, foxfire of the soul. Beside him John is small, and grey, and soft in his oatmeal jumper. He cannot possibly match this fire; his small self can’t be enough. He is almost invisible next to this great burning bird.”
The challenge: write a fic in an hour, with reference to one Shakespeare quote, with one sex act. The poem is about the Phoenix and the turtle dove, or the marriage of mind and heart, truth and beauty. But which is which?
"Sherlock has him by the shoulders, holding him before the mirror like a piece of very valuable evidence. 'Look at yourself, John,' he says. 'Really look.' Sherlock gives him a little shake, takes him by the chin, forces him to look at his reflection. 'Look, John,' his says in a voice gone wistful. 'See what I see. See with me a little.'"
And no, it didn’t take one hour, more like two and a half, but Jesus, you try to porn up an obscure Elizabethan allegory in an evening, for fuck’s sake.
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John learns his own beauty under Sherlock's hands.
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Finished
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Stunning and lush.