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Filling Fest!

The Filling Fest Is Over. Thanks for everyone who participated!

Thanks to everyone who voted and shared their input. It really helped us figure out how things will go.

The fest will focus on prompts from Parts VI-VII (for those who want to fill prompts from the earlier days of the meme), and Parts XXIV-XXV (for those who want to revisit prompts from right after series two was aired. If you want to use the Filled Prompt Posts to browse through prompts, Part VI starts here, and Part XXIV starts here.

1. For the next three days, you can browse through those four parts and nominate prompts you’d like to see filled. Please include the full prompt and the link to the original prompt in your nomination. Those three days are for nominations only; don’t start posting your fills until this period is over.

2. After those three days, the nomination period will end and the filling period will begin. If you’re inspired by a nominated prompt, that’s great. If you prefer to look through those four parts and fill something that catches your eye, that’s great too. The filling period will last for two weeks.

3. All kinds of fills are welcome, as are multiple fills.

4. Anon posting is allowed, but not required.

5. Nominations without the link to the original prompt will be deleted. Same for nominations from parts other than VI, VII, XXIV and XXV.

6. Only post new fills that you haven’t posted anywhere before. If you have a WIP from one of those parts that’s gathering dust on your hard drive, it’s fine to post it, but only if you never started posting it.

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8. Please consider warning for triggery prompts (and also for fills, because some people read in flat view) and phrasing prompts in a manner that strives to be respectful. Things which you might want to consider warning for include: Rape/Non-Con, Death, Suicidal Thoughts, Self-Harm, Underage Relationships, among others.

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The filling period will end on Saturday May 19th around 20:00 GMT.
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(12:02) (23:02)
No, that’s not it.

(12:04) (23:04)
It was so familiar and domestic
that it hit me: if we’re already
behaving like an old couple,
what will it be like several years
down the road?

(12:06) (23:06)
While you were in Afghanistan,
a domestic relationship was a
distant dream, something that
would happen in the future.
With your injury, it has become
the present. Maybe you’re not
ready for that dream yet.
SH

(12:08) (23:08)
Maybe not.

(12:10) (23:10)
But what if I break up with
Sarah and, one year from now,
I realise it’s what I want? I’ll
hate myself.

(12:12) (23:12)
So you’ll just stay with her in
case you decide that you want
a boring relationship? It doesn’t
seem fair.
SH

(12:13) (23:13)
I know. I’m an arse, aren’t I?

(12:14) (23:14)
I mean it’s not fair to you.
SH

(12:15) (23:15)
Why remain trapped in
something you think you should
want, when you could get what
you actually need.
SH

(12:16) (23:16)
Oh, I see you’ve done your
research ;-)

(12:16) (23:16)
I have done no such thing.
SH

(12:18) (23:18)
Yeah you have, but don’t worry
I won’t tell!

(12:19) (23:19)
How many glasses of scotch?
SH

(12:20) (23:20)
Doesn’t matter.

(12:21) (23:21)
So, what do you think I need?

(12:22) (23:22)
You’re a grown man, John, you
should be able to figure it out
by yourself.
SH

(12:24) (23:24)
Maybe, but I’m curious to hear
what you have to say on the
subject.

(12:28) (23:28)
Ex-military doctor, bored out
of your mind by your job as a
GP, talking to a stranger
because you like the exciting
life he lives and the mysterious
cases he solves. I think your
life needs more excitement and
less domesticity.
SH

(12:28) (23:28)
You should also fold your own
socks.
SH

(12:29) (23:29)
And where do you think I could
find more excitement?

(12:31) (23:31)
Perhaps you should date a thief
or a serial murderer. That would
keep you on your toes.
SH

(12:32) (23:32)
Or you could continue sharing
your cases with me.

(12:32) (23:32)
I think that’s feasible.
SH

(12:33) (23:33)
Thanks, mate, I’ll hold you to
that.

(12:36) (23:36)
I should go back to our room,
maybe Sarah folded my pants
and got turned on in the
process.

(12:36) (23:36)
Seriously John, how many?
SH

(12:39) (23:39)
;-)

(12:39) (23:39)
It took you three minutes to
write that? Fine, you’re drunk.
SH

(12:39) (23:39)
;-)

(12:40) (23:40)
Stop winking at me!
SH

(12:44) (23:44)
;-)

(12:45) (23:45)
Good luck getting laid.
SH

April 20ht/April 21st
(22:16) (09:16)
That was unusually crude for
you.

(22:20) (09:20)
Says the man who was
complaining because he
couldn’t get his girlfriend to
have sex with him.
SH

(22:21) (09:21)
That’s not what it was about!

(22:21) (09:21)
And I wasn’t drunk, just a
little tipsy.

(22:21) (09:21)
You wink a lot when you’re
tipsy.
SH

(22:23) (09:23)
Have you ever noticed how
much more winking is done
over texts than in real life?

(22:23) (09:23)
I’ve never noticed. I will pay
more attention to that fact
from now on.
SH

(22:24) (09:24)
What happened yesterday?
Did you break up with her or
will you give domesticity a
chance?
SH

(22:26) (09:26)
I haven’t made up my mind
yet, but if I break up with
her, it won’t be on our trip. I
really don’t want to turn this
into the most awkward trip
ever.

(22:28) (09:28)
Sarah’s getting out of the
shower, I have to go. Thanks
for yesterday, it was good
talking with someone.

(22:29) (09:29)
You’re usually my sounding
board, it was only fair that
I reciprocated the favour.
SH

(22:29) (09:29)
Ta, have a nice day!

April 24th
(05:16) (16:16)
Hey, you!
Attachment: tunnelbeach.jpg

(05:20) (16:20)
Beautiful.
SH

(05:21) (16:21)
Thanks for the
recommendation,
it really is a wonderful place.

(05:22) (16:22)
I knew it would be interesting.
Did you visit any of the caves?
SH

(05:24) (16:24)
Attachment: creepycave1.jpg

(05:24) (16:24)
Attachment: creepycave2.jpg

(05:25) (16:25)
Attachment: supercreepycave.jpg

(05:27) (16:27)
Oh, the last one, it truly is a
thing of beauty.
SH

(05:28) (16:28)
Apparently William de Tracy hid
there after murdering Thomas
Becket.

(05:29) (16:29)
I bet he wasn’t the only one.
SH

(05:31) (16:31)
Now I see why you sent me
here.

(05:32) (16:32)
It was indeed my first
motivation, but the pictures
look beautiful.
SH

(05:33) (16:33)
It was a good call. It’s
gorgeous and I really love it.

(05:35) (16:35)
Where is Sarah this
afternoon?
SH

(05:36) (16:36)
Oh god, it’s afternoon.
Which means it’s the middle
of the night for you. I’m so,
so sorry.

(05:37) (16:37)
It’s fine. I wasn’t sleeping.
SH

(05:38) (16:38)
Still, I shouldn’t have texted
you at this hour.

(05:39) (16:39)
Consider it payback for the
time I woke you up at 4 in
the morning to talk about a
case.
SH

(05:41) (16:41)
So, girlfriend?
SH

(05:42) (16:42)
She had a headache, so she
stayed in the hotel.

(05:43) (16:43)
Are things better between
you two?
SH

(05:45) (16:45)
No. Yes. Maybe. I don’t
know.

(05:45) (16:45)
At least, that was clear.
SH

(05:48) (16:48)
I prefer not to think about
it. When I do, I tend to
change my mind. I’ve
changed my mind 12 times
since we talked about it.
It’s exhausting.

(05:50) (16:50)
Attachment: beach1.jpg

(05:50) (16:50)
Attachment: beach2.jpg

(05:53) (16:53)
I can see you trying to
distract me with beautiful
panoramas. You don’t have
to do that; if you don’t want
to talk about your
relationship, I won’t mention
it again.
SH

(05:54) (16:54)
Sharing those pictures with
you kind of feels like having
company.

(05:56) (16:56)
Oh. Go ahead, then.
SH

(05:58) (16:58)
Attachment: sheep.jpg

(05:59) (16:59)
No trip to New Zealand would
would be complete without a
healthy dose of sheep.
SH

(06:01) (17:01)
I would hate to disappoint.

(06:05) (17:05)
How long are you staying?
SH

(06:06) (17:06)
I want to see the sunset
before I return to the hotel.

(06:09) (17:09)
How trite.
SH

(06:11) (17:11)
I meant when are you going
back to London?
SH

(06:11) (17:11)
April 30th.

(06:12) (17:12)
Do you have a case? Is it
why you weren’t sleeping?

(06:16) (17:16)
No, I just couldn’t sleep.
SH

(06:17) (17:17)
Are you falling asleep now?
Is that why you’re taking
so long to reply?

(06:22) (17:22)
Maybe.
SH

(06:23) (17:23)
It was the sheep, wasn’t it?

(06:26) (17:26)
Probably.
SH

(06:28) (17:28)
Haha, I’m sorry I texted you
this early, have a nice night
(what’s left of it).
Attachment: sunset.jpg

(06:35) (17:35)
Goodnight John.
SH

April 29th
(10:46) (21:46)
I believe I have just solved
the most idiotic case of my
entire career.
SH

(10:50) (21:50)
This is John’s girlfriend.
John is in the shower at the
moment, can I give him a
message.

(10:50) (21:50)
No.
SH

May 1st
(16:22)
Sarah and I broke up.

(16:25)
Oh. Did you initiate it?
SH

(16:25)
She did.

(16:25)
Why?
SH

(16:27)
A few days ago, you texted
me to say you had solved
the stupidest case of your
career. Sarah answered.

(16:27)
Yes, I remember.
SH

(16:27)
She read our text history.
SH

(16:28)
She did.

(16:30)
She confronted me in the
plane, said she was
looking to settle down with
someone serious, and that
she was too old to wait
around for me to figure out
what I want.

(16:31)
I suppose you decided that
what you want isn’t what
you two had?
SH

(16:33)
I was still on the fence, but
I think breaking up was the
right thing to do, especially
after she read all those texts.
I was a complete bastard.

(16:33)
You were not.
SH

(16:34)
Are you trying to make me
feel better?

(16:34)
Is it working?
SH

(16:35)
A bit, yeah, thanks.

(16:36)
Maybe now you can forget
what you think you should
want and concentrate on
what you need.
SH

(16:39)
And apparently, what I need
are more of your cases. Do
you have the time to take my
mind off my relationship
failure by telling me what’s
the stupid case you solved?

(16:41)
This pawnbroker came to see
me. A few weeks earlier, his
assistant had urged him to
answer an add from The
Red-Headed League offering
work to red-headed applicants
only. He applied and he got
the job because apparently he
was the only one with genuine
red hair.
SH

(16:43)
The pawnbroker (Liam) was
offered over £330 a week to go
to an office a few hours every
night to copy some old
encyclopedias onto the computer.
One day, he arrived at the
office and found a sign on the
door saying The Red-Headed
League had been dissolved.
SH

(16:45)
Liam was angry to lose such
an easy income, so he found
the office’s landlord and went
to see him. The landlord had
never heard of The Red-
Headed League, but he did
have a red-headed tenant.
He gave Liam the number of
the joint implant business
where he worked.
SH

(16:46)
When Liam went there to
confront him, the tenant
pretended he had never seen
him. Then, Liam came to see
me.
SH

(16:48)
Intriguing. It doesn’t sound
that idiotic for now.

(16:48)
I’m not done.
SH

(16:50)
I went to the implant shop,
found the red-headed man
who had hired Liam, and
noticed he had unusually
dirty knees. I managed to
distract him, scrubbed off
some of that dirt, and
analysed it in Barts’ lab.
SH

(16:52)
The dirt came from the same
area as Liam’s shop, so that’s
where my investigation took
me next. I tapped the
pavement in front of the shop,
and that’s how I solved the
case.
SH

(16:55)
That can’t be it. What didn’t
you tell me?

(16:56)
Can’t you solve it from all the
clues I gave you?
SH

(16:58)
You know I can’t.

(17:00)
Fine. From the dirt on his
knees, I knew he had knelt
somewhere close to Liam’s
shop. There, I discovered
that the shop is right next
to a bank, which pretty
much told me everything I
needed to know.
SH

(17:02)
Tapping the pavement only
confirmed what I knew: The
Red-Headed League was an
excuse to keep Liam out of
his shop while his assistant
and the red-headed man
tried to dig in the basement
to get into the bank’s vault.
SH

(17:03)
Nope, I don’t believe you.

(17:04)
If I had decided to make up
a case to cheer you up. I
would have thought of
something much cleverer.
SH

(17:06)
Christ! I’m actually crying
here. Digging into a vault?!
What were they using,
spoons?

(17:07)
No, they had explosives.
That’s why they had to keep
Liam out of his shop.
SH

(17:09)
But he was still in his shop for
most of the day, right? Why
didn’t he notice the hole being
dug in his basement?

(17:10)
The basement was full of boxes,
so it was easy to cover that
whole area.
SH

(17:12)
What happened when you told
Liam?

(17:13)
He turned as red as his hair
and stormed out. I believe he
fired his assistant.
SH

(17:16)
At least he got some money
out of it. I still can’t believe
it, it’s hilarious and kind of
amazing. They deserve a
few points for originality!

(17:18)
The case was easy to solve, but
at least it amused me. I can’t
say the same for all criminals.
SH

(17:19)
Glad you were amused! I
wish I had been there to see
you work it out.

(17:24)
Hey, I have to go. My
sister just called and she’s
taking me out to dinner,
which never happens, so
she must have something
important to tell me.

(17:24)
I’ll talk to you later,
alright?

(17:25)
Have a nice dinner.
SH

(17:26)
If I meet a thief or a
murderer, I’ll give them
your phone number.
SH

(17:28)
Hahaha, ta!

Love it! Please keep going looonnngggg after the fest finshes because this is amazing.

I cannot believe I missed these updates!

Just because the fest is over doesn't mean you have to stop -- keeping going! This is fantastic!

STOP YELLING AT ME!
SH

I loled so much at that.

I'm loving this. I love text fics.

Hello? Have you been called to
another crime scene? Did someone
flash the consulting detective signal? lmao.

I love that they're starting to talk about personal stuff, and Sherlock's roundabout admissions that he likes talking to John. Looking forward to more :D

Don't worry, my plan is to keep going even if the fest is over.

I'm glad you want to be continue, because that's what I intend to do!

Thank you, I'm happy you're enjoying this!

I imagine John would find it easier to talk about personal stuff with someone who's not a therapist, who's not someone he knew before the war, and doing it while not face to face would probably help, too.

As for Sherlock, well, he prefers to text...

Still loving this! More, more! <3

Seriously, I think I'm more invested in their relationship than I have been in a fic for quite a while. I can't wait for them to meet!

More is currently being written, so hopefully the next part will be posted this week.

You're so nice, thank you, I'm a bit glad you're so involved in their relationship :-) I can't wait for them to meet, too, but it could take a while.

I'm horrified to hear that you were even thinking of stopping.
Please, please continue.

Stopping? Me? Never!!!

(Well, eventually, but I still have a lot of canon material to cover, and I can't stop where season 2 stopped, because that would break my heart)

Yeah, I plan to go on for a while ;-)

Please write more?

Aww! I appreciate the sentiment but I can't. That's the end. However, I am writing a sister piece to this about John writing Sherlock into existence. You can look forward to that if you stake out my journal and check every so often.

oh man I love this so freaking much. It's such a great twist on their normal relationship dynamic. Absolutely fabulous!

jesus tapdancing christ I have no idea how I'm going to be able to look at my machine tomorrow morning when I go into work

oh that was lovely

This is absolutely brilliant, no lies. Wonderful :)

Squee! I am glad you liked it :3

OMG funniest gif ever! XD

That was funny and touching. Looking forward to it continuing.

May 3rd
(12:04)
Have you heard about that
thing called the Itunes? They
have all sorts of music that
you can buy and listen to on
your computer. No need to
go to a music store, it’s
pretty amazing.

(12:07)
Yes, John, I know about it.
It’s actually called the
iTunes Music Store. iTunes
is the media platform.
SH

(12:07)
I used to think you were
close to my age, but now I’m
not sure. I’m thinking you
could be in your sixties.
SH

(12:08)
Oi!

(12:08)
Your typing speed, although
it has improved since we
started texting regularly, is
unbelievably slow, and you
don’t seem very good with
technology. Sixty, at least.
SH

(12:09)
I’m not sixty! I was a
surgeon in the army; I had
better things to do than
fiddle with a computer!

(12:09)
Oh fine, you’re not sixty.
SH

(12:11)
How old are you?
SH

(12:11)
Can’t you guess?

(12:12)
Isn’t it what I just did?
SH

(12:13)
How old are you?

(12:13)
You know my methods. Use
them.
SH

(12:15)
Alright.

(12:19)
I don’t have all day.
SH

(12:20)
What were you expecting?
A string of intelligent
deductions based on your
last few texts? I need to
observe, to study.

(12:26)
Well I won’t be able to guess
if you stop talking to me.

(12:28)
Have you bought anything on
the iTunes Music Store?
SH

(12:30)
I spent most of the morning
buying songs from some of
the composers you
mentioned the other day.
If you can really play those
pieces, you must be an
amazing violinist.

(12:30)
What did you buy?
SH

(12:33)
I started with this
Mendelssohn guy because
I love his Songs Without
Words. I got his Violin
Concerto in E Minor.

(12:33)
By whom?
SH

(12:33)
Janine Jansen.

(12:34)
I’m not surprised.
SH

(12:34)
Why not?

(12:35)
Woman on the cover. Showing
quite a lot of skin. Cuddling
her violin close to her chest.
SH

(12:35)
You like them pale, don’t you?
SH

(12:37)
A lot of skin? We can only see
her arms, grandad.

(12:37)
It’s an emotional performance.
Did you like it?
SH

(12:38)
Very much. Sarasate is also
nice, but a bit insane.

(12:39)
What do you mean?
SH

(12:41)
I can’t believe a person can
play his compositions.
They’re so fast and mad and
I can’t imagine someone’s
arm moving quick enough to
play those pieces.

(12:41)
It’s feasible with the proper
amount of concentration and
practice.
SH

(12:42)
Yeah, maybe.

(12:43)
I have a date tonight, and I’m
sure it will be great date music.

(12:43)
Do dates require their own
score?
SH

(12:44)
You come back from a nice
restaurant with someone, put
one of those Spanish Dances,
set the mood…

(12:44)
Really, John. Is dating the
only thing on your mind?
SH

(12:45)
Sorry, I forgot that dating
is a sensitive subject with
you.

(12:45)
It’s not a sensitive subject!
SH

(12:46)
Yeah it is, but it’s ok.

(12:47)
If you had a traumatic date
experience that you want
to talk about, you can talk
to me.

(12:48)
Of course that’s where your
simple mind goes first. I
didn’t have a traumatic date
experience, John.
SH

(12:48)
Fine, you didn’t. Just wanted
to say that you can talk to
me.

(12:49)
That won’t be necessary.
SH

(12:49)
Also, I have better things
to do than participate in this
ridiculous conversation.
SH

(12:50)
Fine.

(…)

(14:32)
Here’s my first guess for
your age: 5!

(…)

(20:22)
John, I need your medical
expertise.
SH

(20:23)
Now, preferably.
SH

(20:24)
If not now, then in the next
five minutes.
SH

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