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Every Heart that Loves with Truth by EdosianOrchids901 for septemberbells
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
25 Sep 2025
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“We had a private ceremony in the garden, attended only by the bees, the horses, and the stray dog that had turned up one day a few months ago and made the place his home. There was no exchange of rings, for our marriage must be a secret, but we clasped hands and vowed to remain with one another for the rest of our lives.”
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New Beginnings by EdosianOrchids901 for estelraca
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
22 Sep 2025
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Holmes and Watson hadn’t planned to get a cat.
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Mellowing Years by EdosianOrchids901 for septemberbells
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
22 Sep 2025
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“Although Holmes and I had been the closest of friends for many decades, he still struggled immensely to ask for help outright with such personal matters. I knew him too well, and loved him too much, to take any offense. He knew I would understand what was needed.”
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Sherlock Holmes & The Adventure of the Missing Daughter by Eruant_Alatariel
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
19 Sep 2025
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In 1912, nine years after Holmes' retirement, Watson receives a letter from a certain Miss Penelope Eagleton, whose sister has disappeared after an arranged meeting with the father. The young lady suspects the kidnapper to be the father himself and Holmes, intrigued, accepts the case. Soon after, however, the supposed kidnapper—who turns out to be not quite who the detective expected—reports his daughter as missing himself and it is now up to Holmes to find the missing daughter and to Miss Penelope Eagleton to help her beloved sister.
[This story is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's canon.]
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Deep Green Garden Paths by EdosianOrchids901 for septemberbells
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
17 Sep 2025
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Despite lingering illness, Holmes insists on a trip outside to visit the garden, bees, and horses.
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The Adventure of the Lighted Caves by EdosianOrchids901 for nununununu
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
13 Sep 2025
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Although Holmes and Watson are retired, they eagerly investigate reports of strange music and lights coming from the local Sussex caves.
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Attuned by EdosianOrchids901 for estelraca
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
12 Sep 2025
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Watson had never expected to remarry, but Holmes might have a surprise for him.
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To Do List by althusserarien (ArmchairElvis) for EdosianOrchids901
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
30 Aug 2025
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Watson has a productive day.
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To Dedicate Myself So Completely by EdosianOrchids901 for septemberbells
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
13 Aug 2025
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After retiring to Sussex, Holmes falls ill. Watson tends to him with care, but he can’t help fearing that Holmes will never recover.
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The Price of Indiscretion by Amypihcs
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
12 Aug 2025
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The tale of how Mr Holmes and Dr Watson decided to publish The Veiled Lodger.
Let's just say that our Good Doctor's introduction to the story speaks of a very aggravated man.
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Goodnight Watson by TheImprobableOne42
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
02 Aug 2025
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After many long and loving years of retirement, the story of Holmes and Watson comes to a close.
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Evening Clear by Snowfilly1
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Regeneration - Pat Barker
01 Aug 2025
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“I have never been Sherlock Holmes to see a man’s life and trade and secrets in the aspects of his appearance, but I have been a man in love for much of my life. I knew the softening of Owen’s voice, the caress he gave that German name.”
In which their retirement doesn’t outlast the War and John Watson comes across someone else who returned home from a war and fell in love.
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Patterns of Return by wordsandpics for Engazed, Silvergirl
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
06 Jun 2025
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House martins are agile migratory swallows that follow a fixed seasonal pattern: departing southern England each autumn and returning in spring to rebuild their nests beneath eaves and along cliffs. Their arrival and departure mark a quiet cycle — one of absence, return, and the traces left behind.
Told entirely through Sherlock Holmes’ one-sided emails over four years, this is a story of beekeeping, forensic decay, questionable jam, and emotional migration — of two men making their way back to one another, one season at a time.
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i'm the board, the lightning, the thunder by althusserarien (ArmchairElvis) for Vernets
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)
29 May 2025
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The Silk Stocking case is Holmes' last. After he retires to Sussex, Jenny knows better than her husband exactly what Sherlock Holmes needs.
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[Art] Retired, And Yet Not by VSquared (VThinksOn) for EdosianOrchids901
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
26 May 2025
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Holmes may be retired, but what's another little case?
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洋溢着温暖色彩的sweet sex
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O you and me at last, and us two only by many_a_mused_rhyme
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
04 Jan 2025
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Just off the cliffs of Sussex, bathed in sea air and surrounded by gently rippling grass, where only wanderers and stragglers think to go, sits a cottage.
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A sweet little snapshot of Sussex Downs retirement era Holmes and Watson! Can be read as platonic if you’re determined, but written with romantic intent (also this is my first time posting on AO3 so please be nice!) -
7. Smell of freshly baked goods by Amypihcs for Nuthatch_in_a_Nutshell
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
07 Oct 2024
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Cooking is an art, baking is a science.
Holmes is nothing if not a scientist, so he can try his hand at this!
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- Part 6 of cozytober 2024
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From Me To You by oorsprong
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone films), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
30 Aug 2024
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London, 1963, Sherlock Holmes walks into a record store.
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One whole layer of oysters by Amypihcs
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV)
29 Aug 2024
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Mr Sherlock Holmes has one weird obsession.
And no, I'm not talking of tobacco ash. This is the one thing he's forbidden to speak about. And if he does, there are consequences awaiting him!