Title: Intemperance
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Pairing: John Watson/Mary Morstan; past Sherlock/OCs
Categories: AU, Friendship, Mpreg, Transgender
Length: Medium (17,800)
Warnings: Mpreg sort of;

Author on DW: basingstoke
Website: Basingstroke's Ao3

Summary: "Intemperance," a story from the secret journals of Doctor John H. Watson, intimate friend and long-time companion of the infamous Sherlock Holmes: A most curious and instructive report of the great man's improbable fecundation, gestation, and parturition.

Review: This fic starts out after Holmes discovers that he's become pregnant and can't bring himself to do anything but carry it to term. So he turns to the only Doctor he can trust with such a delicate matter. What follows is a story in which Dr. Watson gets an education, Mary is BAMF, and Holmes can't help but be a detective even when bedridden.

This fic deals a lot with matters of sodomy and being transgender during Victorian times. I can't say how accurate it is since I don't know much about that time period, but the narrative is believable and very true to the characters despite the differences in their lives from canon.

I was particularly impressed by how kept the language more Victorian in nature without bogging the story down with style.

Intemperance