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caffienekitty ([personal profile] caffienekitty) wrote2011-01-30 02:07 pm

Sherlock Fanfic: An Adventure in Knitwear

Title: An Adventure in Knitwear
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC 2010)
Disclaimer: The characters and their world do not belong to me and are not my creation.
Rating/Warnings: GEN/SQUINT. G. Abuse of knitting.
Word Count: 340
A/N: For this Prompt: "I just want something really awkward and fluffy."
Summary: It's the thought that counts.

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An Adventure in Knitwear
by CaffieneKitty
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The very first thing John noticed about the jumper was that it had three arms.

"Um. Sherlock, did you knit this yourself?"

"Yes." Sherlock scowled. "It's mathematically perfect. I don't know why it looks like that."

"Perhaps maths and knitting aren't compatible."

"Evidently." Sherlock sat on the sofa as though falling from a great height. "I should have gotten rid of it."

John brushed the soft blue-green garment. "No, of course you shouldn't have! This must have taken you ages to make."

"Wasted effort. I'm sorry to disappoint."

"Don't be ridiculous!" John smirked and pulled the jumper on. After a brief moment of disorientation, he poked his head through the correct hole to see Sherlock staring at him with a bemused smile.

"It looks ridiculous, John. If you are trying to preserve my feelings, I assure you, there's no need-"

"Of course there's need. It's my jumper, and I'm going to wear it." John selected the two most directly opposed sleeves and slid his arms into them, leaving the third dangling from the center of his chest. The body of the garment rolled loosely down halfway to his knees. "There. It fits."

Sherlock looked horrified. "You can't be serious?"

"I probably won't be parading around London in it, but yeah. It's warm, it fits well enough and you made it for me." John examined the central sleeve, which hung like an ingrown necktie. A necktie-cozy, maybe? "It's a Sherlock original design."

Sherlock snorted. "Original is the most charitable thing that can be said about that abomination."

"Here now! I'll not have you insulting my new jumper! And," John said with sudden inspiration, swinging the third arm up around his neck and tucking the cuff underneath the third sleeve's shoulder. "See? Built-in scarf, just like yours. Brilliant!"

Sherlock blinked, then chuckled, applauding slowly as he laughed. "Oh well done, John!"

John grinned. "Maybe maths and knitting aren't so incompatible after all."

"Perhaps not." Sherlock's eyes twinkled above his smirk.

"Now then," said John, feeling only slightly silly and wonderfully warm. "Tea?"

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(that's all)

[identity profile] shortcrust.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Naww, how sweet! :'D

Also, for some reason I assumed three arms meant three sets of arms, so six, and I gigglesnorted. xD

[identity profile] sorrelmae.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
This is FREAKIN'adorable! <3

[identity profile] rainmiser.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't often comment on things, but I found myself completely charmed by this and just had to say so. Well done! "Here now! I'll not have you insulting my new jumper!" HA! Oh John, how so adorable?

[identity profile] toggledog.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha ha gorgeous!
"It's a Sherlock original design" that made me lol

[identity profile] zephyr-macabee.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
If he had placed the third arm a bit lower it could have warmed another appendage. ;-)

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
oh this is utterly adorable *snuggles fic*
keladry_lupin: (John Cuddly Jumper)

[personal profile] keladry_lupin 2011-01-30 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
If John didn't want it, he could always give it to Zaphod Beeblebrox. But it's better that he does like it as it is, of course, and the third arm/scarf would come in handy on cold nights!

[identity profile] ungalad.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. ♥ This was adorable! :D Thanks for sharing! You really made my Sunday with this.

[identity profile] goldvermilion87.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
*snrk*

John is very nice not to take advantage of such a clear Sherlock-teasing opportunity.

(though I suppose actually wearing the thing does force Sherlock to see it...)

[identity profile] autumnatmidnite.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
D'awwwwww!!! Just adorable and made me squee repeatedly XD

Also, this line was effing fantastic:
"Sherlock sat on the sofa as though falling from a great height"

<3 <3 <3

[identity profile] ciaranbochna.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Warm is certainly the most important factor;)

[identity profile] imhit.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Hahaha. Aw!

[identity profile] sostrangechild.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Dawww, so cute! Loved it!

[identity profile] goldvermilion87.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Very true!

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