AU. Sherlock Holmes is an Oscar winning actor in a career slump, John Watson is an Everyman actor trapped in date movies. When they are cast as a gay couple in a new film, will they surprise each other? Will their on-screen romance become reality?

AU: having moved to san francisco a year and a half ago for her dream job, delphine never could have known that in less than eighteen months, she would find herself a grieving single parent, trying hard to deal with the death of her fiance while raising a three and a half year old. she finds out that she is not alone through the help of spirited librarian by the name of cosima.

On holiday with her father in the south of France, Cosima stumbles across the beautiful, scientific Delphine and they instantly have a connection. Cosima's convinced that she's found not only her intellectual equal, but the future mother of her children. Amazingly enough, so has her father - Delphine's mother.

The five times Sherlock was in a box, and the one time John crawled in after him. Some of the boxes may surprise you. Johnlock, fluff, smut.

Sherlock is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Warning: angst like whoa.