The Red Window

For a prompt: "When Sherlock deems a case that a prospective client contacts him about beneath him, John (figuring that he’s seen Sherlock investigate enough cases to be able to do some amateur deducing himself) offers to take it on in his stead, hoping that it’ll help make him feel like he’s making a difference again. The client agrees. John investigates the case, and solves it. "

This is from late August of 2011, and I wrote it in a week. Despite its... unpolished style of prose and occasionally juvenile dialogue, it still holds a special place in my heart, since at the time I really wasn't sure if I could pull off a whole case fic. It's hardly the best thing I've written nor the longest, but it was probably the most intense and now the most fond.