Buthal

Title: Buthal
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating: Teen (for mild slash, disturbing themes)
Word count: 21K +

Summary: Every story needs a good, old-fashioned villain. Every legend needs a hero.  Every fairy tale has magical curses. Every good adventure story has a man fighting a monster.
But monsters, like men, come in many shapes and many sizes, and it is not always easy to tell which is which.

Notes: Written for the Spook Me! Multi-Fandom Ficathon. I should have requested a prompt, I kind of hated the random one I got, but in the end I pushed myself to jump that prompt and take it down.
Dedicated to my betas, first red_adam for the nearly last second Brit picking.

And especially to my talented and imaginative Alpha-Beta alltoseek, who got me into the challenge, and then when the story grew quite giant in size, assisted like a champion in the birth.

Warnings: Fairy-tale tone of narrative. Mild references to suicide. Pseudo-cannibalism, if you consider giants as being other than human. Descriptions of violence, non-explicit torture.

 

( Buthal - Part One )

 

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Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four  / Appendices

Buthal - Part Two

Title: Buthal
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating: Teen (for mild slash, disturbing themes)
Word count: 21K +

Summary: Every story needs a good, old-fashioned villain. Every legend needs a hero.  Every fairy tale has magical curses. Every good adventure story has a man fighting a monster.

( Buthal - Part Two )

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Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four  /  Appendices 

Buthal - Part Three

Title: Buthal
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating: Teen (for mild slash, disturbing themes)
Word count: 21K +

Summary: Every story needs a good, old-fashioned villain. Every legend needs a hero. Every fairy tale has magical curses. Every good adventure story has a man fighting a monster.

But monsters, like men, come in many shapes and many sizes, and it is not always easy to tell which is which.

( Buthal - Part 3 )

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Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four  /  Appendices 

Buthal - Part Four

Title: Buthal
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating: Teen (for mild slash, disturbing themes)
Word count: 21K +

Summary: Every story needs a good, old-fashioned villain. Every legend needs a hero. Every fairy tale has magical curses. Every good adventure story has a man fighting a monster.

But monsters, like men, come in many shapes and many sizes, and it is not always easy to tell which is which.

( Buthal - Part Four )

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Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four  /  Appendices